Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen has been away so much , and is so obsessed with building another hotel , we eat , sleep and drink it . ’ |
| 2 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
| 3 | Since they published the ’ Sanitary Protection Scandal ’ ( a report on the production of sanitary towels , tampons and ’ disposable ’ nappies and their health and environmental implications ) , the level of response has been almost too much for WEN 's small City Road office . |
| 4 | Colin MacLeod , chairman and owner of Nottinghamshire-based Caledonian Mining , which competed against the consortium for the pit , said : ‘ There has been far too much in the press about the poor miners being done and that we were the big bad boys coming up to take over . |
| 5 | In the 1840s the aim would have been not so much to save the debtor 's soul as to save his creditors the expense and boredom of having to sue him . |
| 6 | And , and in a sense , not to be explicit , would , would have been not so much a crime , but would have been an error I think . |
| 7 | Perhaps the Prime Minister ( with his Standard Chartered schooling ) considered that a third Rothschild man at the Treasury would have been just too much . |
| 8 | It was not heavy at all and moving would have been just too much effort . |
| 9 | She was close to cracking up now , these final revelations had been just too much for her , she could n't cope with them , not on top of everything else that had happened today . |
| 10 | It had been altogether too much to expect . |
| 11 | John Dunner , the head of the National Radiological Protection Board , in an aside , made the interesting suggestion that perhaps there had been altogether too much information available about nuclear energy , rather than too little , ready material to use , either uncomprehendingly or fully aware , to stoke up polemical fires . |
| 12 | That sleeping peaceful beauty had been almost too much for her . |
| 13 | They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale . |
| 14 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 15 | There 's been altogether too much guilt — too much pain already . |
| 16 | She 's been under too much stress I think . |