Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] [to-vb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its title is misleading , since the Georgian interiors are few in number , and can not be said to give much idea of their period . |
| 2 | In all , this incidence of reported problems can not be said to suggest much more than the occasional misunderstanding , difficulty or other problem which must mark a small proportion of virtually every type of consumer transaction . |
| 3 | Patients refused admission can not be expected to take much comfort from this explanation of their plight . |
| 4 | If word recognition is completed before the context can be used to generate a prediction , then the context would not be expected to have much of an effect upon the word , and more experienced readers do appear to be less influenced by context . |
| 5 | He could n't be expected to manage much more than an hour on his feet , after which he 'd be living up to his name , although not — Diane hoped — to his reputation . |