Example sentences of "was not much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole thing was not much cop , from Billy Joel 's photocopy of ‘ All Shook Up ’ , Bryan Ferry 's comatose assault on ‘ Are You Lonesome Tonight ’ and a whole host of country dullards called Travis Tritt and Vince Gill doing drab versions of the usual suspect songs . |
| 2 | There was not much air : the roof heat persisted from the day . |
| 3 | There was not much choice about universities either . |
| 4 | It was not much fun , particularly at my age … |
| 5 | I struggled with a makeshift skipping rope and tried to do a few more press-ups each day ; it was not much fun . |
| 6 | It was not much preparation to take into a Test , but I was confident enough . ’ |
| 7 | In Macedon the ethnos or tribe was what mattered ; there was not much urbanization before the Peloponnesian War . |
| 8 | Actual violence as opposed to threat and intimidation was not much present in the English food riot . |
| 9 | Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police . |
| 10 | Conversely , there was not much high-mindedness that went unmixed with greed . |
| 11 | There was not much space . |
| 12 | When she got pregnant her social worker booked her into here , as there was not much space at her home and Barbara agreed that it was n't right that her mother should have her back with a baby as well . |
| 13 | Her mother thought it was better for her not to be at home as there was not much space , so the following week they saw the social worker and it was arranged that she go to a house run by the Catholic anti-abortion organisation LIFE . |
| 14 | He kept up a routine of a sort , but as , from a mixture of laziness and disapproval of political scribblers like Lloyd George and Churchill , he never wrote anything , and increasingly preferred sniffing old books to reading new ones , there was not much purpose to his life . |
| 15 | For example , there was not much sympathy for Erwin when his employer observed that he was ‘ clever but lazy ’ . |
| 16 | There was not much evidence of regret among the writers who then decided to rewrite democratic theory in order to incorporate the central elitist proposition . |
| 17 | Since England lost 3–0 and West Indies won 2–0 , there was not much doubt who was Top Team , though , having said that , West Indies then lost a very bad-tempered series in New Zealand , going down by one wicket in the only Test to see a result . |
| 18 | ‘ but after my talks with Wilkinson there was not much doubt — i have to play to be in line for a world-cup squad place . |
| 19 | M. Chaillot 's response included the information that there was not much money for new work in his budget . |
| 20 | There was not much hope of sending a note with a southbound traveller . |
| 21 | Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it . |
| 22 | One woman ‘ decided to have a baby so I would n't be lonely in the house on my own and there was not much chance of me getting a job ’ . |
| 23 | From his expression there was not much chance of speaking to him at all and she cast a wary look behind her to the door . |
| 24 | The polytechnic handbook which I used was not much help and my tutor has told me to ask the librarian for help . |
| 25 | Although there was not much probability in my case , the answer is that I wish I had . |
| 26 | In situations 1 – 3 there was not much difference between the Patois scores , but it was significantly lower than in the other two situations . |
| 27 | There was not much sale for that kind of thing at the time of Hilbert 's marriage . |
| 28 | There was not much time for that after the summer of 1946 , for in September I travelled north along the Welsh borders to join the RAF . |
| 29 | But there was not much time for rows because he was conducting the Halpern case which eventually sent three youths to prison for the torture and murder of a crippled old woman . |
| 30 | Apart from this there was not much trade between colonies . |