Example sentences of "was [not/n't] much [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the standards of today it was not much of a school . |
| 2 | And Jeannie , I remember Jeannie well and wrote to her for a while , but she was not much of a correspondent . ’ |
| 3 | This was not much of a promise , and Acheson himself was coming to the view that the British deserved some further reassurance . |
| 4 | It was not much of a choice . |
| 5 | This was not much of a party . |
| 6 | In the end , he only emphasised what everyone had long suspected that there was not much of a difference between the winner of the championship and those languishing in the back seats . |
| 7 | Of course , in her father 's estimation , it was not much of a house , a warren of smallish rooms was how he saw it , and set in a damp situation on the side of a river valley . |
| 8 | It was not much of a town — hardly more than a village . |
| 9 | In fact there was not much of a feeling that anyone was on my case at all . |
| 10 | He was not much of a prospect . |
| 11 | Long afterwards , Rossetti , who was not much of a smoke , got out the box of cigars he had not touched since that dinner . |
| 12 | She was n't much of a drinker either — did n't even particularly like the taste of alcohol , but she 'd have to look on it as a necessary medicine . |
| 13 | It was n't much of a choice . |
| 14 | One bobby said yesterday : ‘ It was n't much of a choice . |
| 15 | If so , it was n't much of a success . ’ |
| 16 | There was n't much of a story . |
| 17 | It was n't much of a fall , just one of those nippy little sprinklings that come early in the winter to make it absolutely clear that it is , well , the winter . |
| 18 | Things did n't grow very well in it because it was in shadow and Patsy was n't much of a gardener , but it was her own , and nobody ever touched it , any more than they ever went into her room . |
| 19 | Frankly , it was n't much of a sacrifice . |
| 20 | ‘ It was n't much of a waterfall either , ’ said Betty . |
| 21 | It was n't much of a smile , but it did have a faintly superior tinge to it and Lydia began to feel better . |
| 22 | It was n't much of a concession , but suddenly Robbie stopped feeling sorry for herself . |
| 23 | She was only nine years old and she was n't much of a size for that , but everybody knew that Viktor was harmless . |
| 24 | It was n't , it was n't much of a subject when I was young , is it , is it a necessary part of the school curriculum ? |
| 25 | They were n't doing anything illegal and I was n't much of a fighter any more by then : I suppose I just caved in . |
| 26 | There was n't much of a home life in that time . |
| 27 | It was n't much of a race , more like being on a training run with a 1000-odd friends . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't much of a marriage . |
| 29 | ‘ It was n't much of a marriage , you know , ’ he said after a while . |
| 30 | Billy Norfolk was a nice enough bloke , but it was n't much of a marriage . |