Example sentences of "been [verb] 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 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 7 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 8 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 9 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I know you have n't been doing any English and that , but erm , have you have you been doing much reading ? |
| 12 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |