Example sentences of "not [verb] much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a pity and I 'm afraid it 's a case of your researchers not seeing much beyond the end of their dicks . |
| 2 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 3 | Her education had not included much in the way of ballroom-dancing . |
| 4 | A large proportion of the advertising in these markets , is , inevitably , in some sense , ‘ reminder ’ advertising — which , again , should not need much in the way of information , since it is preaching to the converted . |
| 5 | Like everybody else , Sequent is waiting on Pentium deliveries from Intel , now not expected much before the end of the year . |
| 6 | Like everybody else , Sequent is waiting on Pentium deliveries from Intel , now not expected much before the end of the year . |
| 7 | Innovation had to take place cheaply , since central government could not fund much in the way of capital projects . |
| 8 | Seaton has not grown much over the years due to lack of building land , though there are now new terrace-type cottages in the centre of the village . |
| 9 | The southern colonies did not contribute much to the war in America and though they were called on to help , there was no co-ordinated organization for strategy . |
| 10 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 11 | The Association did not achieve much in the way of concrete results but the reports stand up well to the passage of time . |
| 12 | The club paid him the princely sum of £8 , a fee that has not risen much over the years according to some of Celtic 's more dour stars . |
| 13 | It follows , however , that the inspection could not provide much in the way of external evaluation of those sections of the self-appraisal which were merely descriptive . |
| 14 | Another 250 words may not sound much in the great scheme of things , but after a heavy day at Pipeline and an end-of-contest thrash at the Turtle Bay Hilton , it felt like being asked to dash off another chapter of War and Peace . |
| 15 | We know that nutrients added to the water by humans make the algae grow , this combined with the sunlight causes blooms , but beyond that we do not understand much about the toxins . ’ |
| 16 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
| 17 | He did not look much like the leader of anything , for he was fast asleep ; very tiny , with a shock of glossy black hair , and a wrinkled red face . |
| 18 | However , the particles that emerged would not look much like the astronaut . |
| 19 | Rain did not keep much in the car , because there was always the risk of attracting a thief . |
| 20 | I do not remember much about the journey , except that it seemed far too long . |
| 21 | He did not remember much about the journey back to London except that he drove very fast . |
| 22 | He did not sleep much on the plane . |
| 23 | Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury . |
| 24 | The desired torque on this motor does not depend much on the settings of the elbow and the shoulder . |
| 25 | In general , women have not benefited much in the job market from capitalist industrialisation nor have they gained much influence in society outside the family through political channels . |
| 26 | An aspect of popular culture that is not found much in the industrialised world , comics are read by all levels of society and all age-groups . |
| 27 | For example , I have not concentrated much on the work of Steven Jones and related experiments that claim to see neutrons at levels near to background ; if real , they are of interest to science but have nothing to offer as such solutions to the world 's energy problems , at least not in the grandiose form claimed on behalf of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 28 | However , the call to the Iranian Embassy did not produce much in the way of satisfaction . |
| 29 | This is unlikely , as the absolute magnitude of these stars does not vary much across the dividing line , and in any case would not affect the xx ratio . |
| 30 | The number of heavy goods vehicles using the roads did not change much over the past 10 years . |