Example sentences of "not much " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not much fun , particularly at my age … |
| 2 | Not much is made , however , in the book she has become , of the cultural provenance of this Russian-style belle dame sans merci . |
| 3 | There is not much time for academic work , though some courses include lectures on theatre history . |
| 4 | It 's not much use thinking of the voice without the body , even though each is the subject of a separate training class . |
| 5 | Otherwise you could have seen the garden , although there 's not much to look at at this time of the year . ’ |
| 6 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps the glider is theoretically just within range for a straight glide home , but has very little extra height in hand and not much prospect of getting another climb . |
| 8 | Easy on the whisky — there is not much left after the great crack we had at the McLaggans ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Not much choice , have I ? |
| 10 | This is not much help because ( a ) later-developing concepts must still on the representational theory of the mind be present in these primitive concepts ( there are no merely potential competences such as my potential but non-existing competence to know Portuguese ) ; and ( b ) how and where do we draw the line between the primitive concepts and the developed ones ? |
| 11 | Zina Garrison , the beaten Wimbledon finalist last summer , lost in the first round , but not much of consequence occurred until Sanchez-Vicario toppled Mary Joe Fernandez in the quarter finals — and then came the heavy matches . |
| 12 | Alas , it was said to have been of not much practical value . |
| 13 | In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made . |
| 14 | If , after that , you ca n't get it to live amicably in a domestic situation , there is not much hope left , although Graham stressed he has had some success with temperament improvements by castrating the males . |
| 15 | Not much of a scholar . |
| 16 | In fact , the idea lends itself to fabrication as a single IC- clock distribution is not much of a problem , because of the insensitivity to DC level , and transistor count is low , because each of the switches is formed by a single igfet , rather than , for instance , several mesfets . |
| 17 | It may seem that when Bunting speaks of ‘ the beautiful step of the verse , he is gesturing into a void not much less than Allen Tate when he wrote of the ‘ rhythm ’ and the ‘ movement ’ of Eliot 's ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ . |
| 18 | Dorothy Shakespear , one sometimes feels , was not much less imprisoned than Elizabeth Barrett had been , and in not much less need of a poet-errant to liberate her . |
| 19 | Not much of a claim , more than a year after he started trying to turn the tide ; and one yet to be proven , anyway . |
| 20 | The cost of providing the start-up equipment is in the order of £10,000 and Mr Dobbs thinks space is not much of a problem : ‘ There 's usually the village hall or an empty shop . ’ |
| 21 | Not much flavour , but a fibrous-to-spongy chewiness which sets it apart from the average savoury snack . |
| 22 | But not much of one . |
| 23 | Varese as well as Ives , and an Elliott Carter premiere — not much feminine sensibility there , though it all made for a classic Oliver Knussen pile-up of Americana , topped out with a violin concerto by Marc Neikrug that Pinchas Zukerman had brought to London for the first time . |
| 24 | ‘ And if we ca n't fully enjoy the place there 's not much point in keeping it . |
| 25 | Once LIN has gone there is not much left on the open market . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're at pains to stress this is n't a protest , but we were here for rest and recreation , ’ he said , ‘ so if I ca n't send my men ashore ; there 's not much point in staying . ’ |
| 27 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 28 | Built by Colla MacDonnell in the sixteenth century , it clings to a narrow promontory , and although there is not much left of the castle itself , its magnificent position is worth the long haul back up the cliff path . |
| 29 | There 's not much else you can do , like , if a law 's not being broken you ca n't do anything . |
| 30 | ‘ Not much of a rest for them in here , ’ I remarked , as a mortar bomb burst close by in the orchard , causing the barn to shake a load of debris from the rafters , covering everyone below in pigeon and probably hen shit . |