Example sentences of "been much [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 2 | There has been much unprofitable speculation about whether John XXIII could have concluded the Council successfully . |
| 3 | With IBM UK Ltd taking away its RS/6000s and PS/2s and Digital Equipment UK Ltd ready to end its agreement with ICL Plc 's Technology Plc personal computer and workstation distribution acquisition , there has been much frenzied speculation that Sun Microsystems Inc and Compaq Computer Corp are ready to withdraw their products too , and that ICL has dropped a very big brick on its foot in buying the company . |
| 4 | There seems to have been much genuine enthusiasm for the renewal of war with France in the early eighteenth century . |
| 5 | THERE has not been much good news for tigers recently , so conservationists are astonished by the noises coming out of Beijing . |
| 6 | There has been much adverse publicity concerning food poisoning caused by soft cheeses . |
| 7 | There has n't been much personal satisfaction for Neil Fairbrother during a Lancashire campaign bedevilled by injuries and under-achievement , but what more efficacious balm for his troubles than a century in the Roses match at Headingley . |
| 8 | There had never been much spare cash in the Burrows household . |
| 9 | It is from this stance that there has been much recent emphasis on subject depth in the training of teachers , and a virtual embargo on teaching for those with degrees in subjects ‘ not on the school timetable ’ . |
| 10 | There has been much recent work by psychologists and linguists on these early stages of acquisition that has direct relevance to pragmatics , but is not reviewed in this book ( see e.g. Ervin-Tripp & Mitchell-Kernan , 1977 ; Snow & Ferguson , 1977 Ochs & Schieffelin , 1979 ; and the critical account of such work in M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | The chapter begins , then , by focusing on a phenomenon about which there has been much recent discussion — deindustrialization . |
| 12 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |
| 13 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 14 | Geoffrey Miller , an independent estate agent in Tavistock , Devon , confirms this trend : ‘ There has certainly been much more activity in the market in recent months , particularly cash buyers looking for bargains . ’ |
| 15 | The far bigger prehistoric apes must have found it much harder and therefore have been much more terrestrial . |
| 16 | ‘ There has been much grievous suffering for everyone involved in this case . |
| 17 | Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards . |
| 18 | What kind of relationship did they have with erm white tenants Has there been much racial tension in the flats or has that been insignificant |
| 19 | Half the racing world seemed to have embraced the occasion , for which after the last race that afternoon there had been much speedy unrolling of glittering black and silver ceiling-to-floor curtaining , transforming the workaday interior of the grandstand into something ephemerally magnificent . |
| 20 | In recent years , there has been much commercial development here ; the facilities have been greatly improved for the fishing vessels and the huge container lorries that transport the catch to the wholesale markets in the cities . |
| 21 | It is a controversial establishment because it is entirely staffed by NSA personnel and there has been much local discussion as to whether the station operates in the interests of Australia or only America . |
| 22 | There has been much important work in the past decade demystifying the editorial practice of scholarship , revealing the ideological or other cultural desires editors assume . |
| 23 | 9 Equity , law and property There has been much academic discussion about the nature of the law of confidence . |
| 24 | There has been much academic debate about the ambit of s3 . |
| 25 | There has been much theoretical discussion of this possibility ( see Tirole , 1989 , ch. 9 ; Ordover and Saloner , 1989 ) . |
| 26 | Before the party , there had been much careful planning and changing of plan . |
| 27 | As you may know , there has been much scientific argument about the ways such traits appear . |
| 28 | The two directives have not yet been enshrined in statute , though there has been much fanciful discussion about what might happen . |
| 29 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |