Example sentences of "[not/n't] much [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Not much milk for
2 In Macedon the ethnos or tribe was what mattered ; there was not much urbanization before the Peloponnesian War .
3 M. Chaillot 's response included the information that there was not much money for new work in his budget .
4 There 's not much money in our house .
5 Not much likelihood of getting a commission either .
6 Actual violence as opposed to threat and intimidation was not much present in the English food riot .
7 Under F R S Three which is the erm everything above the line earnings a a covers down , earnings down from two one to one six , not much change on the adjusted earnings which we think is perhaps more meaningful and if you look at the cash generation the test of whether you can pay it a very significant improvement from one two to one point seven times .
8 Not much call for it .
9 He kept up a routine of a sort , but as , from a mixture of laziness and disapproval of political scribblers like Lloyd George and Churchill , he never wrote anything , and increasingly preferred sniffing old books to reading new ones , there was not much purpose to his life .
10 Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it .
11 And not much colour in the lips .
12 erm There 's not much opportunity for job advancement , there are fewer opportunities to rise up the scale and become Readers or Professors and so on .
13 And he was fain to acknowledge the tenant 's insistence that the bargain was sacrosanct : ‘ I can not much saie against that ; but yet I perceaue I shalbe a losser still by this bargaine , thowghe I can not tell the reason why ’ More prosaically , landownership was hedged about by varying degrees of limitation resulting from the security of customary tenures , accompanied as often as not by inelasticity of rents .
14 Not much originality in it , but an ideal conference speech , ’ said another .
15 ‘ There 's not much overlap in the title bases ’ of MIS:Press and M&T Books , Mr Berkowitz said .
16 Not much evidence of it up to now .
17 There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence .
18 There was not much evidence of regret among the writers who then decided to rewrite democratic theory in order to incorporate the central elitist proposition .
19 However , there is not much evidence of this judicial activity in the landscape before the Middle Ages , although it must have been there and some places were obviously more significant than others in its instigation .
20 There is not much evidence for active hellenization outside old Greek centres like Halikarnassus , Smyrna and Ephesus ; though some progress is made at inland Anatolian sites like Etrim ( the Syangela of the Athenian Tribute Lists , later hellenized as ‘ Theangela ’ ) : objects like a Panathenaic amphora made in Athens c.420 , and red-figure pottery , attest the same penetration of Greek influence .
21 That would give you the bare bones of The Prince of the Pagodas , but not much idea of the richness of Benjamin Britten 's score which , paradoxically , has proved a stumbling block in the work 's history .
22 When I graduated I came to London , again with not much idea of what I would do .
23 There is fair support from neurophysiology , too , but not much sign of experiments designed to test this model against other plausible models of the neurone .
24 Not much sign of guilt there , he thought .
25 There is not much sign of peasant migrants escaping seigneurial control altogether .
26 For example , there was not much sympathy for Erwin when his employer observed that he was ‘ clever but lazy ’ .
27 We 're in a mess and nothing is going to pull us out ; I am not a socialist ; I 'm not impressed by your little man in Rome ; I do n't like ultra-nationalists ( I 'm not one of those who 'd follow the general ) ; I think there is something to be said for constitutional monarchy but in France that cause is as dead as mutton ; I have not much faith in the League , nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government .
28 There was not much choice about universities either .
29 Not much sun on Gullholm at this time of the year , I admit , but you ca n't beat it for peace and privacy .
30 ‘ Aye , not much fun for you , love , with our Terry away , ’ Pat said .
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