Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [be] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards . |
| 4 | Although there has been much research on the determination of asset prices , there has been little research on what determines the volume of turnover in asset markets . |
| 5 | Some " disappeared " prisoners are transferred because there has been much publicity about their capture , but this is by no means always the case . |
| 6 | While there had been much speculation about the state of Diana 's marriage , the stories Morton gathered from friends such as Caroline Bartholomew , James Gilbey and Diana 's brother Charles were dynamite . |
| 7 | While there has been much research on the short term memory system of the type used to , eg , remember telephone numbers , relatively little is known about the nature of temporary memory for information which is held in the focus of attention during reading and conversation ( ‘ foregrounded' information ) . |
| 8 | While there has been much speculation as to the cause of these phenomena , the corpus of relevant empirical research remains small . |
| 9 | There would appear to be some untold facts about Blea Moor Tunnel as there has been much speculation but very little facts of details . |
| 10 | Pursuant to the reply that the Minister gave earlier to the hon. Member for Ross , Cromarty and Skye ( Mr. Kennedy ) , and as there has been much speculation that there will be no GATT settlement at all this year , will the Minister confirm that , should there be no GATT settlement , he will oppose the MacSharry proposals for the rest of this year ? |
| 11 | The two directives have not yet been enshrined in statute , though there has been much fanciful discussion about what might happen . |
| 12 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 13 | In the rest of this chapter I will explain our thinking as clearly as I can , for there has been much misunderstanding . |