Example sentences of "there [was/were] not much [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was not much evidence of regret among the writers who then decided to rewrite democratic theory in order to incorporate the central elitist proposition . |
| 2 | One woman ‘ decided to have a baby so I would n't be lonely in the house on my own and there was not much chance of me getting a job ’ . |
| 3 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 4 | There was not much hope of sending a note with a southbound traveller . |
| 5 | I touched my swollen lips and my ears and had a roll-call of my limbs , but apart from my hand , an incipient black eye and a few abrasions there was n't much evidence of my encounter with Russian free enterprise and Soviet cavalry . |
| 6 | She was saving up to go skiing the next January and she knew there was n't much chance of Adam repaying a loan by then . |
| 7 | He must have realised there was n't much chance of that when he saw where I was . |
| 8 | And Titan was way off her patch , there was n't much chance of a return load . |
| 9 | We also thought that if Iran , and its ally Syria , which controlled Lebanon , insisted on our release , there was n't much chance of our captors refusing to co-operate . |
| 10 | Still , I decided , there was n't much fear of Mrs Chapman accepting so insulting an offer . |