Example sentences of "[noun] did not [vb infin] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local opposition did not require much effort to undermine state legitimacy on the effects of uranium mining : indeed the state itself contributed strongly to its own delegitimization . |
| 2 | One journalist asked him about " The Love Life of J. Alfred Prufrock " and he replied gravely , " I 'm afraid that J. Alfred Prufrock did n't have much of a love life " . |
| 3 | The photograph did n't do much for the man . |
| 4 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 5 | David Hempleman Adams did n't need much help navigating his team from his base at Swindon to the House of Commons ; after all he 'd successfully managed to get them to the North Geomagnetic Pole . |
| 6 | She said then , very quickly , like a trick question to someone in the Yes/No interlude on the Michael Miles Quiz Show : ‘ Marriage Guidance did n't do much for your need to dump , did it ? ’ |
| 7 | Glancing from beneath her lashes , Lindsey studied his profile , and found it unnerving , or perhaps it was simply that the confining space of the small car did n't allow much distance between driver and passenger . |
| 8 | Whether or not these relationships cut through any red tape I do not know , but the red tape did not have much of a chance in these circumstances . |
| 9 | Fortunately his rude manners did not cut much ice with his colleagues either . |
| 10 | Gustav did n't waste much time about … ’ |
| 11 | One approach is to hire a sociologist to peer into the black box ( the quotation from Heusch 1981 : 423 , and p. 46 in this book about the role of the sociologist is apposite here ) , in a similar way to anthropologists who sought to tell colonial administrators how to avoid irritating the people they governed ( although , according to Feuchtwang 1973 , the administrators did not take much notice of what they had to say ) . |
| 12 | Since Paribas 's rival Banque Indosuez won the insurance company , Victoire , analysts believe that Paribas did not have much choice but to look for a suitable target in the insurance field . |
| 13 | If this was his way of helping her then Maggie did n't think much of it . |
| 14 | Doone did n't know much about marble , it appeared . |
| 15 | The food was excellent and I was not charged much because the cooking was done on quite a large scale — I was not a big eater so my lunch did not make much difference to the running of the place . |
| 16 | Their work did not receive much attention , however , because at just about that time most people abandoned the original string theory of the strong force in favor of the theory based on quarks and gluons , which seemed to fit much better with observations . |
| 17 | The girl did not eat much fruit and was not keen on vegetables , said Dr Kevin McKenna . |
| 18 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 19 | Swindon tried to play their game but in the first half did n't have much joy … |
| 20 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 21 | But Karen did n't have much use for tradition . |
| 22 | We and customs did n't know much at all till you phoned last night with the stories about the lorries and the baggage handlers at Gatwick . ’ |
| 23 | The big white room did n't have much to offer . |
| 24 | Dolly did n't think much of that . |
| 25 | Theda did not see much of the gentleman , for he ate with Araminta in the breakfast parlour , while Theda always had her meals in Mrs Diggory 's little pantry . |
| 26 | Surviving on the social margins did not allow much surplus to use as a bribe . |
| 27 | In 1887 Peach and Horne did not do much field work as the former had sciatica and the latter suffered from what was described as inflammation . |
| 28 | Venables added he felt Sugar did n't know much about football . |
| 29 | Many dealers did n't think much of their recorded lines either . |
| 30 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |