Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb -s] [be] much " in BNC.

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31 IN THE Collectair office there has been much back correspondence to catch up on .
32 There has been much advice given in recent years to plant with the graft bud just at or below the soil surface .
33 There has been much unprofitable speculation about whether John XXIII could have concluded the Council successfully .
34 With IBM UK Ltd taking away its RS/6000s and PS/2s and Digital Equipment UK Ltd ready to end its agreement with ICL Plc 's Technology Plc personal computer and workstation distribution acquisition , there has been much frenzied speculation that Sun Microsystems Inc and Compaq Computer Corp are ready to withdraw their products too , and that ICL has dropped a very big brick on its foot in buying the company .
35 Which expands on the Tashi character from The Color Purple in her tale of female circumcision , of which there has been much coverage .
36 There has been much speculation since the introduction of s.62 of the FSA 1986 concerning the potency of the provision as a statutory civil law remedy for insider dealing .
37 There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy .
38 There has been much criticism of Morgenthau on the latter score , as we shall point out in a moment .
39 There has been much speculation whether this proportion is likely to grow substantially in industrial societies .
40 There has been much argument as to whether the former test is more stringent .
41 Some " disappeared " prisoners are transferred because there has been much publicity about their capture , but this is by no means always the case .
42 There has been much criticism of the overlap period , particularly in the afternoon .
43 Over the years there has been much debate on the fusion of the two branches of the profession .
44 The chapter begins , then , by focusing on a phenomenon about which there has been much recent discussion — deindustrialization .
45 There has been much discussion of the need to increase the speed at which new products are brought to the marketplace and a ‘ rugby team ’ in contrast to a ‘ relay ’ approach to project management has been suggested as a way of making faster progress ( Takeuchi and Nonaka , 1986 ) .
46 In describing the framework , we have not focused on the types of individuals who might be most productive and , probably at the same time , most comfortable in each quadrant , although there has been much speculation about this in our discussions with managers and researchers .
47 In Britain these are in a state of flux although there has been much discussion about the role of the inspector over a long period of time .
48 Over the years there has been much debate as to whether or not this state of affairs is really acceptable even given the fact that these industries are highly independent bodies .
49 There has been much discussion of attempts to increase labour force " flexibility " and the rise of the " flexible firm " , although it is not always clear if this discussion is based upon descriptions , predictions or prescriptions .
50 The problem of Britain 's relatively slow rate of growth in the post-war period , compared with other industrial countries and in particular its failure to diversify and innovate competitively , is a very deep rooted one , about which there has been much controversy .
51 There has been much theoretical discussion of this possibility ( see Tirole , 1989 , ch. 9 ; Ordover and Saloner , 1989 ) .
52 There has been much confusion over their exact role for many years , but clearly there is room for a variety of provision : some rehabilitative , some permanent , some intense therapeutic communities , some experimental homes for disturbed adolescents .
53 There has been much anxiety about the role of local government in the last twenty years .
54 There has been much discussion recently about the value of the pound compared to the dollar .
55 There are a variety of sources ranging from the Urban programme of the Department of the Environment to charities but there has been much uncertainty about funding , the Legal Aid Annual Reports regularly referring to the financial problems of particular centres .
56 In recent years , there has been much debate about the role of the C. and A.G. The office is an old and distinguished one .
57 In addition , there has been much space devoted to the discussion of assessment , with the APU Report offering the most comprehensive attempt so far , with its proposal of an actual model of how this might be structured .
58 Because of their apparent similarity to banks and their rapid expansion of recent years , there has been much discussion about their impact on banks , as competitors , and upon the money supply .
59 Concerning this there has been much speculation .
60 There has been much important work in the past decade demystifying the editorial practice of scholarship , revealing the ideological or other cultural desires editors assume .
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