Example sentences of "[be] [pron] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there much competition between people at work , or are you united in fighting external competition ? |
| 2 | There are few diamonds to be found , nor is there much cocoa ; and considering the amount of space the Pacific commands it might seem a little odd ( unless one remembers the geology ) that only a fifth of the world 's proven oil reserves are there . |
| 3 | The novel , after all , did n't arise when belief in God arose ; nor , for that matter , is there much correlation between those novelists who believed most strongly in the omniscient narrator and those who believed most strongly in the omniscient creator . |
| 4 | Is there much emphasis on training , and if so is it based on action ‘ Learn as you do ’ or the more traditional ‘ Talk and chalk ’ ? |
| 5 | Neither is there much evidence that the share of the small firm sector is falling as the Japanese economy becomes more mature : over the 1970s the share actually increased from 51 per cent to 58 per cent . |
| 6 | Nor is there much evidence that women 's attitudes towards sex changed significantly during this period . |
| 7 | Nor is there much evidence pointing to their general education as the origin of their vision and managerial skill . |
| 8 | ‘ Is there much difference in age ? ’ |
| 9 | Is there much difference between this sort of arrangement and that prevailing at Lourdes today ? |
| 10 | Is there much mackerel around ? |
| 11 | Nor is there much indication that affluence has encouraged the desire to seek acceptance in new social milieux at higher status levels . |
| 12 | ‘ But is there much business to attend to ? ’ |
| 13 | Nor was there much evidence of concern in the correspondence columns of The Times — that bush-telegraph of respectable opinion — which were absorbed with more pressing matters such as the scarcity of swallows in England that summer . |
| 14 | Nor was there much evidence elsewhere , even before the open disturbances of the late 1980s , that non-Russian nationalities were merging their identity into that of a greater Soviet community . |
| 15 | Nor was there much inclination in France to pursue an active military policy . |
| 16 | Federal laws governing hazardous waste were not then in effect , nor was there much money to clean up tips . |
| 17 | Nor was there much room for individual initiative . |
| 18 | Nor was it much consolation to the church that the extension of prohibitions was less the result of deliberate crown policy ( though the king certainly assisted by the provision of new writs ) than of popular demand among suitors , often clergy litigating against clergy . |