Example sentences of "much have been made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much has been made of the fact that two fifteenth-century kings , James I and James III , came spectacularly to grief . |
| 2 | Understandably , much has been made of Henry VIII 's offer of a pension of £1000 to the pro-English and Protestant earl of Glencairn in 1544 and of the money to be sent from France for Mary to distribute to Arran , Beaton and others in 1545 . |
| 3 | Much has been made of the beneficence of French rule in Lebanon ; the economy was revitalised , Beirut harbour enlarged , and a network of major roads built to link the country 's principal cities . |
| 4 | Much has been made of the fact that San Francisco emerged relatively unscathed from Loma Prieta . |
| 5 | Much has been made of the possibilities of converting barns for light industrial use . |
| 6 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 7 | Although much has been made of the fact that Australian fast bowler Craig McDermott did n't become the first overseas player to represent the county , Indian batsman Sachin Tedulkar confirms a long term policy : overseas players are now welcome in Yorkshire cricket . |
| 8 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 9 | It is , I think , not untrue to say that too much has been made of an explanation of salvation couched primarily in terms of the law courts — crime and punishment — in which God the lawgiver demands and receives satisfaction . |
| 10 | Too much has been made of this by Western critics . |
| 11 | Much has been made of the need to question the impact of elderly medical care but it is clear that , unlike other areas of counselling , it is the counsellor who has to do this rather than the counsellee . |
| 12 | ‘ There is pressure on me , but too much has been made of that . |
| 13 | Much has been made of the ‘ feminine shape ’ of My Bloody Valentine 's music , and this also extends to the ‘ wombadelia ’ of Spiritualized and the neutered fumblings of the shoe-gazers and much of the second division of indie rock . |
| 14 | Much has been made of the tiger 's appetite for human flesh . |
| 15 | Much has been made of the threat that Microsoft and NT might pose to Unix . |
| 16 | For example , after the History of Sexuality much has been made of Foucault 's analysis of power as a form of totalizing paranoia ; but the analyses in that book , of , for example , the shift from the Catholic confession box to the confessional psychoanalytic couch , are both culturally and historically specific , and Foucault 's remarks about them need to be put in the same perspective . |
| 17 | Much has been made by Ainslie of the improving art auction market , the 83% sold at the Impressionist and Contemporary February art sales and the June sale of the $3.19 million Fabergé Imperial ‘ Love trophy egg ’ commissioned by Czar Nicholas II in 1905 on the birth of his son Alexei . |
| 18 | Much has been made by the SEC of a footnote in the Dirks case . |
| 19 | Much has been made of the traumatic aspect of being born , yet infants of all species have been born since bearing began and it would be surprising if natural processes did not allow for the experience . |
| 20 | Much has been made of the disciplinary power of the market for managerial services . |
| 21 | Much has been made of the importance of the 1919 and 1932 Acts in establishing a nationwide system of supervision over building development , based on local authority scheme preparation and the twin sanctions of by-law and planning control . |
| 22 | Question : I want to work out the total on a set of numeric fields in my Paradox data table , so that I can see how much has been made by my sales staff . |
| 23 | Much has been made of the contracts coming up for renewal with the main power generators in the United Kingdom — National Power and PowerGen . |
| 24 | The dispute , of which much has been made , I regret to say , by some ill-informed members of the Labour party , was about recognition , not trade union membership . |