Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] does not [vb infin] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jura are the closest mountains across the Channel and it does n't cost much to reach them . |
| 2 | You keep your teeth for life and it does n't take much to work towards this goal — just follow the advice given in this leaflet . |
| 3 | Otherwise , for a jingle of coin we can do you a selection of gory romances , full o fine cadence and corpses , pirated from the Italian ; and it does n't take much to make a jingle — even a single coin has music in it . |
| 4 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 5 | Appendages in the ‘ head ’ region often include powerful claws , and it does not take much imagination to conclude that these eurypterids were among the fiercest predators of their day . |
| 6 | And it does not take much for this dis-ease of the self to become disease of the body . |
| 7 | In other words , publishing commitments have to be substantial and it does not take much to sap confidence when the risk is so high . |
| 8 | To make the book come even more to life , the author introduces hypothetical characters , the Sportsman , the Visitor and the Engineer , and it does not take much imagination to think of their behaviour in driving or road design . |
| 9 | But she does n't watch much television as she is too restless . |
| 10 | Yeah erm but she does n't put much on though . |
| 11 | will ultimately apply utilitarian standard , but he does n't make much of it here and he relies on a much more intuitive idea of what manage things well and he assumes that different branches of government will have different standards of success and that we will be able to tell pretty much whether they 're doing well or badly . |
| 12 | But he does n't do much |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Symbolically , it was a significant moment , but it does n't go much beyond symbolism . |
| 15 | It is actually distilled from oil , and it 's a fairly heavy liquid , and it 's , to be honest not inert , but it does n't do much . |
| 16 | Watching the happy , milling crowd at the conference , one Tory MP muttered : ‘ It 's a good tribal rite , but it does n't have much to do with reality . ’ |
| 17 | The idea that one could go right round the universe and end up where one started makes good science fiction , but it does n't have much practical significance , because it can be shown that the universe would recollapse to zero size before one could get round . |
| 18 | But it does n't take much to draw a smile from him , and almost everything in the country — especially its people — provides material for his humour . |