Example sentences of "not [verb] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 2 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 3 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 4 | things would not move much further until they were given a determined push , and MT Crosland was to do just that . |
| 5 | In any event , in colonial Vietnam reformists did not fare much better than revolutionaries . |
| 6 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 7 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |
| 8 | His ‘ vulgarity ’ did not extend much further than a quotation from Dryden , but he spoke with gusto and good humour . |
| 9 | For them to develop properly they need guidance and a good example , and you ca n't do much better than have somebody like Fergie in your setup — somebody who has done and seen it all . ’ |
| 10 | The simple mouse-and-icons approach means putting together new forms or reports ought to be a doddle ; and for functions like queries or browsing , you ca n't do much better than the GUI . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're set for the end of the century , ’ he says , ‘ but you ca n't look much further than that , can you ? ’ |
| 12 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 13 | But because they have not reached agreement with the Press Association who supply newspapers with the racecards , it wo n't reach much further than racecourse punters who buy an official card . |
| 14 | So the divorce of sex from reproduction which is erm a very common and even fashionable view in the later twentieth century and of course is one very much facilitated by modern birth control technology and things like that this , this divorce of sex and reproduction is in a way you could say a characteristically male way of looking at things if the male 's er contribution to offspring does n't go much further than the initial fertilization . |
| 15 | Well , I finally got Miguel to talk to them about it and it turns out the reason there are n't any old folk around is because they do n't live much longer than about 35 . |