Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] much [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I feel that it could be boxed in by bureacracy and not make much contribution to a company 's performance . ’ |
| 2 | Erm a light bulb is not using much electricity in a given time . |
| 3 | As usual , one of these aspects of life does not make much sense without the other . |
| 4 | Analyses of Chinese statues and coins show that they did not make much use of brass until about the sixteenth century AD . |
| 5 | The capture of the village yesterday evening did not make much difference to our situation in and around the village . |
| 6 | A second major defect of UDG was that it did not make much difference to cities as a whole . |
| 7 | In practical terms it may not make much difference to consumers when they do that . ’ |
| 8 | She may find new capabilities in herself and her present machine , advanced technology does not make much difference to the finished result and costs a lot . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Observers suggest that the White Paper 's proposals will not make much difference to the overall amount of coal burnt in the UK , although a greater proportion will be likely to come form UK sources . |
| 11 | The latest findings may not make much difference to clinical practice in this country . |
| 12 | But Leeds ' own tartan terror , Gordon Strachan , insists it does not make much difference to players with championship credentials . |
| 13 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 14 | I have not given much thought to that question , for the simple reason that I do not follow the elaborate paranoid theory advanced by the hon. Gentleman who believes that I am so worried about those annual reports . |
| 15 | It has been known for a tough roadman-sprinter to control the race in these big hills , not to lose much time on the Ballon , then rejoin the leading group , dominate them on the long downhill run into Mulhouse and win the stage . |
| 16 | ‘ What matters to us is the fact that we have not enjoyed much success against Southern Hemisphere nations and until we start beating them regularly we will never be world champions . |
| 17 | This was 4 months before the St. Louis meeting mentioned above , so the publication evidently did not stimulate much excitement in the United States . |
| 18 | However , since the wave is providing all the power for the turn you do not need much power from the rig . |
| 19 | Although malabsorption of fat and protein have been extensively investigated , malabsorption of complex carbohydrate has not attracted much attention in patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency . |
| 20 | Aquitaine , still English , had not attracted much attention from either side since 1413 , the military emphasis since then having been on northern France . |
| 21 | In theraps species the changes in colours and body pattern distinction are very noticeable indeed , whereas in others , like managuense , which do not display much variation in colour , the male will go very dark , jet black even , with the Jaguar pattern becoming very distinct . |
| 22 | Love Virgos involved in a new relationship should not expect much progress until at least early December . |
| 23 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 24 | But Moses does not show much faith in God 's willingness to fulfil her duties , and sees death as the only way to find release from his burdens . |
| 25 | Five-year-olds did not show much understanding of the deductive/empirical distinction at all , even in the deductive marking experiment . |
| 26 | Between these two poles of urban progressive Gujerati families and Muslim peasant families fall the majority of situations , where the parents do not show much interest in their daughter 's school life and try and restrict her if she wants to enter higher education . |
| 27 | The ending of the Cold War has not made much difference to the well-being of this country or the extent of the manufacture of weapons . |
| 28 | Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress . |
| 29 | Pamela said she had not done much thinking about her parents ' attitudes . |
| 30 | Cara had not seen much sense to it . |