Example sentences of "[not/n't] [det] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | There 's not much support in the village apart from the non-stipendiary , Deaconess Tilley , who does half-time at the primary school and a bit in the parish if she feels like it . |
2 | Nobody working in the mill for they 'd not much to do in the mill . |
3 | Of course , by now , there was not much left in the way of cornflakes . |
4 | That 's one size stockings there 's not much left in the way of them now because most people you know do n't wear stockings , these are pop |
5 | Not much to eat in the snow beside the tracks , nor in the forests that would skirt the railway line . |
6 | they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past . |
7 | The speciality is much smaller and the leaders in the field are probably acknowledged by most if not all practising in the field . ) |
8 | To tell the truth , there ai n't much to do in the garden , but we go quite a lot anyhow . |
9 | It seems surprising , but there is n't much talk in the refuge about marriage or men . |
10 | Because there was n't much love in the house otherwise , from what I hear . ’ |
11 | and I once went in to collect some and erm , I think it was Mrs said oh good have you come to take them away or something like that cos there was , there were n't many left in the school so I |
12 | That 's why there ai n't many left in the country in n it ? |