Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to do much " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in doubt about what to do next , keep yourself busy by going around and changing all the name plates : in a move scarcely calculated to do much to restore battered confidence in the company , IBM Corp 's shrunken Cadam Inc , the Burbank , California company that now confines itself to the microcomputer versions of the computer-aided design software , has changed its name to Altium , effective immediately : it says the Altium name is part of its plan to secure the unit 's position in the desktop market and ‘ a part of the larger renewal ’ of IBM . |
| 2 | Some novice gardeners may not want to do much actual gardening at all , but conversely , do not want to look out every day over a scene of threadbare grass and rotting fence . |
| 3 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |
| 4 | Israel did not have to do much more than open the area to its own produce and place obstacles in the way of anyone trying to develop enterprises or co-operative ventures . |
| 5 | He admitted having tried cocaine but said it did not seem to do much for him ; cocaine was in ‘ because the chicks dig it sexually ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not qualified to do much else , ’ Anna said , in the gentle voice she had used to Peter . |
| 7 | Cos I do n't , I do n't want to do much of , I know you you want me to show you . |
| 8 | Campese , definitely unlike Best , says he would n't know how to chat up a girl , though Best did n't have to do much chatting . |
| 9 | I 'm sure you could find yourself a nice easy job where you do n't have to do much apart from enhance the décor . |
| 10 | Maureen , of Mendip Grove , Darlington , said : ’ As far as I know he does n't have to do much on stage and I 'm keeping my fingers crossed he 'll behave himself . ’ |
| 11 | Now you see in my days on the railway sixty miles an hour was a good speed for a train it di it did n't reckon to do much more than that see . |
| 12 | ‘ But when you 're with him — like in the forest — you do n't seem to do much talking , ’ Mungo persisted . |
| 13 | The curious thing was that the lawyers , dentists , opticians , salesmen and accountants he knew did n't seem to do much work . |
| 14 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , it did n't seem to do much good , but it was to come in very useful later . |
| 16 | Grandparents are sometimes left to do much of the childminding while parents are out at work . |
| 17 | Next to the court was Mr. Stone 's Grocery Shop which never seemed to do much trade — it opened late and closed early — the stock was limited so few people patronised it . |