Example sentences of "[adv] [been] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 2 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 3 | IT HAS not been much of a week for Welsh politicians because the country 's resounding rejection of Mr Neil Kinnock has been followed by the decision of the International Rugby Board to ignore the reservations expressed by the Welsh Rugby Union and to hold the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 4 | Iveco 's official language is English , but Mr Aimetti concedes that , in spite of a lot of effort to get people to learn a second language , there has not been much success . |
| 5 | THERE has not been much good news for tigers recently , so conservationists are astonished by the noises coming out of Beijing . |
| 6 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ The Church has not been much involved in the circles of healing . |
| 8 | It 's not been much fun so far , ’ she said mournfully . |
| 9 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 10 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 11 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 12 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 13 | there 's not been much change |
| 14 | There has always been much speculation about the site of this region , guesses including East Africa , Abyssinia , Arabia , Spain , Armenia and Peru . |
| 15 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |
| 16 | Those who have espoused the notion of retrieval failure have not usually been much concerned with specifying what it is that is learned during pre-exposure ; rather , their experiments have been designed to show that , whatever the source on interference may be , it acts at retrieval rather than on the formation of the CS-US association . |
| 17 | There has also been much learning , laughter and warmth which has extended the enjoyment and understanding of everybody involved . |
| 18 | We have in this paper so far been much concerned with the systematic classroom development of teaching units , looking towards the publication of such units to a very wide audience . |
| 19 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 20 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 21 | There probably had n't been much dust lying around in a palace . |
| 22 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 23 | He tried hard not to wonder why the word had n't been much more than a growl . |
| 24 | There has n't been much personal satisfaction for Neil Fairbrother during a Lancashire campaign bedevilled by injuries and under-achievement , but what more efficacious balm for his troubles than a century in the Roses match at Headingley . |
| 25 | There has n't been much opportunity to do anything new , but there is a painting which will be the final work in the catalogue and which I have yet to complete . |
| 26 | But there has n't been much call |
| 27 | It had n't been much of a picture for dreaming on . |
| 28 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 29 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 30 | It 's stayed around about the eight just over eight percent , there has n't , there has n't been much movement . |