Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although some of these points have been considered , our understanding of colonic function has not increased much and measurements of colonic pressures have not found their way into routine clinical practice ; measurements of transit have a more practical value in selected patients . |
| 2 | In the tormented conditions of Russia today , this series of exhibitions has not caused much of a stir . |
| 3 | She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance . |
| 4 | The government has not done much to restrain it . |
| 5 | If he has not done much gardening before , you can work together , so that you can enjoy sharing the tasks , and it is easier for you to assess when the patient has had enough . |
| 6 | This has not done much to improve its reputation as a heavy , high-calorie food , which is certainly undeserved . |
| 7 | Apart from that , Mr Clinton has not done much with drugs policy . |
| 8 | This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections , though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister . |
| 9 | However , the feeling among certain firms on the scheme is that it has not done much if anything to generate business from new clients . |
| 10 | The ending of the Cold War has not made much difference to the well-being of this country or the extent of the manufacture of weapons . |
| 11 | There have been some minor revisions of these rules recently , since the European Court ruled that they were discriminatory against women , but this has not made much difference . |
| 12 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |
| 13 | Although malabsorption of fat and protein have been extensively investigated , malabsorption of complex carbohydrate has not attracted much attention in patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 16 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 17 | Now do n't ask me why , but ever since that fateful day ‘ Jaz ’ has not taken much of a liking to me . |
| 18 | Its classical framework of reference evidently limits its range of applicability , especially because the view of style as embellishment has not found much favour in modern literary studies . |
| 19 | ‘ GENERAL PETER CAN BE TRUSTED NOT TO GIVE MUCH AWAY ’ |
| 20 | Being uncomplicated , the riders tend not to take much notice of it and in their minds , they have already finished . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Well she 'd not had much of a life had she ? |
| 23 | She was n't sure she wanted to return , but seemed not to have much choice anymore , and so she stayed . |
| 24 | In rainy weather , they sometimes concentrate on the less nutritious foods rather than search for more fruit , but in fruiting trees seem not to pay much attention to other frugivores though they eat most , and that wastefully . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Certainly , judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground , I did not give much for his chances . |
| 27 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 28 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 29 | He did not give much for Beales 's chances of getting in and out of the building unremarked . |
| 30 | Happily , we lived in a much more enlightened time during World War 2 , I never understood the treatment of LMF cases ; it was something I could not understand as outlined in the Air Ministry Order , which was a very harsh document and did not give much leeway in the treatment of a chap if he felt he could not do any more . |