Example sentences of "it be not much use " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not much use arriving somewhere at ten in the morning clutching the collected works under your arm and wishing you had a wig and been born thirty years earlier in order to play Lear — or for that matter the Duke of Gloucester . |
| 2 | After all , it 's not much use being fingered as someone who 's going places if there 's nowhere to go . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not much used these days , but I think you 'll find it comfortable for your purposes . |
| 4 | Evidently it is not much use replacing existential propositions with their properly quantified " canonical " paraphrases , if the concept of existential quantification itself gives rise to obscurities and can not be made sufficiently precise . |
| 5 | It is not much use improving the number and quality of the prison buildings if the prison management does not also improve . |
| 6 | So if you were on night duty , it was n't much use getting off early and going to bed for a couple of hours and then going to court — you might be engaged in court for a long time . |
| 7 | The picture that emerged was unflattering ; but it was n't much use to an aspiring blackmailer . |
| 8 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |