Example sentences of "been so [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 World Bank officials have no pat answers for why there has been so little trickle-down in Thailand .
2 Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad .
3 Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date .
4 To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there !
5 Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design .
6 ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote .
7 This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media .
8 Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health .
9 Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark .
10 Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon .
11 THERE has not been so much breast-beating in the cinema since Bernadette .
12 To explore why there has been so much flux in the structures of competition , some basic distinctions are needed .
13 Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water .
14 There had been so much power in the electricity of that lightning .
15 Not since Harold Wilson prattled on about the white heat of the technological revolution — or some similar meaningless platitude — and launched Concorde , has there been so much talk about innovation and our intellectual heritage .
16 There has been so much talk of saturated and unsaturated fats that most people have heard of them .
17 There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’
18 There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’
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