Example sentences of "[adv] been much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not been much fun so far , ’ she said mournfully . |
| 2 | Iveco 's official language is English , but Mr Aimetti concedes that , in spite of a lot of effort to get people to learn a second language , there has not been much success . |
| 3 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 4 | Later that day , All-India Radio quoted Narasimha Rao as saying that " there has not been much progress on the border issue with China " . |
| 5 | there 's not been much change |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 8 | Although the Cecchini Report provided some estimates of the likely changes in prices in the member states , there has not been much investigation of these issues . |
| 9 | The regional administrator was able to report to the RHA at the end of the consultation period in November 1982 that ‘ there had not been much opposition to the proposed closures ’ . |
| 10 | There has always been much speculation about the site of this region , guesses including East Africa , Abyssinia , Arabia , Spain , Armenia and Peru . |
| 11 | There has also been much learning , laughter and warmth which has extended the enjoyment and understanding of everybody involved . |
| 12 | But there has n't been much call |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It 's stayed around about the eight just over eight percent , there has n't , there has n't been much movement . |
| 15 | There has n't been much movement in the way of players this season , but two Senior One teams — Lisnagarvey and Mossley — have new coaches . |
| 16 | There probably had n't been much dust lying around in a palace . |
| 17 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 18 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 19 | Has there been much noise today ? |
| 20 | There has not yet been much debate about prices . |
| 21 | Tapping his cheese knife in rhythm on the edge of the table , Martin said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've noticed , but there 's never been much love lost between your mother and me . |
| 22 | There 's never been much doubt about Kitson . |
| 23 | He 's never been much help to his father . ’ |
| 24 | You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then . |
| 25 | But there 's never been much interest around here . |
| 26 | Microcomputers have been a rapid growth area in the electronics industry , as well as one in which there has recently been much concern over the success and viability of UK companies . |
| 27 | There has recently been much publicity about the possible ‘ unification ’ of two of Nature 's forces . |