Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] a much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staffing was included , though a ratio of 50:50 between expenditure on salaries and materials , thought to be reasonable at that time , has since been distorted by a much greater proportion of expenditure going to staffing . |
| 2 | The phrase ‘ community participation ’ has been used for a much longer time . |
| 3 | In addition , however , funding has recently been approved for a much more ambitious scheme — the Earth Observing System ( EOS ) . |
| 4 | The traditional post-war argument between different kinds of interventionism has been replaced by a much broader debate . |
| 5 | The big supermarkets , or what seemed big supermarkets then , which disfigured numerous high streets in the 1960s , have now been replaced by a much larger generation of stores . |
| 6 | The older organic links between the council , the Labour Party and the trade unions have been replaced by a much wider constituency and coalition . |
| 7 | Like Alciston and most other Sussex parishes it seems to have had a fairly prosperous time until the mid-fourteenth century ; the early over-large tax demands of the Norman overlords had been replaced by a much more balanced local appreciation of the revenue possibilities . |
| 8 | Urban population figures have been rising at a much greater rate than rural . |
| 9 | After exclusion of patients with known causes of their ulcer disease , H pylori infection has been detected with a much higher frequency of 96% in subgroups with idiopathic gastric ulcers , which is equivalent to the H pylori prevalence in duodenal ulcer disease . |
| 10 | The executive checked the documents , and noted that the order should have been executed at a much lower price . |
| 11 | Even though the link between investment and growth is in some ways tenuous , it is interesting that the increased level of fixed investment in the UK in the 1980s has been accompanied by a much stronger growth performance . |
| 12 | There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel . |
| 13 | That is exactly what has happened with that company because the costs of the base operations have been spread over a much wider network . |
| 14 | Consolidation and centralisation have been effected to a much greater degree than here , and so a reaction to their effects may be expected to be stronger . |
| 15 | Surely , if you really had not news to report , the space could have been deployed in a much more productive manner — maybe to help some worthy cause or charity . |
| 16 | However , in England the principle has been inflated into a much more extreme dogma which we may call the ‘ extravagant version ’ of the doctrine . |