Example sentences of "[been] [verb] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 2 | ‘ Been seeing much of McCloy lately , Charlie ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 4 | ‘ You been seeing much of him recently ? ’ |
| 5 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 6 | Pereira , 21 , was once world junior champion but is now world-ranked 154 and would not have been given much chance of defeating Borg when the Swede was in his prime . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ This has been given much discussion and at the moment we have used all the available funds . ’ |
| 9 | One or two tribes have been given much more time on the radio than others . |
| 10 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |
| 11 | An approach to the examination of social policy has been introduced here that has not been given much explicit attention in relation to the study of specific policies . |
| 12 | " To him who has been given much , much will also be required " . " |
| 13 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 14 | Biazon had been given much of the credit for the successful loyalist defence of Camp Aguinaldo during the December 1989 coup attempt [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 15 | Although folk-dance is embedded in their way of life , ballet has long been regarded much as the diplomatic service is in Britain : good money , plenty of respect and no political controversies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 20 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 21 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 22 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 23 | The other methods listed have been used much less . |
| 24 | Yeah , put the cover back on just in case , cos you can cut yourself , it 's never been used much and it 's really like new sharp . |
| 25 | If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances . |
| 26 | Mining operations for oil-shale and coal had been providing much new information which showed that the original maps of Central Scotland were inaccurate in places . |
| 27 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |
| 28 | I have n't been doing much on Sunday . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |