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 I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach .
20 Well she 'd not had much of a life had she ?
21 The long moralistic campaigns of Mrs Mary Whitehouse directed at BBC television had not made much headway .
22 They turned increasingly to those areas where the British and the French had not made much progress : to the Balkans , Turkey and South America .
23 Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand .
24 Pamela said she had not done much thinking about her parents ' attitudes .
25 Even the advent of the university had not done much to increase his sales , she considered shrewdly , since she could not recall seeing a single bookshelf in any of the homes of university staff which she had visited .
26 Earlier monarchs had spent very little on such things and had not done much about the world outside Europe or about the development of their colonies .
27 Because I had not done much mathematics at school or at Oxford , I found general relativity very difficult at first and did not make much progress .
28 He was n't sure he really wanted this , which was perhaps why he had not done much about it himself .
29 However , we had not caught a double , so unbeknown to Rick I wound in my right hand rod which had not done much on the meat and switched over to a boilie .
30 Centralizing revenue collection and publishing the empire 's accounts had won Reitern the respect of financial experts , but had not done much to earn him the applause of the community at large .
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