Example sentences of "much of [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 There was lots of very French glitz and glamour and an apparently unlimited budget , much of which had been spent on giant television screens and clever use of lights ; but it was all quite impractical and unco-ordinated .
2 The cataclysm destroyed much of what had been built up during the long reign of Bel-Shanaar and left the Elves temporarily too weak to pursue their dark kinsfolk .
3 Despite the immediate success of the new fleet of 125mph trains which brought new standards of safety and on-board comfort firstly on the Western Region services out of London ( Paddington ) and then on the East Coast main line from London ( King 's Cross ) , so much of what had been gained in the late 1970s was lost as the economic recession started to bite .
4 One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 .
5 This led to doubt as to the effectiveness of the decree , which also ordered the colony 's property to be handed over to a Methodist church , even though much of it had been sold to individual members of the colony , who were not themselves to be subject to specific government action .
6 Much of it had been enclosed , and pasture-farming was the predominant mode of agriculture .
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