Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] much [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 2 | That would be quite unacceptable to good potential MPs who do not think much of popularity ( their own or other people 's ) and would not demean themselves by deliberately setting out to acquire it . |
| 3 | She does not know much about world politics ; she undertakes her ‘ strange Odyssean intellectual and political adventure into the soul and psyche of this unknown leader ’ in , she says , ‘ a systematic journalistic manner ’ . |
| 4 | I may not know much about anatomy , but I am rug-smart . |
| 5 | Yoga may not do much for stamina , but it can be excellent for suppleness and also relatively good for strength . |
| 6 | In short it appears that the selection of candidates under the STV does not do much for party harmony . |
| 7 | If , as I have suggested , the 12 members of the Community do not have much in common with us over sovereignty , what do we have in common over foreign affairs ? |
| 8 | To say that building societies ' deposits come from bank deposits is not saying much of interest , however . |
| 9 | Not knowing much about bird first-aid , I was n't sure what to do , so I took the bird home . |
| 10 | ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art . ’ |
| 12 | The royalty it must pay Microsoft is generally put at $15 to $20 per copy , and all the blank disks needed to make each copy of the thing , plus printing and packaging cost about $26 , which does not leave much for distribution from the $49 it charges Windows users , $99 for MS-DOS users and $139 for those having neither . |
| 13 | Twenty years ago the sight of Japanese tourists lounging in the tropical garden of a Balinese hotel roused curiosity , especially since the Japanese did not travel much for pleasure in those days , and these tourists were only in Bali for the weekend . |
| 14 | Indeed , the Rue-des-Bois landscapes already have much in common with Braque 's contemporary works . |
| 15 | John Ebdon has always made much of astronomy 's links with the past , culminating in 1980 with the opening of The Astronomers gallery — which tells the story of the subject in light and sound through the achievements of five famous astronomers . |
| 16 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't think you ever thought much of revolution , ’ I tell him , sipping my whisky . |
| 18 | Not that I ever knew much about bathwater . |
| 19 | Many of these remain in name alone , but there are two mills on the lower reaches that still contain much of interest . |
| 20 | Gow also did much to interest undergraduates in art , a subject by no means popular among the Cambridge dons of his generation . |
| 21 | However , there is a very considerable congruence between Marxist accounts and those of the new right who both identify much of expenditure on the welfare state as dysfunctional for capital accumulation ( see Mishra , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | This is because although they are usually regarded as an important branch of positivist theorising , they also have much in common with the classical tradition . |
| 23 | Well it 's very , they are talking about er other issues up to they are talking about the workforce and of the erm the the report from the and er it seems that they do n't really want much to programme forward which I have put for next year very structural maintenance of the and I what the services are actually doing , they have lost council probably say that they are out of control . |
| 24 | I do n't really know much about china but there are a few marks one always recognises . " |
| 25 | Do n't know much about gold coins erm I mean I suppose they 're a tradable asset . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know much about art , ’ said Crocker , sitting down and crossing one elegant lean leg over the other , ‘ but there 's one painting I would like to have . |
| 27 | Nov 17 1984 Do n't know much about art , but we know we do n't like this kiddy cartoon of a ZZ Top car with a hat on |
| 28 | There is frequent intolerance to work which has real relevance and many times I have seen images dismissed with the familiar phrase , ‘ I do n't know much about art , but I know what I like ’ . |
| 29 | She did n't know much about art before but there was an exhibition of my Old Masters going on at the Royal Academy and she saw that , and was very enthusiastic about it , especially the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII . |
| 30 | I do n't know much about art but it seems so … extreme . ’ |