Example sentences of "be not much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All them little starry lights that comes out at night , well , they 're not much help , are they ? |
| 2 | ‘ Goodness knows you 're not much company . |
| 3 | They 're not much cop when they can open their legs like that . |
| 4 | So you 're really , in a way , you 're not much difference than where you started . |
| 5 | The diary and what Tolby said Newley said are n't much use . |
| 6 | ‘ I rang the college , but they were n't much help . |
| 7 | The older women were kindly souls , as maternal as their husbands were ruthless murderers , but honestly they were n't much fun for Mrs Goreng . |
| 8 | were n't much cop ! |
| 9 | There is not much sign of peasant migrants escaping seigneurial control altogether . |
| 10 | Ken Collins , MEP , says that there is not much evidence to show that compliance with legislation is improving , partly because there is little information to indicate what the state of the environment actually is . |
| 11 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 12 | However , he added , ‘ there is not much evidence that we will bounce back out ’ . |
| 13 | There is not much evidence for active hellenization outside old Greek centres like Halikarnassus , Smyrna and Ephesus ; though some progress is made at inland Anatolian sites like Etrim ( the Syangela of the Athenian Tribute Lists , later hellenized as ‘ Theangela ’ ) : objects like a Panathenaic amphora made in Athens c.420 , and red-figure pottery , attest the same penetration of Greek influence . |
| 14 | However , there is not much evidence of this judicial activity in the landscape before the Middle Ages , although it must have been there and some places were obviously more significant than others in its instigation . |
| 15 | There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable . |
| 16 | Summing up : there is not much chance of an artist from one member state receiving subsidies from another . |
| 17 | Unless we can use our intelligence to control our aggression , there is not much chance for the human race . |
| 18 | There is a controversy going on in America at the moment because President Bush has decided to cut his military arsenal which means that many people working would lose their jobs , and because of the recession there is not much chance of them getting other jobs . |
| 19 | R is difficult when you are at work all week , to find the time and it is not much fun spending your only free time cleaning . |
| 20 | Militarily , there is not much Russians should fear in a neutral Hungary . |
| 21 | But there is not much excitement in people 's lives and there is no difference to the reaction to pop stars like Madonna or Michael Jackson . |
| 22 | QUOTE : THERE IS not much petrol left in the tank . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | Recent history is not much help , either . |
| 25 | Even the most powerful cannon is not much use if its crew has been squashed by a boulder . |
| 26 | Although there is not much use of frequencies above 20GHz , below 15GHz there is intensive use of traditional fixed service frequency bands . |
| 27 | Designing elegant systems in the abstract is not much use . |
| 28 | Tinkering is not much use . |
| 29 | Conversely , he does not design a dresser like Mrs Barton 's , a genuine piece of working-class furniture , but substitutes a sideboard for a neat cottage ‘ in which there is not much room ’ ( Fig. 41c ) . |
| 30 | There is not much time for academic work , though some courses include lectures on theatre history . |