Example sentences of "have been [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus far , the emphasis has been very much on the natural science aspects of environmental monitoring and prediction . |
| 2 | I am sure our experience with our youngest child has been very much due to the fact that the whole family has been involved . |
| 3 | It must be stressed that this is only a possibility ( and that the explanation has been very much simplified ) , but more and more researches are showing that it probably approximates to the truth . |
| 4 | I endorse what the hon. Gentleman says about the responsibility that politicians of all constitutional parties have , and a willingness so to talk has been very much present in recent years . |
| 5 | The issue has been very much on the minds of some of the current councillors after the South Eastern Education and Library Board decided to place Lisburn above Bangor in the priority list for new library premises . |
| 6 | Her work has been very much as ‘ back-room ’ for her husband in his political career , and jointly with him in their shared interests — two books on the church architecture of London and one on Northern Lazio in Italy . |
| 7 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 8 | That 's quite specific to the tax bracket but the source of work in Leeds has been very much from er corporate finance and from the insolvency practice , whilst that is er obviously a way forward for us in the initial stages . |
| 9 | CUSHENDALL 'S determination to hold onto their Antrim senior hurling crown has been very much in evidence during this year 's campaign to date . |
| 10 | McGilligan 's subsequent achievements in the Ireland jersey have been well chronicled and since then the Dungiven joiner has been very much up with the big boys . |
| 11 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 12 | Yes , certainly , the erm place where such diagnostic systems came from , I think , was certainly the States , and most research has been done there — Stanford in particular has been very much involved in this so-called expert system . |
| 13 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 14 | erm The Health Service has been very much male-orientated . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ There has been too much talk about the job and not enough about our position in the League . |
| 16 | Hussey denies the charge that he has been too much of a ‘ hands-on ’ chairman . |
| 17 | There has been too much diversion of activity towards the idea of maintaining simple diversity in the living systems of the planet . |
| 18 | I believe that there has been too much attention to ordering of content — which is an easy job — and too little in considering the process — which is a very difficult one . |
| 19 | There has been too much upheaval , too much conflict , too much misunderstanding , about farming and the countryside . |
| 20 | Some critics say there has not been enough action over Aids while others complain there has been too much . |
| 21 | Many teachers in Britain regard verbal arts , under the guise of ‘ creative writing ’ , with suspicion because often there has been too much emphasis on free expression . |
| 22 | Historically there has been too much reliance on ex post financial accountability in the form of audit reports and ad hoc investigations . |
| 23 | Even the very limited amount of competition and market liberalisation proposed in the Electricity and Gas Directives has been too much for the German ( highly inefficient ) coal-mining interests to swallow . |
| 24 | For those who have survived the recession intact there has been too much self-interest , need and greed , stab and grab , call it what you will , and companies I believe are suddenly beginning to realise that integrity , ethics and pragmatism may have a ‘ bottom line ’ value in the years to come that the accountant 's profit culture attitude may change a little . |
| 25 | Similarly it was in a private letter that a Cornish mine agent wrote in 1793 : The common tinners continue to be very refractory and insolent : many of them refuse to work , and have not gone underground for three weeks past — They have no cause for it for their wages have been rather too high lately than otherwise ; the consequence has been too much brandy drinking and other bad practices . |
| 26 | ‘ There has been too much of that already , ’ said Owen . |
| 27 | And my enormous thanks go to my own Table , Chester seventy six , very very true friends indeed and the same for the whole of my own area , Area thirty six Wirral and the Marches , where nothing has been too much trouble and they are here today as you 've just seen in some considerable strength . |
| 28 | In the four general elections held since independence the turnover of MPs has been as much as 50 per cent . |
| 29 | In more recent times the functioning of Swedish industrial relations has been as much , if not more , dependent upon the centralisation of power within the employers ' confederation as upon the unions ' peak organisation . |
| 30 | In some areas of Scotland , the rise has been as much as 35 per cent . |