Example sentences of "it be not [adv] 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 | Mm , well it 's not quite using my shoulder a bit , she does her press ups put her on her stomach , , mm . |
| 5 | Since the negative passive construction with the to infinitive would imply that the non-occurrence of the infinitive event was being inferred and asserted from the absence of perception , it is not normally used by speakers of English . |
| 6 | It is not normally used between two complete sentences ( where a semicolon or colon is used instead ) , but is used to separate off various supplementary things in a sentence . |
| 7 | It is not widely used for research outside the military because of the cost of high fidelity simulator time . |
| 8 | Although social class is one of the census categories ( see Chapter 2 ) , it is not widely used in the publication of official statistics on education . |
| 9 | The blue-flowered garden species of this genus ( N. x faassenii ) , also called catmint , is highly decorative , with its grey leaves and long-lasting flower spikes , but N. cataria is the true herb , of little known but considerable medical use , for which it has a long history , back to Gerard 's day and earlier , though it is not so used nowadays . |
| 10 | There is a smaller bedroom and a tiny , suspiciously tidy kitchen , which looks as if it is not often used . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is not much use improving the number and quality of the prison buildings if the prison management does not also improve . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The picture that emerged was unflattering ; but it was n't much use to an aspiring blackmailer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This was intended to equip a shipyard near Southampton where Bentham built six small vessels of experimental design for the Royal Navy , but it was not actually used there . |
| 17 | Staff were thus subject to military law and discipline ( Sartorius 1976 ) and the threat of militarization hung over them , although it was not actually used during the Franco period . |
| 18 | It was not only used as a condiment , but was also the chief preservative of a large range of foodstuffs such as meat and fish , and in the preparation of skins and leather . |