Example sentences of "[not/n't] much [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Not much sign of guilt there , he thought . |
| 4 | There is not much sign of peasant migrants escaping seigneurial control altogether . |
| 5 | It 's not much protection from wind at this slower speed , but you can unnerve the man in front of you , wait for a moment of weakness and spring past . |
| 6 | Our unemployment allowances miserable though they are , are framed to suit a population with very high standards and not much notion of economy . |
| 7 | So , ontologically speaking , there is not much enlightenment to be-gained by pursuing this road either . |
| 8 | Not much danger of course , but there must be a shade of guilt attached to the best repossessin' season . |
| 9 | Not much time for pleasure . |
| 10 | Poor in the estuaries in the northern half of Morecambe Bay and not much prospect of improvement . |
| 11 | It was comforting to note , however , that , so far at any rate , the little blind boy had shown not much talent for destruction . |
| 12 | There will be efforts at the maintenance of the house or apartment , but not much interest in improvement of housing level . |
| 13 | Though there 's not much room for manoeuvre , every little helps . |
| 14 | That 's that 's right , I mean I I I would suggest that we 've arrived at that point now , and we 're increasingly likely to do so , because as we 've already heard York is very constrained , it 's it 's it 's a relatively small , compact , historic city , the greenbelt boundaries are drawn fairly tightly , correctly in so in in my opinion , and there 's really not much room for manoeuvre within with er in a existing settlements within the greenbelt . |
| 15 | Oh well er , quality is more important than quantity , but obviously if the quantity is very tiny , i it is there 's not much room for quality . |
| 16 | The money has already been agreed on , so not much room for controversy there . |
| 17 | In some respects there seems not much room for argument about our conception of standard effects and their causal circumstances . |
| 18 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 19 | There is n't much scope for skill here . ’ |
| 20 | He was a schoolteacher and a very nice man , I understand , but there was n't much opportunity for Mother to go out and have a little enjoyment and apparently Aunt Bessie did not encourage such things . |
| 21 | I have n't much sense of smell . " |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you have to make a quid somehow and there ai n't much money in firewood . ’ |
| 23 | Connie buzzed them in for a joyous greeting from Hurley , Colonel John Sasser , the Defense attaché , and one of Buck Revell 's FBI team , but there was n't much time for celebration because Hamadan was wanted elsewhere for debriefing . |
| 24 | Heaven knew , with an entire house to decorate , there was n't much time for sun-worshipping , but she 'd never been able to resist the lure of the warmth for long . |
| 25 | Rufus , who had n't much appreciation of nature usually , nevertheless found himself gazing in something like wonderment at all the roses , yellow and pink and apricot and dark red , a hedge of white ones , a cascade of peach-red that covered a pergola . |