Example sentences of "[pron] be [not/n't] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to warn you , but I was n't much help . |
| 2 | ‘ In the end I was acting mum to six orphaned baby hedgehogs — getting up to feed them every three hours , which is n't much fun . |
| 3 | During the War , we were kept , my mother and I , in a Japanese prison camp , which was n't much fun at the time , but won me an awestruck admiration from the other boys when I first went to school . |
| 4 | ‘ Goodness knows you 're not much company . |
| 5 | So you 're really , in a way , you 're not much difference than where you started . |
| 6 | And sh they she was given erm some sort of oh something to put her to sleep or whatever gas and I know sh she seemed to know what she was doing but this lady that was there with her she passed out with the smell of gas in the room so she was n't much help . |
| 7 | She was n't much fun , old Angie , but effing good on a mattress . ’ |
| 8 | Where there 's not much money around , a couple is often forced to stay in the same house . |
| 9 | There 's not much money in our house . |
| 10 | And there 's not much relief even on the down-wind holes ! ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There 's not much chance of wearing through the Vibram soles of these Veta V Daisy Roots though . |
| 13 | With his history of rent defaulting , there 's not much chance of another tenancy , is there ? |
| 14 | There 's not much chance of finding an 'usband down 'ere and Aah 've no wish ti stop an old maid all me life . |
| 15 | With that , there 's not much chance . |
| 16 | I might be able to do something for you next year but there 's not much chance this year , I 'm afraid . |
| 17 | There is , but there 's not much juice left in ‘ Vitamin ’ by the time it reaches your ears . |
| 18 | There 's not much doubt who Campo would choose . |
| 19 | There 's not much romance about it then . ’ |
| 20 | There 's not much spaces left . |
| 21 | I think especially when they find out that there 's not much land to go round as they ash assumed . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's not much overlap in the title bases ’ of MIS:Press and M&T Books , Mr Berkowitz said . |
| 23 | Right well there 's not much space left is there ! |
| 24 | In fact 'e 's no great cop , but there 's not much choice hereabouts , as Jonna says . |
| 25 | ‘ Very few people do , Anne , and there 's not much information available to ordinary people . |
| 26 | ‘ And if we ca n't fully enjoy the place there 's not much point in keeping it . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're at pains to stress this is n't a protest , but we were here for rest and recreation , ’ he said , ‘ so if I ca n't send my men ashore ; there 's not much point in staying . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There 's not much point in it otherwise . |
| 29 | The daunting difficulty is underlined again by one of our front pages of last week : there were people from IBM 's labs discussing this holographic polymer they had developed , which promised unimaginably high capacity and low cost data storage : right , well if that 's coming along , there 's not much point in putting much more investment into rotating magnetic memory systems — disks to you and me , DASD to IBMers — is there : better put AdStar onto a care-and-maintenance basis , perhaps even sell it . |
| 30 | He said he did n't know what the UK operation would look like after the restructuring but said most resources would be concentrated in Switzerland : ‘ support and marketing is here , so there 's not much point in having it in the UK too . ’ |