Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Diana seemed destined for a life of unskilled , low-paying jobs , she was not that much out of the ordinary for girls of her class and background . |
| 2 | The princely sum of one guinea a month was agreed on , and though it was not as much as Beth would have liked , it was a welcome increase , and one that positively staggered her disbelieving husband . |
| 3 | It showed that gravitational collapse was not as much of a dead end as it had appeared to be . |
| 4 | In fact , luck was with me as there was not as much damage as I thought . |
| 5 | In the same day we went to Oulton board to do the same thing but in freezing cold water that was not as much fun as the survival tank . |
| 6 | If coal was just another industry or a medium-sized company in the private sector whose product was not as much in demand as previously , or had been superseded by another product that it could not make or compete with it , that industry or company would slim down or might even close altogether — with the same tragic effect on families and communities as has been seen in the coal industry . |
| 7 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 8 | The Grail Castle was not entirely in darkness when Grainne slipped out of her room and closed the door carefully , but there was not very much light . |
| 9 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 10 | She was not very much surprised to see him on his feet and opening the door , but when he swayed and put a hand on the wall to steady himself she was unable to prevent her own hand going out towards him . |
| 11 | Well the the idea of farming was much the same but he certainly was not very much of a farmer . |
| 12 | This was not too much of a problem with a 1200-mm tube filled with argon . |
| 13 | But the records suggest that the hard school of child rearing prevailed , at least to the extent that there was not too much sympathy for youngsters who were not entirely happy with their foster parents . |
| 14 | In travelling around Australia I soon found out there was not too much of my kind of thing — little enough that feel within my category of the picturesque . |
| 15 | Often it has seemed that there was not too much difference between the major parties . |
| 16 | Those present claimed there was not too much natural turn in the pitch to help him . |
| 17 | The fine town church , the Rathaus ( town hall ) , confident-looking houses with well proportioned facades and artistically modelled gables all date from this period and proclaim that money was not too much of a problem to the burghers , who were steadily becoming more wealthy . |
| 18 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 19 | Constant change was worse still ; in the words of one satirist , the scandal of the player was not so much that he disguised his real self in playing ; rather he had no self apart from that which he was playing : ‘ The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledge him a Rogue and errant , tor his chiefe essence is , A daily Counterfeit … |
| 20 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 21 | Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse . |
| 22 | Under cover of buying a magazine from the stall opposite , Isabel glanced over , and then stared more persistently , for he had not seen her , was not so much as looking up from his counting . |
| 23 | The criterion for admission was not so much that traditions vindicated an apostolic authorship as that the content of the books was in line with the apostolic proclamation received by the second-century churches . |
| 24 | His attack was not so much on ‘ Gothic ’ decorations but on the cruciform pattern with columns , aisles and a chancel . |
| 25 | My problem in Dalmellington was not so much getting a drink , but in actually devising a means of drinking it . |
| 26 | Perhaps it was not so much disaster as disappointment . |
| 27 | In order not to seem too dictatorial , and perhaps to conform with some grass-roots grocer-Tory image , ministers have sometimes spoken as if their aim was not so much to take powers to themselves ( and thus away from Local Authorities ) as to give powers to parents . |
| 28 | Now that she had taken the first steps , she was not so much afraid . |
| 29 | With boys in unskilled employment , the intention was not so much to impart skills , ‘ as to retain [ them ] at an impressionable age and to mould and discipline their character ’ , and in such cases specialization or technical training would be out of place . |
| 30 | The father of the family was not so much concerned about his daughter as about the ‘ Acts of Unity ’ he himself was ordered to perform on the temple 's Altar of Initiation . |