Example sentences of "been [vb pp] much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Over the past hundred years there has never been a real commitment to the formation of a contemporary art collection and the cost of establishing one has not been given much thought ’ , says Corral . |
| 2 | ‘ This has been given much discussion and at the moment we have used all the available funds . ’ |
| 3 | But the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent development of Soviet society produced an emphasis upon another strand in Marxist thought about the transition to socialism ( one which had not hitherto been given much prominence ) involving the idea of the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ; and in the specific conditions prevailing in Russia , which differed entirely from those in Western Europe , this soon evolved in practice into the dictatorship of the Bolshevik party , then the dictatorship of the party 's central committee , and finally the dictatorship of a single individual . |
| 4 | Pereira , 21 , was once world junior champion but is now world-ranked 154 and would not have been given much chance of defeating Borg when the Swede was in his prime . |
| 5 | In terms of the future of formal education , priority has been given to achievement of non-racial education , and neither questions of female access and achievement , nor the gendered content of educational materials , have been given much attention . |
| 6 | If that was all there was to it , we could be pardoned some uneasiness ; we might feel that we have n't been shown much reason for supposing that there are any sentences such that all who understand them will agree on their truth-value no matter what the circumstances . |