Example sentences of "not [been] much [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United Arab Emirates , notably Abu Dhabi , Dubai , and Sharjah ( there are seven emirates ) have not been much affected by the Iran/Iraq war . |
| 2 | Interest-rate subsidies have attracted more notice , but the comparative cost of credits in different currencies has not been much explored . |
| 3 | The history linked with the sea has been , and is being , well documented ; and the land has been exhaustively covered by the historians ; but the littoral — the borderline area where the land is interwoven with the sea , not merely m the physical sense but chiefly in its folk-life or human connotation — has not been much studied . |
| 4 | The remark has not been much noticed , but its implications must undermine the way in which ‘ practical criticism ’ is often employed in literary education . |
| 5 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 6 | The layout of the original house had not been much altered and there was a pleasing absence of fluorescent lights and plastic furniture . |