Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother was reported in the Star as saying : ‘ It has all been too much for her . |
| 2 | The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries . |
| 3 | THERE has not been so much breast-beating in the cinema since Bernadette . |
| 4 | There has not been too much building to spoil the village , and the population has not greatly altered over the years , so it is a pleasant village in which to live . |
| 5 | One of the problems , of course , is that , with the invariably available and endlessly enthusiastic Dixon having achieved the remarkable feat of being appointed to no fewer than five of Scotland 's summer tours , there has not been too much opportunity for anyone else to advance his claims . |
| 6 | This is largely because there has always been so much more speculation than information about the personal stability of Perry Farrell . |
| 7 | In terms of self-education or self-development ( or whatever term is used ) , the provision of educational material has always been very much part of the public library 's brief . |
| 8 | Perhaps it has really been so much hot air . |
| 9 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 10 | To date this explosion has n't been that much more than a damp November 5th squib , although it has undoubtedly increased the awareness of the business community that there is rather more to making a presentation than a hand-written flipchart . |
| 11 | Experts say there has never been so much free time available to so many people . |
| 12 | Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon . |
| 13 | and er the time was wasted , but you give an autumn leaf a little note saying what it , what you , what you wanted done there was n't much chance he could argue . |
| 14 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 15 | What must be noted here is that much of the strength of the political ethos propagated in prewar years rested on its incorporation and distortion of concepts and assumptions whose origins were far back in Japanese history , and which were broadly unquestioned by the majority of the population ; and that it was firmly integrated with the social system and standard code of morality and behaviour . |
| 16 | But perhaps it is better to avoid Rouen , the midday traffic going in and coming out is too much of a worry . |
| 17 | That was three-quarters of a century ago when most of those who fought here were not much more than boys . |
| 18 | ‘ The thought of not being there for them as they grew up was too much to bear , ’ she said . |
| 19 | The only exceptions are shots for television or for the Sunday colour magazines ; unless these have been specifically arranged there is not much point in worrying about them . |
| 20 | That 's another thing you ca n't get now is very much is chocolate blancmange . |
| 21 | But now , ’ he went on thoughtfully , ‘ I find that playing around is n't much fun any more . |
| 22 | In general , the complications introduced by having to predict changes both of system and of behaviour are so great that most forecasters assume that the system will not change ( except by evolution ) and claim that if everything is going to change there is not much point in having a forecast anyway because there will no longer be an organisation to act upon it . |
| 23 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 24 | There had already been too much of it in our novels . |
| 25 | In the event it had not been so much religious ‘ discrimination ’ as the limits imposed by lack of money and of land in over-built ancient towns and villages . |
| 26 | I find that actually speaking to people my dad , mum and dad , well my mum works in an office , my dad works in a factory , and they 've always been very much sort of you know go out and get your education and |
| 27 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 28 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 29 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |
| 30 | See th history of the union is I mean er but er you know it 's a it 's a process is n't it in in a way the management have are probably really kicking themselves now for what 's happened you know I mean , their li latest statement is er , Well if there had n't been so much ou outside interference I 'm sure we 'd have been able to settle . |