Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] make much " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |
| 2 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 3 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 4 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 5 | And to be quite truthful with you , this morning did not make much difference either . |
| 6 | Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress . |
| 7 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 8 | However , these did not make much difference as the largest families tended to be the poorest families who paid little in the way of direct tax . |
| 9 | This methodological problem generates a crucial theoretical problem since , as Lienhardt demonstrates , whatever formal ‘ grammatical ’ features a language may exhibit , they do not make much ‘ sense ’ apart from the context in which they are used . |
| 10 | Late twenties perhaps , but did n't make much of an effort . |
| 11 | I did n't make much of this but Mrs Smith 's daughter was a friend of mine . |
| 12 | And he er and he was really delighted of course , so he said , Well I 'm holiday and I 'll come round with the caravan , so I had my holiday which did n't make much difference because there was had to you know we were n't working really , and I went round with him for this week , all round and the villages everywhere . |
| 13 | It did n't make much of a difference . |
| 14 | But from a tactical standpoint , it did n't make much sense ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 492 ) . |
| 15 | Actually , the reports concerned various research grants won by Professor Bamforth and though the reason for the grants was there in black and white , it did n't make much sense to me . |
| 16 | It did n't make much of the singular individual draped upon the low bench beneath the window . |
| 17 | I did n't make much sense to me and I was n't sure what we decided to do and erm you know I think it 's slightly inaccurate , but never mind . |
| 18 | I 'm fed up , I do n't make much dirt so why have I got to spend my life cleaning up other people 's ? |
| 19 | I might try to read , but the words often do n't make much sense ! ’ |
| 20 | Another man commented that ‘ Kings and Queens do n't make much difference when it comes to wars and so on . |
| 21 | Some of them do n't make much sense . |
| 22 | They work for a living and do n't make much money . |
| 23 | They do n't make much money at it though . |
| 24 | Bowls is a sport that they do n't make much money . |
| 25 | However , to say that one bank , or one wind direction , is always better than another does not make much sense . |
| 26 | She may find new capabilities in herself and her present machine , advanced technology does not make much difference to the finished result and costs a lot . |
| 27 | Of course , they may not accept the beliefs , attitudes , or intentions that are expressed ; one can always object to what somebody else says , but it does not make much sense to do this unless one understands its meaning . |
| 28 | As usual , one of these aspects of life does not make much sense without the other . |
| 29 | This uncertainty is not so important at the present time , when things are far apart , so that a small uncertainty in position does not make much difference . |
| 30 | Non-career golfing ladies still comprise a majority of lady members and it probably does not make much practical difference to them not to be able to play on a Saturday or Sunday morning since they have access to the courses at all other times . |