Example sentences of "[be] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK there has been much discussion about teaching stall recoveries with a view to making it all easier for the beginner to understand and remember . |
| 2 | Since Sherrington 's classic The Integrative Action of the Nervous System , there has been much talk of ‘ the integrative activity of the nervous system ’ , based upon the convergence of nervous pathways . |
| 3 | Since then home viewing has largely taken over from cinema going but there does not seem to have been much criticism of the format as such but perhaps more so the screen size . |
| 4 | There has been much discussion recently of the nature of literary canons ; university teachers of English are seen as both initiators and guardians of the canon ( as , for instance , by Kermode in his essay , ‘ Institutional Control of Interpretation ’ ) . |
| 5 | The despised belletrist criticism of an earlier day could make radical judgements in an off-hand manner ; those articles , for instance , with titles like ‘ On Rereading Stendhal ’ , which come to the conclusion that Stendhal has been much overrated . |
| 6 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 7 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 8 | There is no real news there of the owl , but someone suggests that I try the hills above Núpur where there has been much activity lately . |
| 9 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 10 | There has been much adverse publicity concerning food poisoning caused by soft cheeses . |
| 11 | There has not yet been much debate about prices . |
| 12 | There probably had n't been much dust lying around in a palace . |
| 13 | The alternative approach is to identify and eliminate TB-infected badgers , and there has been much interest recently in developing a TB test for use on live badgers . |
| 14 | Although about 350 farms a year become involved in providing accommodation , a fairly high percentage opts out , usually for family reasons , so there has not been much growth in the past 15 years . |
| 15 | It seemed that , psychologically , there had n't been much improvement in Tammuz since then . |
| 16 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There has been much controversy about the theory . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | IT HAS not been much of a week for Welsh politicians because the country 's resounding rejection of Mr Neil Kinnock has been followed by the decision of the International Rugby Board to ignore the reservations expressed by the Welsh Rugby Union and to hold the 1995 World Cup in South Africa . |
| 21 | There has been much talk in northern European countries about the need to achieve an integration between forestry and farming . |
| 22 | There has been much debate about this question of the unit of natural selection . |
| 23 | There has been much debate recently regarding the quality of meat used in pre-cooked meals , convenience foods and in the fast service restaurant industry . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As you may know , there has been much scientific argument about the ways such traits appear . |
| 26 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 27 | Those who have espoused the notion of retrieval failure have not usually been much concerned with specifying what it is that is learned during pre-exposure ; rather , their experiments have been designed to show that , whatever the source on interference may be , it acts at retrieval rather than on the formation of the CS-US association . |
| 28 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 29 | He would have been much surpris 'd to know my true Opinion on these matters , but I did not chuse to let him be so much familiar , I kept mum , and smiled and nodded as best I might , keeping my Thoughts to myself . |
| 30 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |