Example sentences of "was [not/n't] [adv] much [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 2 | In order not to seem too dictatorial , and perhaps to conform with some grass-roots grocer-Tory image , ministers have sometimes spoken as if their aim was not so much to take powers to themselves ( and thus away from Local Authorities ) as to give powers to parents . |
| 3 | Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse . |
| 4 | With boys in unskilled employment , the intention was not so much to impart skills , ‘ as to retain [ them ] at an impressionable age and to mould and discipline their character ’ , and in such cases specialization or technical training would be out of place . |
| 5 | She would have known , as Diana discovered too late , that Camilla 's famous vetting of Charles 's girlfriends was not so much to assess their potential as a royal bride but to see how much of a threat they posed to her friendship with Prince Charles . |
| 6 | The father 's real purpose in allowing me to visit the family was not so much to get help , but to recoup the £40 he had spent on satanist scriptures , which he wanted to sell to me . |
| 7 | The purpose was not so much to reproduce the direction of artists as to circumvent the unnatural effect of ‘ music coming out of a hole ’ . |
| 8 | There was n't too much to tell , and after Rutherford had finished he would leave the American in the room with the file and let him gut it for himself . |
| 9 | It was n't very much to go back . |
| 10 | There was n't very much to leave . |
| 11 | I know m money did go much farther in those days but there certainly was n't very much to spare at all . |
| 12 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 13 | And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry . |
| 14 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |