Example sentences of "[been] very much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Lately , he 's been very much in love because he saw the April issue of Dogs Today with Julian Clary 's dog , Fanny , on the cover . |
| 3 | Once it must have been very much on its own , but now there are modern houses within spitting distance . |
| 4 | In terms of self-education or self-development ( or whatever term is used ) , the provision of educational material has always been very much part of the public library 's brief . |
| 5 | Thus far , the emphasis has been very much on the natural science aspects of environmental monitoring and prediction . |
| 6 | I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved . |
| 7 | Most user education programmes have so far been very much of a local nature with little attempt to communicate experience to others . |
| 8 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |
| 9 | If you have been very much home-based , you may need some encouragement from your partner in getting involved in community activities or a hobby ; and it may be necessary , in order to avoid being over dependent on another person . |
| 10 | It must be stressed that this is only a possibility ( and that the explanation has been very much simplified ) , but more and more researches are showing that it probably approximates to the truth . |
| 11 | Criticising this development , Lyons says : ‘ Linguists have been very much concerned in recent years with the postulation of universals of language structure and have all too often discounted the differences among languages ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Deer have been very much part of my life , and I hope these notes have been of interest and helpful in understanding why stalking takes place . |
| 13 | It seems to me that we are inclining to be very inconsistent in regard to two matters which have recently been very much before us . |
| 14 | He had , I think , been very much underrated . |
| 15 | Aldfrith appears to have been very much on the periphery of Northumbrian dynastic life before his accession . |
| 16 | You have been very much in Mark Underwood 's company , have you not ? |
| 17 | I find that actually speaking to people my dad , mum and dad , well my mum works in an office , my dad works in a factory , and they 've always been very much sort of you know go out and get your education and |
| 18 | This has been a year when pensions have been very much to the fore . |
| 19 | I endorse what the hon. Gentleman says about the responsibility that politicians of all constitutional parties have , and a willingness so to talk has been very much present in recent years . |
| 20 | The issue has been very much on the minds of some of the current councillors after the South Eastern Education and Library Board decided to place Lisburn above Bangor in the priority list for new library premises . |
| 21 | Redundancies , short-time working , bonus cuts and the like have been very much the order of the day we 've had the twenty percent job cuts at Blue Circle Cement which are mentioned specifically in the report and we 've also seen significant additional job losses at British Gypsum in the brick industry and in many other sectors of the building materials industry . |
| 22 | Very often in therapeutic groups they do claim not to , but in fact er the leader does play a very dominant role er and even when the attention shifts to members of course , the fact that all the other members are watching them means that their reactions and what they say and think and do in a group would have been very much constrained by their actions and expectations o of the other members . |
| 23 | Her work has been very much as ‘ back-room ’ for her husband in his political career , and jointly with him in their shared interests — two books on the church architecture of London and one on Northern Lazio in Italy . |
| 24 | She felt that her success had been very much due to the ‘ enterprise society ’ . |
| 25 | However , in so far as such social features are part of the meaning of utterances , they ought also to be treated in pragmatics ; yet within pragmatics , these social constraints on language usage and their systematic effects on language structure , have been very much understudied , perhaps as a result of the philosophical and linguistic bias ( no doubt reflected in this book ) towards what Buhler ( 1934 ) called the representational , and Jakobson ( 1960 ) the referential , function of language . |
| 26 | If Sara did but know it , he had been very much against the provisions of the will . |
| 27 | Gentle and unassuming , she had been very much in her daughter 's hands . |
| 28 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 29 | These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement . |
| 30 | That 's quite specific to the tax bracket but the source of work in Leeds has been very much from er corporate finance and from the insolvency practice , whilst that is er obviously a way forward for us in the initial stages . |