Example sentences of "not [vb pp] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 2 | I have not given much thought to that question , for the simple reason that I do not follow the elaborate paranoid theory advanced by the hon. Gentleman who believes that I am so worried about those annual reports . |
| 3 | ‘ What matters to us is the fact that we have not enjoyed much success against Southern Hemisphere nations and until we start beating them regularly we will never be world champions . |
| 4 | Aquitaine , still English , had not attracted much attention from either side since 1413 , the military emphasis since then having been on northern France . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They turned increasingly to those areas where the British and the French had not made much progress : to the Balkans , Turkey and South America . |
| 8 | The long moralistic campaigns of Mrs Mary Whitehouse directed at BBC television had not made much headway . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Pamela said she had not done much thinking about her parents ' attitudes . |
| 14 | Cara had not seen much sense to it . |
| 15 | But I have not seen much evidence that it is really possible to do it on this scale . |
| 16 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 17 | Some disagree with this line of thinking — notably Ichiro Ozawa , the secretary-general of Japan 's ruling party , who has been arguing for Japanese soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in a non-combat role — but they have not had much luck making their case . |
| 18 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 19 | ‘ They 've not had much chance , ’ she added by way of apology for herself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He 's not had much sleep though , poor sod . |
| 22 | Chapman , a Yorkshireman , had not had much success as a player , but he shone as a manager , first with Huddersfield and then with Arsenal , where he had a salary of £2,000 a year and wrote a column for the Sunday Express into the bargain . |
| 23 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 24 | The Sipra team has been been trying to tempt System 36 users to buy its product for years , but has not had much success . |
| 25 | For teachers and children who have not had much experience of collaborative methods of working it would offer the opportunity to explore , as a starting point , the potential of individual activities for generating worthwhile collaboration . |
| 26 | Have you not had much energy recently ? |
| 27 | He had not had much time or energy to expend on such matters , and was quite happy to cover familiar , or at least already prepared , ground . |
| 28 | I have been on to-day , so I have not had much time , I have wrote to G. Titman to-night . |
| 29 | We have not had much trouble like that since we went ex-directory . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |