Example sentences of "not [vb pp] much [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Aquitaine , still English , had not attracted much attention from either side since 1413 , the military emphasis since then having been on northern France . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pamela said she had not done much thinking about her parents ' attitudes . |
| 9 | Cara had not seen much sense to it . |
| 10 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 11 | Chapman , a Yorkshireman , had not had much success as a player , but he shone as a manager , first with Huddersfield and then with Arsenal , where he had a salary of £2,000 a year and wrote a column for the Sunday Express into the bargain . |
| 12 | For teachers and children who have not had much experience of collaborative methods of working it would offer the opportunity to explore , as a starting point , the potential of individual activities for generating worthwhile collaboration . |
| 13 | We have not had much trouble like that since we went ex-directory . ’ |
| 14 | Fleet operators appear to have felt that the raids had not had much effect on operations there and it was rumoured that the National Iranian Oil Company ( NIOC ) was managing to improvise , using storage tanks on the mainland . |
| 15 | ‘ No , he 's not got much time for anything but work . |
| 16 | It is probable that we ask permission to use certain shots in the production , and as we have not got much time before the edit , I wonder if you could let us have 1″ PAL copies of these three films ? |
| 17 | Its classical framework of reference evidently limits its range of applicability , especially because the view of style as embellishment has not found much favour in modern literary studies . |
| 18 | For this sort of reason rejuvenated hidden variable theories have not found much acceptance among professional quantum mechanics . |
| 19 | In these circumstances there had not seemed much point in working on my Ph.D . |
| 20 | This is important , because the European vaccine market is changing rapidly , and Wellcome had not put much emphasis on this area in recent years . |
| 21 | failure to do so will give the impression that you have not taken much trouble with your application and may be careless in the future . |
| 22 | Later cases have not thrown much light on these muddied waters . |
| 23 | The family had not paid much attention to the terms of the eccentric patriarch 's last wishes , as the stipulation that all his possessions should be held in readiness for his return merely put the houses and their produce at the usual disposal of his family , while removing the problem of his personal presence and authority . |
| 24 | After a long hot journey we had not paid much attention to our surroundings and it seemed unbelievable to be in Germany at last . |
| 25 | The labour movement in Britain had not paid much attention to the revolutionary propaganda of the Communists . |
| 26 | The former have not attached much importance to emotions and to the unconscious in their analyses of society and its development , or not at least recently . |
| 27 | It 's true , I have n't given much thought to Mummy . |
| 28 | But I have n't given much thought to it at the moment . |
| 29 | He had n't given much thought to how they could get the Thing into space . |
| 30 | She had n't given much thought to what the house that her father had left would be like , but she had not gained the impression that it was anything like this . |