Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] much " in BNC.

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1 In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population .
2 In terms of the future of formal education , priority has been given to achievement of non-racial education , and neither questions of female access and achievement , nor the gendered content of educational materials , have been given much attention .
3 One or two tribes have been given much more time on the radio than others .
4 Seasonal conditions which inhibited or prevented travel on the roads have been made much of by historians , but the mushrooming growth in scheduled services after 1760 is testimony to a substantial improvement in this respect .
5 More recently , record company and music publishing A&R staff have been assessing much of the same talent from different standpoints .
6 As the Russian-Cuban and Chinese plans develop for Southern Africa , I have been spending much of the past four weeks working with a man who played a part twenty years ago in developing these plans .
7 The other methods listed have been used much less .
8 At the same time , another Alloway family , contemporaries and friends of the Burns family , have been paid much less attention than their interesting story deserves .
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