Example sentences of "[not/n't] much be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not much is made , however , in the book she has become , of the cultural provenance of this Russian-style belle dame sans merci . |
| 2 | Well , as you can see for yourself , not much is happening out there as yet . |
| 3 | Again , not much is known , but it is thought they were probably pets or purely working dogs . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's loads of talent out there amongst ethnic minorities , but not much is being utilised . |
| 5 | But the rate of loss of forest threatens to outstrip any of this basic work , and practical plans are hampered by the fact that until recently the birds have simply not been very well studied : not much is known about them . |
| 6 | For anyone who regards language as the canonical form of human communication , the answer would probably be ‘ Not much is left over ’ and the residue , such as it is , is either a redundant supplement to words — something which the telephone shows we can do without — or else a sadly impoverished alternative which we are sometimes compelled to use when circumstances make the ordinary use of words awkward or impossible . |
| 7 | That is the situation where the relief is most likely to be needed and if it excluded not much is left . |
| 8 | If not much is known about the properties of operators which could act on N and its children , then the plan may be misleading . |
| 9 | Not much is known of Joseph Nettlefold 's personality . |
| 10 | Not much is to be gained by unison doubling except in passages where the G string is in use . |
| 11 | In the context of Irish rural society in this century , not much is known about who inherits what , and the possible implications for family conflict and solidarity . |
| 12 | Yet when they started out few people in Britain had ever heard of them and even now not much is known about their ideas on marketing and how they put them into effect . |
| 13 | Not much is known about the political attitudes of unemployed people . |
| 14 | Not much is known about the course of the Council , although there are two surviving eye-witness accounts , one of which describes all the razzmatazz of a great occasion — crowds , the pope on a dais , festivities , the day-long ceremony of the re-dedication of St Maria in Trastevere , the processions with flags , flares and lights . |
| 15 | A Bank spokesman claims that " not much is known about the relationship between macroeconomic measures and environmental impact . " |
| 16 | That 's not much is it ? |
| 17 | Not much is it ? |
| 18 | It 's not much is it ? |
| 19 | well it 's not much is it a pound ? |
| 20 | Oh well that 's not much is it ! |
| 21 | That 's not much is it ? |
| 22 | That 's not much is it ? |
| 23 | For Erlich not much was allowed to get in the way of a job and he supposed that was why he had been sent . |
| 24 | This year 's theme , in the year of the Columbus commemorations , presented some dealers with difficulties , but , as one observed , ‘ Strictly speaking , not much was American in patronage before 1776 , so we may be excused for stretching the definition ’ . |
| 25 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 26 | Not much was known about them , and no Yek had ever visited them — the Yek were not keen sailors — it was not even certain that they were inhabited . |
| 27 | At the time that Alpher , Bethe , and Gamow wrote their paper , not much was known about the nuclear reactions of protons and neutrons . |
| 28 | After their lunch ( so called , but not much was eaten ) , she went shopping , met a friend to discuss future work plans and finally went home . |
| 29 | She was sitting in a very old overstuffed leather sofa and hiding a notebook behind her large handbag because she was n't sure notebooks were allowed in the club ; not much was . |
| 30 | Not much was known about its owner at the time , he was called Colin French . |