Example sentences of "have not [verb] much " in BNC.
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1 | Although some of these points have been considered , our understanding of colonic function has not increased much and measurements of colonic pressures have not found their way into routine clinical practice ; measurements of transit have a more practical value in selected patients . |
2 | In the tormented conditions of Russia today , this series of exhibitions has not caused much of a stir . |
3 | She has not seen much of Montparnasse recently , she confesses to her readers , she has been staying indoors ‘ nursing a sick wasp and writing a comic romance . |
4 | The government has not done much to restrain it . |
5 | If he has not done much gardening before , you can work together , so that you can enjoy sharing the tasks , and it is easier for you to assess when the patient has had enough . |
6 | This has not done much to improve its reputation as a heavy , high-calorie food , which is certainly undeserved . |
7 | Apart from that , Mr Clinton has not done much with drugs policy . |
8 | This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections , though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister . |
9 | However , the feeling among certain firms on the scheme is that it has not done much if anything to generate business from new clients . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | There have been some minor revisions of these rules recently , since the European Court ruled that they were discriminatory against women , but this has not made much difference . |
12 | The fact that obligations of kinship and personal lordship , and the justice of the feud , were extremely effective methods of control in the localities of early modem Scotland naturally carried little conviction for societies who prided themselves on having advanced beyond these things ; and since a long historiographical tradition has much preferred kings who reduced the powers of their aristocracies , and signed their account books , the Scottish monarchy , whose power rested on quite different things , has not attracted much praise . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Almost no one notices the significance of 25 March ; the high style of the eagle 's song has not had much appeal ; though Tolkien himself wept over the grandeur of the Field of Cormallen ( Letters , p. 321 ) , many other readers have found the delight , tears and laughter ( of Sam especially ) unconvincing . |
15 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
16 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
17 | Now do n't ask me why , but ever since that fateful day ‘ Jaz ’ has not taken much of a liking to me . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Spot on about Whitlow he has n't missed much at all has he ? |
20 | ‘ He 's had a tough 18 months because he has n't played much football , but he will be very good for us and will get better . |
21 | Having devoted the greater part of this year and last to extending its near hegemony in the market for low-end and mid-range Unix-based imaging solutions , promoting the GL graphics library as a de facto standard , and continuing to digest the business of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc , SGI has n't given much attention to its high-end . |
22 | Jo Baker 's guest house in Ross on Wye has n't seen much trade recently . |
23 | APART from a bit of financial window dressing , the Chancellor has n't done much with this statement . |
24 | While Colonel Sanders 's fried poultry has n't done much for the state 's image and few of us get to attend the Kentucky Derby , America 's leading spirit is becoming increasingly fashionable in Britain . |
25 | ‘ It has n't done much for my temper . ’ |
26 | A broken marriage has n't done much to lighten them , either . ’ |
27 | ‘ He has n't believed much of what I 've told him , but is that a good reason not to tell him I 've recognized the man ? |
28 | In terms of presentation 1-2-3 has n't improved much either . |
29 | If a home has n't got much space and there are still children around , the chances of it working without conflict are reduced . |
30 | He has n't got much time left to come up with a challenge for 1992 . |