Example sentences of "[been] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 2 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |
| 3 | There had been so much to admire in Ewan , even though he 'd been so self-centred . |
| 4 | In the event it had not been so much religious ‘ discrimination ’ as the limits imposed by lack of money and of land in over-built ancient towns and villages . |
| 5 | Perhaps it has really been so much hot air . |
| 6 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 7 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 8 | We felt this was important and valuable for otherwise she would have been so much in the company of adults . |
| 9 | Not since Harold Wilson prattled on about the white heat of the technological revolution — or some similar meaningless platitude — and launched Concorde , has there been so much talk about innovation and our intellectual heritage . |
| 10 | There has been so much talk of saturated and unsaturated fats that most people have heard of them . |
| 11 | There has been so much mourning to do . |
| 12 | There had been so much blood , but … |
| 13 | than if it had been so much inert luggage . |
| 14 | This is largely because there has always been so much more speculation than information about the personal stability of Perry Farrell . |
| 15 | Public tastes and current architecture have never been so much at odds . |
| 16 | There 's been so much doom and gloom around it 's nice to have some good news . ’ |
| 17 | This means that older children must be encouraged to discuss famous texts critically , must be aware of the reasons why the traditional English canon , from Chaucer to George Eliot , has been so much under attack in recent years . |
| 18 | There had been so much misfortune that to endure any more would be as a dumb beast might endure it ; and what would become of Dinah and the child ? |
| 19 | Experts say there has never been so much free time available to so many people . |
| 20 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 21 | There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere . |
| 22 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 23 | The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries . |
| 24 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 25 | To explore why there has been so much flux in the structures of competition , some basic distinctions are needed . |
| 26 | Besides , there had been so much in the Exhibition that might be clearly seen as innocuous , if not actually beneficial to God 's cause . |
| 27 | As instability of h is extremely common , it is remarkable that careful scholars could have been so much aware of this type of evidence , but could nevertheless have rejected it . |
| 28 | Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health . |
| 29 | Gone were the colourful historical scenes that had been so much in favour with the Hung Mao . |
| 30 | There could have been so much important material in what has been called " The Domesday Book of the Highlands and Islands . " |