Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There had been much discussion in the street on this very topic . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | There had been much discussion about the music . |
| 5 | Here they felt there had been much progress . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | While there had been much speculation about the state of Diana 's marriage , the stories Morton gathered from friends such as Caroline Bartholomew , James Gilbey and Diana 's brother Charles were dynamite . |
| 8 | Prior to the meeting there had been much speculation that Shamir would face a challenge at the meeting ; in the event even Sharon urged the party to unite behind Shamir . |
| 9 | There had been much dispute in the British Cabinet , and among the higher ranking military , as to where this relatively small but experienced and professional army should be deployed . |
| 10 | That night there had been much wine at dinner and Flavia , though far from drunk , felt warmed , free . |
| 11 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |
| 12 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |
| 13 | And as I say ’ ( Morse looked slowly around his audience ) ‘ it was one of your own group who performed this grisly task — a man — a man who would have felt little squeamishness about first stripping the dead man of his clothes — for there had been much blood , much messy , sticky blood which almost inevitably would have transferred itself to the clothes of the man disposing of the body ; a man who for the last ten years of his working life had been inured to such gruesome matters , as a moderately competent ‘ mortician ’ in America . ’ |