Example sentences of "been much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which expands on the Tashi character from The Color Purple in her tale of female circumcision , of which there has been much coverage . |
| 2 | There has n't been much opportunity to do anything new , but there is a painting which will be the final work in the catalogue and which I have yet to complete . |
| 3 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 4 | In the UK there has been much discussion about teaching stall recoveries with a view to making it all easier for the beginner to understand and remember . |
| 5 | There has been much discussion recently of the nature of literary canons ; university teachers of English are seen as both initiators and guardians of the canon ( as , for instance , by Kermode in his essay , ‘ Institutional Control of Interpretation ’ ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There had been much discussion in the street on this very topic . |
| 8 | There has been much discussion over the last decade about an ‘ entitlement ’ curriculum . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Over the autumn there 's been much discussion on Scottish winter grades . |
| 11 | There has been much discussion of the need to increase the speed at which new products are brought to the marketplace and a ‘ rugby team ’ in contrast to a ‘ relay ’ approach to project management has been suggested as a way of making faster progress ( Takeuchi and Nonaka , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | In Britain these are in a state of flux although there has been much discussion about the role of the inspector over a long period of time . |
| 13 | There has been much discussion of attempts to increase labour force " flexibility " and the rise of the " flexible firm " , although it is not always clear if this discussion is based upon descriptions , predictions or prescriptions . |
| 14 | There has been much discussion recently about the value of the pound compared to the dollar . |
| 15 | Because of their apparent similarity to banks and their rapid expansion of recent years , there has been much discussion about their impact on banks , as competitors , and upon the money supply . |
| 16 | There had been much discussion about the music . |
| 17 | Recently there has been much discussion about new treatments for menorrhagia . |
| 18 | There has been much discussion of recent SNP parliamentary tactics . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | There 's never been much doubt about Kitson . |
| 21 | He 's never been much help to his father . ’ |
| 22 | You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't suppose it 's been much help . ’ |
| 24 | Prior to the reform of the market in October 1986 ( see below ) all transactions were on behalf of customers but subsequently there has been much trading between market makers as well as transactions with customers as the table shows . |
| 25 | Has there been much noise today ? |
| 26 | In addition , there has been much space devoted to the discussion of assessment , with the APU Report offering the most comprehensive attempt so far , with its proposal of an actual model of how this might be structured . |
| 27 | Here they felt there had been much progress . |
| 28 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 29 | Before the meeting , you know at the moment John Major is in Moscow , erm before that meeting there 'll have been much work done by the officials on briefing papers , on trying to identify the potential issues that are going to come up in the meeting , there 'll have been a lot of background work that would be similar er to patterns of relationships between various departments erm in any process of decision making . |
| 30 | There is no real news there of the owl , but someone suggests that I try the hills above Núpur where there has been much activity lately . |