Example sentences of "much [prep] what [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sanitation has improved since the merchant 's time , but it 's somewhere to treasure as much for what has n't happened to it as for what has . |
| 2 | Few people in Polruan knew much about what went on behind the big iron gates that guarded the entrance to Roscarrock Hall , because Sir Gregory had taken the prudent step of making his household almost self-sufficient , and traders were seldom required to call . |
| 3 | He could n't even ask too much about what had happened . |
| 4 | THIS is such a delicious offering , of the kind that makes you chuckle in recollection on the way home , that I do not really want to give the game away by saying too much about what goes on . |
| 5 | They are also thinking too much about what counts and when you do that you are up the creek , and at the moment Gloucester have not got a paddle |
| 6 | You see he does n't know much about what happened before he met me . |
| 7 | Interestingly , though , according to Lindsey much of what sounds acoustic on the record is n't actually acoustic ; it 's electric guitar recorded direct , and in mono . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I did not know much of what had gone on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Much of what had been in the public sector of the old bourgeois state would be destroyed , while what had been in private hands would be taken over . |
| 12 | There are also variations in the temporal and spatial patterns of deforestation in the Indian Himalaya ; in Uttar Pradesh , for example , Tejwani ( 1987a ) reports that forest losses have been extensive and that much of what remains is degraded . |
| 13 | Much of what happens to you professionally , or with regard to your major aims , is subject to the actions of others . |
| 14 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 15 | No one could ignore the Rio Summit even if much of what came out of it did not have an immediate effect on business . |
| 16 | He explains much of what went before . |
| 17 | Much of what went on seems unremarkable in terms of modern beliefs and practices — either in the fringe cults and the established Churches or in modern psychotherapy . |
| 18 | The system of financial ownership does not generate as much risk in the first place , while the state handles much of what does occur . |
| 19 | Or it could be the beginning of justice and the end of administering the law , because , how much of what goes on in court is actually administering the law , rather than determining natural justice . |
| 20 | For Moore the ‘ science ’ of ethics is concerned with the property or quality good — with what it is , with what possesses it , and with how to produce as much of what possesses it as possible . |
| 21 | In a rapidly shrinking world where Third World countries are striving to acquire the trappings of Western materialism , much of what caused these diverse cultures to be unique and exciting is being cast aside . |
| 22 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 23 | Much of what passes for creativity is flashy or fashionable , or relies on advertising industry in-jokes . |
| 24 | He finished up as Programme controller and deputy managing director of ATV , laying the foundations for much of what became Central Television . |
| 25 | But in Britain at least , as more investigators study ethnic minority communities , it will become clear that much of what constitutes good ethical practice is highly culture-dependent . |
| 26 | These fortifications deserve a word : much of what survives is of fourth-century date , for a good reason : in the fifth century Athens had her fleet , and that was the chief instrument of her classical imperialism . |
| 27 | Such questions are not only perennially interesting ; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as human knowledge . |
| 28 | None of them , of course , anticipated the scale of the problems which were caused by the slump and collapse of much of what remained of inner urban manufacturing industry in the early 1980s . |
| 29 | For much of what has been written about her does not elucidate ; rather , it creates a barrier between us and the historical ruler of mid sixteenth-century Scotland . |
| 30 | Much of what has been discussed in this section applies as much to children as it does to teaching staff . |