Example sentences of "much of it [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include Azabu Group , which plans to sell 60 properties worth around ¥200 billion by the end of June ; Itoman , a trading company which hopes to sell and lease back its Osaka headquarters for ¥80 billion as a first step towards paying off its debt of ¥1.3 trillion , much of it owed to Sumitomo Bank ; and MDI , which wants to unload ¥50 billion out of ¥150 billion worth of residential property that it holds for development . |
| 2 | In this perspective also President Reagan 's ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ was more than a Star Wars nuclear strategy ; SDI was also seen as yet another way of pumping more billions of government dollars into advanced research , much of it related to information technology . |
| 3 | As we have seen , the language of this welfare revolution is American , much of it popularized by writers like Charles Murray ( 1984 ) . |
| 4 | More recently , there has been widespread imitation of styles of literary-theoretical writing , much of it read in translation from French ( so occasionally incorporating features of French discourse which have survived translation ) . |
| 5 | Nevertheless in London the abortive strike was accompanied by great bitterness , much of it directed at Wilson who had been bold enough to speak the unpalatable truth in difficult circumstances . |
| 6 | Yet there is good iconographic evidence that much of it came from Mesopotamia by way of Syria . |
| 7 | He had a small but good library , much of it kept on shelves on the first landing . |
| 8 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 9 | Disco history is a fragmented book , much of it lost to Aids or fatal drug habits , but also to snobbery , ignorance and a tenacious belief among critics , musicians and music historians that disco was , and is , ephemeral , superficial , trivial . |
| 10 | They were facing a mounting legal bill , whereas Cassidy had behind him the huge resources of the diocese — much of it contributed by gays and lesbians , Moreover , the Chancellor 's opinion was clear . |
| 11 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 12 | At a time when water formed the only practicable means of bulk transportation , the cultivation of grain was profitable in Norfolk and Sussex , where the arable districts were next to the coast , wheat and malt being the chief commodities clearing the ports there , much of it bound for London , though some went farther afield , including victuals for armies operating against Scotland . |