Example sentences of "[verb] not have much " in BNC.

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1 Almost no one notices the significance of 25 March ; the high style of the eagle 's song has not had much appeal ; though Tolkien himself wept over the grandeur of the Field of Cormallen ( Letters , p. 321 ) , many other readers have found the delight , tears and laughter ( of Sam especially ) unconvincing .
2 The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success .
3 The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success .
4 She has n't had much rejection , thank God , to this date and her liver is functioning normally .
5 Although SAG has taken the technical issues of SQL interoperability a stage further , the organisation has n't had much success in getting the specifications out of the copy book and into vendors ' products .
6 Although the SQL Access Group has taken the technical issues of SQL interoperability a stage further , the organisation has n't had much success in getting the specifications out of the copy book and into vendors ' products .
7 Cos she has n't had much success lately has she with her Blind Date people ?
8 That 's , has n't had much of a rest today so
9 I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach .
10 Well she 'd not had much of a life had she ?
11 She was n't sure she wanted to return , but seemed not to have much choice anymore , and so she stayed .
12 I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 .
13 Since Paribas 's rival Banque Indosuez won the insurance company , Victoire , analysts believe that Paribas did not have much choice but to look for a suitable target in the insurance field .
14 Mrs Thatcher did not have much time for the body and abolished it after the election victory in 1983 — an example perhaps of her dislike for so-called ‘ professional ’ advice that purports to be above party politics .
15 In fact , Marx and Engels did not have much choice among anthropologists because most of them were heirs to the philosophical tradition which went back to Locke and which glorified private property .
16 SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure .
17 I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation .
18 I only know I did not have much fun this summer . ’
19 Convents of mere women probably did not have much access to precious books in those days before printing .
20 Whether or not these relationships cut through any red tape I do not know , but the red tape did not have much of a chance in these circumstances .
21 But she did n't have to ask : Comrade Andrew did not have much time for Jasper .
22 The cloze scores for the two conditions , normal and scrambled , hardly differed at all ( 49 per cent for the normal ; 46 per cent for the scrambled ) , which suggested that the reordering did not have much effect .
23 The effect of this was that Central Office , for all its generosity , did not have much control over the selection of candidates in places where the man selected might actually win , and this did not change much before 1914 .
24 She still did not have much use for him personally ; he , too , was twenty-one , they were exactly the same age take a week or so , and very sure of himself , too sure , even for her taste .
25 She did not have much time and believed it would have saved his job .
26 He realized Oliver did not have much experience of the world .
27 The war in Abyssinia did not have much effect on the people of Fontanellato .
28 ( The Shah at this time did not have much authority ) .
29 We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time .
30 I listened with interest to the hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) when he said that the Labour party did not have much interest in or seek to represent the Monktonhall miners .
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