Example sentences of "[adj] have been [vb pp] about " in BNC.

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1 Very little has been said about the boom in modern prints .
2 Whilst a number of writers have commented upon his contributions to debates upon current policy problems , little has been said about the theoretical basis of these contributions .
3 WHILST much has been said about the abilities of the players , the coaches , the referees , the managers etc , little has been said about the standards of journalism .
4 Very little has been said about what actually happens or , at least , there are still few readily available accounts of school evaluations conducted by teachers .
5 In this chapter I shall write only about women in the last group and their position in the British labour market since very little has been written about them .
6 Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions .
7 So far relatively little has been written about the use of review meetings or family meetings in work with elderly people , although their value in practice is increasingly being recognised .
8 Although comparatively little has been written about the professions in the UK there are those who see these occupations in the same altruistic light .
9 Much has been written about the subject in terms of the various packages , both actually available and merely promised , but remarkably little has been conveyed about their actual usefulness for the businessman .
10 Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election .
11 We also desperately need to install a safe and economical heating system — this has been talked about for too many years .
12 This had been talked about by a few experienced bomber squadron commanders , notably Wg Cdrs " Willie " Tait , Charles Whitworth , Syd Bufton and , of course , " Jimmy " Marks who , as bomber pilots .
13 Much has been said about the ‘ information revolution ’ in the NHS .
14 Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions .
15 WHILST much has been said about the abilities of the players , the coaches , the referees , the managers etc , little has been said about the standards of journalism .
16 First , much has been said about the immediate effects of industrial action on the process of the project .
17 Much has been said about what a Labour Government could and could not do , but I am certain that a Labour Government would set out with the best of intentions to improve the situation .
18 Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer .
19 Much has been written about the panic fear of invasion in the Armada year .
20 So much has been written about Monteverdi 's L'Orfeo that it may be difficult to believe that many of the puzzles can be answered through a study of Renaissance humanistic traditions .
21 Much has been written about the potential of genetic engineering to provide plentiful supplies of interferon and new vaccines .
22 While much has been written about the concentration of land and cattle-holdings , there is no information about who owns trees .
23 Much has been written about the need for multi-disciplinary approaches but we would prefer to support those who view their research problems without constraints on scientific discipline .
24 Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge .
25 So much has been written about this band , their every move painstakingly analysed , that it 's hard to add any startling insight , any new interpretation to the minutiae of Shaun 's behaviour .
26 Much has been written about this plant , but many misconceptions remain , partly because a great deal of what has been written is itself misleading .
27 MUCH has been written about the Gwili 's TVR No. 220 1891 vintage carriage which recently won second prize in the Scania competition and also appeared on BBC 's Blue Peter .
28 Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 .
29 Over the years so much has been written about pilots flying in the ‘ operational ’ phase , sometimes forgetting that all these pilots had to be trained .
30 Much has been written about Kaplan 's magnificent obsession with that work , and with the projects born of this love : his purchase of the manuscript , his subsequent publication in 1986 of a facsimile score with comprehensive documentation that stands as a touchstone in the field of book production .
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