Example sentences of "n't much [noun sg] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He had n't much chance of catching Caspar , not at the rate the dog was going .
2 ‘ There was n't much scope for doing very much that year … .
3 There was n't much point in throwing away
4 ‘ There is n't much point in trying to grow a belt of trees across the desert , ’ Camilla Toulmin , the head of IIED 's Drylands Programme , told the author .
5 But I 'm beginning to see that there is n't much point in trying to hold on to something that does n't belong to me .
6 In our bed-sitter we used to talk about my cases , the funny things that happened on my rounds , but now , I thought helplessly , there was n't much point in telling her that AC2 Phillips was on jankers again , that vector triangles were the very devil , that Don McGregor thought he had discovered the secret of Sergeant Hynd 's phenomenally shiny boots .
7 You will appreciate there is n't much point in training a bird to do this if every time you enter a different environment or a stranger comes into view it becomes hysterical .
8 There was n't much point in calling in at the shop , so I came straight here . ’
9 ‘ There was n't much point in sitting down and going over and over again into what went wrong at Coventry .
10 There was n't much point in pressing the bell so I fooled around with a small bunch of keys I keep for occasions like this and finally felt the tumblers turn in the lock .
11 Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing .
12 In her Mum and Dad 's house you were so safe there was n't much point in playing — there were so many bits of furniture crammed into the room .
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