Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [verb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my right hon. Friend pointed out from the Dispatch Box yesterday , only £1 in £3 of agricultural support goes to farmers , which we do not think makes much sense . |
| 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 | People arguing about whether black swans exist , for instance , do not need to spend much time agreeing first what a black swan is . |
| 4 | ‘ It would not need to improve much to enable the meeting to go ahead , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ( You do not need to know much about the topic to do this ; you only need to be able to identify what you would need to know . ) |
| 6 | As the lines were alternately pulled so the pulley actuated a semi-circular rudder hinged across the diagonal of the rearmost box.One does not need to have much imagination to see how the rudder deflection might send the Box kite into limited stunts , given a strong wind ; but we doubt if the rigid stability of a Box kite could be persuaded to perform over a wide range of movement . |
| 7 | This year does not promise to bring much improvement . |
| 8 | She did not expect to see much of Liz and Alix , who had married and made their own lives after another pattern . |
| 9 | Eddie Ramsay , managing director of the Powderhall greyhound track in Edinburgh , said he did not expect to lose much business if the bookmakers did extend their hours . |
| 10 | One great comber filled the canoe before she shook free from the cascading crests ; now they could not expect to make much headway and had to fight even harder to avoid broaching-to . |
| 11 | The specification of the problem does not appear to give much scope for divergent thinking or investigation , but if other factors which as servicing of rolling stock , breakdowns and altering the frequency of trains is included , the investigation can become more open . |
| 12 | But while the perceived effect of events on future plans may be a critical factor in the development of affective disorder , such general interpretations of events do not appear to offer much scope for intervention . |
| 13 | They all then went back to collect the boats and their explosives , having an altercation on the way with a black sentry from Somaliland who did not appear to speak much Italian . |
| 14 | Short did not appear to obtain much advantage out of the opening and according to Karpov 's friend , Dmitri Bjelica , Karpov could have secured a draw by exchanging queens as the players approached the time control at move 40 . |
| 15 | The Morgan test would not appear to require much more than a knowledge of the basic facts of life . |
| 16 | Thus , whatever success individual parents may have achieved via the 1980 Act 's appeal system , it seemed , by 1986 , that ‘ rights of school choice do not appear to make much difference to the outcomes of school admissions or to the LEAs ' management of school rolls ’ . |
| 17 | Thus , small establishments in retailing and in hotels and catering do not appear to make much more use of temporaries than do larger establishments . |
| 18 | It rarely featured in the financial press , and did not appear to have much of a voice on driving matters — unusual for a company in its position . |
| 19 | Because management use the technology to exercise tight control over workers , managers have not needed to pay much attention to issues of job satisfaction and motivation because only when workers have autonomy does their level of motivation become a relevant consideration . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Interest rates are not going to fall much more , and prices for properties under £100,000 have reached rock bottom . ’ |
| 22 | , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and |
| 23 | McLeish decided he was not going to get much more out of this and went on to check , gently , what Francis Morgan had done with the weekend . |
| 24 | You 're not going to get much current down there at all . |
| 25 | What happens in Strasbourg is not going to have much effect on the mortgage rate or inflation . |
| 26 | A Duke of Aquitaine in the style of 1176 and 1179 was not going to have much time for customs which reflected the political realities of earlier days . |
| 27 | So one person will do the bandage on the elbow and the other person with the good looking knees , you 'll be the casualty for where you 've got to put the knee bandage on , cos you wo n't , if you do n't roll your trousers up a bit you 're not going to have much bandage to do much bandaging with on the knee , okay , so decide amongst yourselves who 's got the good looking knee |
| 28 | Okay so some are quite easy some of them you 're not going to have much problem with at all . |
| 29 | then we 're not going to have much to talk about then . |
| 30 | Historians are not going to have much success convincing these companies to retain this data unless a business case can be established or there are legal requirements that foster its preservation . |