Example sentences of "[adv] [been] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has always been much speculation about the site of this region , guesses including East Africa , Abyssinia , Arabia , Spain , Armenia and Peru . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There has also been much learning , laughter and warmth which has extended the enjoyment and understanding of everybody involved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 7 | What kind of relationship did they have with erm white tenants Has there been much racial tension in the flats or has that been insignificant |
| 8 | Has there been much noise today ? |
| 9 | There has not yet been much debate about prices . |
| 10 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 11 | It was obvious that the air raid siren had never been much more to them than a bore . |
| 12 | Never been much of a book fan either . |
| 13 | Edna had never been much of a letter writer , preferring to send illustrated cards with emotive printed messages at Christmas and on birthdays . |
| 14 | Tapping his cheese knife in rhythm on the edge of the table , Martin said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've noticed , but there 's never been much love lost between your mother and me . |
| 15 | He 's never been much help to his father . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There 's never been much of a plan , so there 's no reason to cancel out any initial plans of getting degrees and going on and doing something else . ’ |
| 17 | There had never been much of a garden , only the rhododendrons flowering red and pink and lilac , where bees droned happily . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's never been much of a man for dancing , not unless he 's drunk and then he 'll dance with the best of them . ’ |
| 19 | He had never been much of a fellow for breasts . |
| 20 | It 's the blues that never been never been much of a problem really . |
| 21 | But there 's never been much interest around here . |
| 22 | There had never been much spare cash in the Burrows household . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've never been much of an exam passer . ’ |
| 24 | You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then . |
| 25 | There 's never been much doubt about Kitson . |
| 26 | I could see a barge or something out there in the middle of the Thames but I 've never been much good with boats . |
| 27 | ‘ Nelson , I 've just never been much of a dancer . |
| 28 | There has recently been much publicity about the possible ‘ unification ’ of two of Nature 's forces . |
| 29 | Microcomputers have been a rapid growth area in the electronics industry , as well as one in which there has recently been much concern over the success and viability of UK companies . |
| 30 | Geoffrey Miller , an independent estate agent in Tavistock , Devon , confirms this trend : ‘ There has certainly been much more activity in the market in recent months , particularly cash buyers looking for bargains . ’ |