Example sentences of "[verb] not [vb pp] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ France has not seen many large equity issues recently , ’ said Fred Bombrum , French equities analyst at stockbroker Hoare Govett . |
| 2 | Observational surveys by Tombaugh , Kowal and the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ) would almost certainly have revealed another Pluto or larger planet , but their failure to do so has not stopped many predictions from being made , including two more in just the past year . |
| 3 | The union 's promise that no Irish team will be allowed to go to South Africa ‘ whilst the remainder of the apartheid laws exist ’ has not convinced many people , while drawing the wrath of their recent hosts down about the heads of Dawson and his fellow-travellers . |
| 4 | Jane Postlethwaite has n't met many Egyptian women . |
| 5 | Taylor said : ‘ Trevor has n't played many games and neither have Rob Jones , of Liverpool , Everton 's Martin Keown and David Hirst , of Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 6 | NIGEL MANSELL is no Robert Redford lookalike — but then the film star has n't won many Grand Prix races ! |
| 7 | Apart from her golf , she has n't got many interests . |
| 8 | But she has n't got many sort of major |
| 9 | Of course , she reminded herself sternly , that was just proof that she had not had many sensual encounters . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've not seen many , ’ answered George . |
| 11 | I hope this is right as I 've not seen many . |
| 12 | You 've not got many this year . |
| 13 | Well I 've got well I 've not got many points . |
| 14 | I 've not known many burglars break into houses with alarms systems . |
| 15 | Then , confident that we had n't missed many , we set course for the larger island of Whalsay . |
| 16 | He was n't exactly nasty to me but I was only sixteen and I had n't done many interviews , and I was nervous . |
| 17 | She had n't got many clothes she liked at the moment . |
| 18 | A second reason is perhaps that we have not obtained many of the much-trumpeted benefits that we were promised from the original Common Market . |
| 19 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 20 | I have not noticed many placards complaining about that bedecking the streets of Edinburgh or Glasgow . |
| 21 | Even though child abuse — mainly the sexual variety — has been a more open subject in the past few years , I have not seen many articles of this nature in professional magazines . |
| 22 | It is said that MPs have not had many letters about the case , in which three businessmen nearly went to jail for doing what the Government had encouraged them to do . |
| 23 | In the discussion which follows we shall draw a simplistic distinction between spoken and written language which takes highly literate written language as the norm of written language , and the speech of those who have not spent many years exposed to written language ( a set which will include most young undergraduate students ) as the norm for spoken language . |
| 24 | Foster said : ‘ It 's a surprise because I am fully aware that I have not taken many wickets , although I also feel I have been bowling well . |
| 25 | They have not got many choices open to them , and they are also very aware of people judging them as mothers because of their age , and feel that they constantly have to prove themselves . |
| 26 | But er , of course , he 's doing well obviously , but he 's not had many up till now . |
| 27 | I have n't missed many since then . |
| 28 | Because I wonder why you have n't made many musicals — you seem to have the personality and the looks for it . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh well , I 've never led anything harder than E5 , and I have n't done many of those , so I must be an absolutely lousy climber , ’ I said . |
| 30 | but I mean ours does n't , mine does n't , I mean mine 's only a small one because I have n't done many years there . |