Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] much [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of the 12 to act in concert does not give much ground for optimism . |
| 2 | The history of attempts to control and regulate corporate crimes does not give much cause for optimism , and indeed the idea of it reduces radicals to knowing laughter . |
| 3 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 4 | But she did n't have to ask : Comrade Andrew did not have much time for Jasper . |
| 5 | However , the author does not leave much room for ambiguity . |
| 6 | Life as a lawyer in Kingston did not allow much leisure for hairdressing . |
| 7 | AS well as the Bird feat , Durham 's 1958 annual report ( ’ the content does n't give much cause for satisfaction , ’ it stated ) records the emergence of a promising young batsman called Colin Milburn in the Durham Public Schools side . |
| 8 | I have n't got much time for Egon Ronay . |
| 9 | She said if he ca n't come out to the children And he has good as told her that he had n't got much time for children , visiting children . |
| 10 | What with one thing and another she had n't had much time for sleep last night . |
| 11 | Mark , 43 , did n't have much time for Jane , either . |
| 12 | I really did n't have much time for school . |
| 13 | He did n't have much time for politicians as a breed . |
| 14 | She did n't have much time for Grandad 's artistic flair . |
| 15 | But Karen did n't have much use for tradition . |
| 16 | Would n't have much room for sweetpeas though would I ? |
| 17 | That does n't leave much margin for error . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't get much time for reading , ’ said Wilcox , ‘ but I 've a rough idea what he was about . |
| 19 | He does n't get much time for reflection , and when he does he tends to get depressed . |
| 20 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 21 | Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters . |
| 22 | So sex and the capacity to evolve rapidly is a property of the species , not of an individual erm and consequently once can visualize erm species selection being responsible for it 's evolution , so I do n't actually have much taste for species selection . |