Example sentences of "had [been] much [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been much comforted by Craig 's presence in the house these past weeks , but in her heart she had known the situation was an explosive one and could n't last . |
| 2 | Other Democratic presidents , Harry Truman and John Kennedy , had been less well favoured in terms of congressional support and had been much troubled by the deep divisions in the party between northern liberals and southern conservatives . |
| 3 | Churchill 's ideas concerning unemployment had been much influenced by Beveridge 's analysis of unemployment and by his proposals . |
| 4 | However , I had been much influenced , as an undergraduate , by the lectures of the literary critic ( author of The Language Poets use ) , who was now a senior colleague in my own Department . |
| 5 | The " Out " tray held two manila files , the top labelled " Chapel — Proposals for transfer to Department of the Environment , and the second , a large , old and unwieldy file which had been much mended , was marked " New Laboratory — Commissioning " . |
| 6 | As mentioned earlier in this chapter , Jacques had been much encouraged by the attitude of the Hertfordshire LEA and the negotiated increased grant-aid for classes and courses . |
| 7 | and of Churchill and Addison , had been much criticised . |
| 8 | He had been much taken with a small low-growing Kalmia at Whitton — from Pennsylvania so the Duke of Argyll had told him — but did not specifically request it . |
| 9 | Their ranks had been much augmented by the expansion of the salaried sector — managers , clerks , school teachers and civil servants . |
| 10 | Their distinctive features have been chronicled ( with evident pride ) by Schaffer ( 1970 ) and Evans ( 1972 ) ; the first because , as a civil servant , he had been much associated with the programme , the second because it was written for the Town and Country Planning Association , long the champions of planned dispersal . |
| 11 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 12 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 13 | Wilson found it hard to believe Mr Landor had ever written poetry , that he had ever been judged a great poet , but Miss Blagden , who had moved into the Casa Guidi for the winter , swore that he had been much admired and gave her a whole list of his published works . |
| 14 | Raving Red Sam had ridden a motor-bike once , she remembered , a job that had been much admired by the boys . |
| 15 | It had been much admired , for Mary brought it out time and again to show to favoured customers in the saloon bar . |
| 16 | There is a drawing of the yacht in the Sound of Islay and he went ashore at Port Askaig and into the house of the ferryman whilst a gig-cart was prepared to drive to " Shawfield on the opposite coast " where the grounds had been much embellished lately . |
| 17 | There is a drawing of the yacht in the Sound of Islay and he went ashore at Port Askaig and into the house of the ferryman whilst a gig-cart was prepared to drive to " Shawfield on the opposite coast " where the grounds had been much embellished lately . |