Example sentences of "much had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underlying problem was , perhaps , that too much had been expected of the Queen . |
| 2 | Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum . |
| 3 | He did not know how much had been paid but believed it was less than £50m . |
| 4 | What these sewers carried was not sanitary ordure — that continued to be collected or even — illegally — dumped in cesspits : for the cost of separating out the effluent so frightened the Municipal Council of the city that even by 1870 nothing much had been done . |
| 5 | It had already been stripped of the lighting side of its business , the more profitable side , and now the tramway undertaking was to be absorbed into the unified transport system , of which so much had been heard . |
| 6 | Too much had been taken from the ethos of the boys ' schools , including blazers and ties , which are hangovers from male attire of the Edwardian era . |
| 7 | Here altars would be set up within the charnel and the priest would sing the mass in the company of a silent and skeletal congregation — or bits of them , depending on how much had been retrieved from the disturbed graves . |
| 8 | It has no cellars in which material could have been stored for safety , and it is not known how much had been removed elsewhere . |
| 9 | The First World " War interrupted the process , but it is clear that much had been done by 1914 . |
| 10 | Ruth 's thoughts flinched from what it must feel like to be Fand — she seemed hardly to exist , so much had been taken from her . |
| 11 | Too much had been vested in his first family . |
| 12 | Besides , too much had been laid bare in the wake of Samantha 's disappearance to be forgotten however soon she reappeared . |
| 13 | He wondered how much had been passed on to Kenamun , though it was unlikely that Merymose had told the priest everything . |
| 14 | Too much had been hidden too long . |
| 15 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |