Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ This has been given much discussion and at the moment we have used all the available funds . ’ |
| 4 | One or two tribes have been given much more time on the radio than others . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " To him who has been given much , much will also be required " . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The other methods listed have been used much less . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Around £2,000 of the target figure has already been banked much of it following the fund raising activities of Albert 's colleagues . |
| 17 | I asked him whether I was right in supposing that over the years British music had been influenced much more by the Continent than vice-versa . |
| 18 | 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 . |