Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adv] much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I endorse what the hon. Gentleman says about the responsibility that politicians of all constitutional parties have , and a willingness so to talk has been very much present in recent years . |
| 2 | erm The Health Service has been very much male-orientated . |
| 3 | Many teachers in Britain regard verbal arts , under the guise of ‘ creative writing ’ , with suspicion because often there has been too much emphasis on free expression . |
| 4 | Historically there has been too much reliance on ex post financial accountability in the form of audit reports and ad hoc investigations . |
| 5 | There has been too much upheaval , too much conflict , too much misunderstanding , about farming and the countryside . |
| 6 | For those who have survived the recession intact there has been too much self-interest , need and greed , stab and grab , call it what you will , and companies I believe are suddenly beginning to realise that integrity , ethics and pragmatism may have a ‘ bottom line ’ value in the years to come that the accountant 's profit culture attitude may change a little . |
| 7 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 8 | There has been too much diversion of activity towards the idea of maintaining simple diversity in the living systems of the planet . |
| 9 | I believe that there has been too much attention to ordering of content — which is an easy job — and too little in considering the process — which is a very difficult one . |
| 10 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ There has been too much talk about the job and not enough about our position in the League . |
| 12 | However , there has been so much midweek domestic football this season that all but the most committed supporters — 12,178 of them in Glasgow , 3,546 in Perth — turned their backs on Tuesday night 's matches . |
| 13 | There has been so much mourning to do . |
| 14 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 15 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 16 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 17 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 18 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 19 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 20 | There has been so much talk of saturated and unsaturated fats that most people have heard of them . |
| 21 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 22 | To explore why there has been so much flux in the structures of competition , some basic distinctions are needed . |
| 23 | Ireland has had so much , she thought ; there has been so much magic and so much strength , and now all of it has gone . |
| 24 | The local man replied " There would have been as much enthusiasm if you had done the same tonight . " |
| 25 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 26 | To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there ! |
| 27 | There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere . |
| 28 | It must have been too much heat or … something . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |
| 30 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |