Example sentences of "be not much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |
2 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
3 | By then he had been encouraged by the success of The Idea of a Christian Society ( 1940 ) though it is sobering to reflect that the sales , so he told me , were not much more than 6,000 copies . |
4 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
5 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
6 | One suspects that in the end , they see no real use in either ‘ dick-tionaries ’ or dictionaries : a feminist orthodoxy is not much better than a sexist one . |
7 | More riskily , the budget announced in December was based on the assumption that the oil price would average $22 a barrel for the year ; it is not much more than $17 now . |
8 | And yet , the astonishing fact is that the H.T. that we know and take for granted today is not much more than a hundred years old , generally accepted as having originated in 1867 with the variety called ‘ La France ’ . |
9 | It must be said , though , that in Schopenhauerian eyes the Greeks are in fact less compelling instructors than Shakespeare ; and that tragedy as a whole is not much more than one of several " quietives of the will " which it is the function of art in general to provide . |
10 | No it 's not m it 's not much it 's not much further than . |
11 | It 's not much further than . |
12 | Why it 's not much more than twelve hours since I saw you . ’ |
13 | But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's . |
14 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
15 | After all , it was not much more than five years since the Westminster Abbey wedding that thrilled the nation , if not the world . |
16 | It sounds complicated , but the whole sailing distance was not much more than two miles . |
17 | Perhaps he was n't much better than Dalziel . |