Example sentences of "they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Task allocation also means that nurses become very familiar with doing particular procedures , even though they may not give much thought to why they are doing something . |
| 2 | To begin with they travel only at night and often they may not go much more than a mile . |
| 3 | They may not have much impact on the result of Namibia 's election . |
| 4 | But to end on a slightly alarmist note , they may not have much more time than that . |
| 5 | He says they should n't carry much money and if they are threatened they should never resist . |
| 6 | They decided they could n't do much about the rape , but they dealt with the wife beating by publicly humiliating and parading the culprits ! |
| 7 | Well they 'd basically do what the British troops would do but they would n't lose much hate against them would they ? |
| 8 | ‘ They would n't get much of a blaze going in this , ’ said Lydia , gesturing at the rain which was falling in an undisciplined , abandoned way as though someone had forgotten to turn it off . |
| 9 | For one thing , the criticism could easily rebound on the people who run these places , when in most cases they know how bad things are themselves but they ca n't do much about it . |
| 10 | and they are helping with the children in the house , I mean , they ca n't do much more ! |
| 11 | they ca n't do much of a business |
| 12 | They ca n't get much mate . |
| 13 | They have no friends and they ca n't remember much of the past . |
| 14 | Tape recorders , on the other hand , are relatively small and can therefore be placed in position where they will not attract much attention . |
| 15 | Granted , if socialists merely develop a list of pat answers to these questions ( nationalisation , ‘ planning ’ ) while failing to fight for more immediately realisable socialist gains outside of government they will not get much of a hearing , but equally to write off the macroeconomic questions as too difficult to speculate about is to forego the right to contest the policies of a reactionary national government . |
| 16 | Although the National Co-operative Research Act in the US and the block exemption in Europe have a number of attractive and sensible features , there exists little hard evidence to suggest that they will actually have much of an effect on the rate of innovation in the US or in Europe . |
| 17 | They wo n't attract much attention individually . |
| 18 | ‘ Then they wo n't make much headway now . ’ |
| 19 | But these will only reduce smell and run-off , not cure them , and they wo n't have much effect on grass contamination . |
| 20 | The resort is not really suitable for children or teenagers , since they wo n't have much company ; Bitez is better . |
| 21 | And as for not believing me , they wo n't have much choice . |
| 22 | If the children in Durham Cathedral do not have a sense of what it would cost them to break the vow of sanctuary they can not have much interest vested in keeping it . |