Example sentences of "much of it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May 1945 Yugoslav partisans had been spreading through Allied-occupied Austria , trying to annexe much of it to their own country . |
| 2 | The country exports between 75% and 85% of its output , much of it to Europe , and transport costs are a much larger element than for most of its competitors . |
| 3 | But the Mirror has read a transcript of the 2year-old recording and found much of it to be inconsequential gossip . |
| 4 | This could be explored between now and 1996 , as the British Library 's move from the museum makes available about 40% more exhibition space — much of it to be devoted , as it happens , to one theme : life in the Americas . |
| 5 | Edward promised further help , and a force of almost 5,000 men under the Earl of Salisbury was mustered in March 1373 ; but du Guesclin invaded the duchy and subjected much of it to a French military occupation . |
| 6 | of crime relates to property , much of it to burglary and breaking into people 's homes . |
| 7 | Mrs K. Battye 's local history class have mapped the information recorded in the 1881 census returns and have related much of it to existing buildings . |
| 8 | Evidence has emerged that mahogany which has been logged illegally in Brazilian Indian reserves is being exported to Western countries , much of it to the UK , which accounts for 52 per cent of Brazilian mahogany . |
| 9 | One pointer was the way that a growing percentage of the work-force was employed in the various activities of tourism , much of it of necessity on a shortterm or seasonal basis . |
| 10 | Multiple layers of screening , much of it of dubious scientific validity , may become a routine feature of working life unless restraints are imposed by law , as some states have begun to do . |
| 11 | The National Trust owns a considerable land area , much of it of importance for nature conservation . |
| 12 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 13 | By the end of 1908 Picasso owned at least five tribal objects and he went on to amass a large collection , much of it of very doubtful quality , although after the war when his own work was commanding large prices he occasionally exchanged a painting for a choice piece . |
| 14 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 15 | But professionally , you can do much of it with your programme . |
| 16 | Harris , even after reforming , remained nostalgic about the good old days of drinking , much of it with his soul-mate from RADA , O'Toole , who was also his countryman ( both were born in 1932 in Eire — O'Toole in Kerry and Harris in Limerick ) . |
| 17 | For example I often paint an area with retouching varnish mixed with pigment as a glaze , then I absorb much of it with newspaper dabbed onto the canvas . |
| 18 | Much of it with plants rarely seen in modern flower beds . |
| 19 | There has been a great deal of change in European Securities Exchanges , much of it on the lines of London 's Big Bang ( abolition of fixed commissions in Paris , for example ) , and much of it with a view to maintaining or gaining business . |
| 20 | Snowing patiently , for there was much of it on the ground , many snowdrops to be restored like white souls to the heavens . |
| 21 | The British government has delayed indefinitely the preparation of a register of contaminated land , much of it on inner-city sites with a history of industrial use , because of the effect it would have on land values . |
| 22 | There has been a great deal of change in European Securities Exchanges , much of it on the lines of London 's Big Bang ( abolition of fixed commissions in Paris , for example ) , and much of it with a view to maintaining or gaining business . |
| 23 | Together with the credits provided by export credit agencies , much of it for military hardware , this policy has culminated in the late 1980s in the accumulation of a mountain of debt which can not be serviced on the original schedule of payments . |
| 24 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 25 | So we did n't think much of it as a name at first but while Malcolm was away in the States , we somehow came round to it and decided to go with it . |
| 26 | It had taken a bad beating from the RAF and been widely rebuilt , much of it as copies of the original high-pitched medieval buildings . |
| 27 | In Madeira , as in Portugal , poetry is very much alive and popular and there are a number of modern poets who publish occasional volumes of poetry , much of it about Madeira . |
| 28 | I do n't think much of it at all . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't think much of it at first , but then something started to waft around the corridors , ’ shudders Bea . |
| 30 | If he were to put lotion on my hair , however nice it smelled , the bees would n't think much of it at all . |