Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 2 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 3 | There had been much discussion in the street on this very topic . |
| 4 | While there had been much speculation about the state of Diana 's marriage , the stories Morton gathered from friends such as Caroline Bartholomew , James Gilbey and Diana 's brother Charles were dynamite . |
| 5 | ‘ It was quite obvious that they had been much more to each other than just friends , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |
| 7 | Ironically , it was a track which Lauda had always opposed on safety grounds and there had been much discussion about the Ring 's lack of safeguards and medical access ( the track is so long , – kilometres , that marshals and safety equipment were not only widely scattered but often whole stretches of the track , such as that where Niki 's car went off , could not be seen from any marshal 's post ) . |
| 8 | Tom had been much more of a snob than she was . |
| 9 | There had been much dispute in the British Cabinet , and among the higher ranking military , as to where this relatively small but experienced and professional army should be deployed . |
| 10 | First , from way back in his Edinburgh days and his apprenticeship to Robert Grant in invertebrate zoology , he had been much pre-occupied with comprehensive generalizations about sexual and asexual modes of generation ( Sloan , personal communication ) . |
| 11 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 12 | Here they felt there had been much progress . |
| 13 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |
| 14 | That night there had been much wine at dinner and Flavia , though far from drunk , felt warmed , free . |
| 15 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 16 | Before the party , there had been much careful planning and changing of plan . |
| 17 | Prior to the meeting there had been much speculation that Shamir would face a challenge at the meeting ; in the event even Sharon urged the party to unite behind Shamir . |
| 18 | There had been much insistence among Slovaks that the country 's name had to be hyphenated in order to make explicit the separate and equal identity of the two nations , whereas many Czechs felt that the issue was divisive and that the state 's title should be merely shortened by removing the word " Socialist " . |
| 19 | There had been much discussion about the music . |
| 20 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |
| 21 | In his opening address to conference , the association chairman , John Harris , said there had been much misguided , misleading , and in some cases mischievous comment on child care issues during the last two years . |
| 22 | ‘ It is declared that a good wife is a crown to her husband , but Mrs. Crawley had been much more than a crown to him … she had been crown , throne and sceptre all in one ’ . |