Example sentences of "much of the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This area was typical of much of the West of Scotland with small farms and crofts , poor soil , difficult climate , and isolation from markets . |
| 2 | The argument is that he had power to enjoy so much of the income of Attleborough [ the overseas company ] as was spent in expenses , etc , so that by this route one arrives at a taxable amount of net income . |
| 3 | Much of the income of rectories and vicarages consisted of tithes . |
| 4 | However , much of the enjoyment of success comes from carrying out the preparatory work yourself . |
| 5 | There is much of the poetry of Shelley and of Spenser , for example , written since they knew a woman , which has no mention of woman , and yet is full of love and fit to awaken and to satisfy love … . |
| 6 | Much of the difficulty of identification is caused by an almost complete ignorance of what we are looking for . |
| 7 | The Government have met much of the anxiety of Opposition Members through the provision for a possible further education funding council to be established at a later date . |
| 8 | Irish agriculture minister Joe Walsh said European farmers would bear too much of the cost of reform if the current agreement on subsidy cuts went through . |
| 9 | It is clear that London is out of kilter with much of the rest of England , if not the whole of it . |
| 10 | By a stroke of good fortune Ninian was earning at its maximum rate when much of the rest of ICI was suffering severe competitive pressures from exchange rate movements . |
| 11 | BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s . |
| 12 | ‘ The economy in the U.S. is gradually recovering but economic prospects in the UK and much of the rest of Europe are less encouraging . ’ |
| 13 | LAST October we invited readers to take part in testing an idea which , if established , would require re-assessment of large areas of biology and re-adjustment of much of the rest of science . |
| 14 | Little by little , the French initiative paid off , as their armies ‘ reoccupied ’ first those parts ceded by treaty and then much of the duchy of Aquitaine itself . |
| 15 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 16 | and there 's so much of the kind of change in the last few chapters leading up to this which suddenly got Jesus being spat at Saint Mark is telling us that Jesus has now been condemned . |
| 17 | But whereas Rose Bruford 's system of training is rigidly linked with conventional mime , Brian Way offers a much more flexible approach that anticipates much of the kind of sensitivity work of the encounter-group movement in the late 1960s . |
| 18 | As we become older , we often try to appear more sophisticated and , in doing so , we lose much of the sense of wonder and excitement we felt when we were younger . |
| 19 | ‘ Though we have seen much of the liberality of Nevada practice , ’ he told them , ‘ we assume that even in that forward-looking jurisdiction , parties to a case of divorce may not litigate by day and copulate by night . ’ |
| 20 | However , realizable assets are now much less important in any estimation of the wealth distribution in Britain , because so much of the wealth of individuals is held in the form of pension rights , wealth which is not immediately realizable , but which is contingent on survival beyond pensionable age . |
| 21 | Much of the performance of Windows on any PC is down to the compatibility of the hardware with the operating system , and Windows itself . |
| 22 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |
| 23 | Just as much of the discussion of youth had excluded female youth , they were also almost entirely about white male youth . |
| 24 | The researchers were already aware that choice of subject matter determined much of the degree of interest shown in any programme . |
| 25 | Few rural areas are beyond the ambit of a town or city and much of the increase of population in many parts of rural Britain reflects the underbounding of urban administrations . |
| 26 | Philosophical reflexivity is not high on the agenda and in an organization which makes much of the concept of loyalty but really means subservience , the insider can find it hard to bite the hand that feeds and reveal any unhealthy aspect in the agenda . |
| 27 | In fact , this augmented fourth chord is very frequently found as a predominant chord-shape in much of the music of composers such as Webern . |
| 28 | Occasionally , he would take the place of one of the men , and he also did much of the ploughing of Handley Farm 's own lands . |
| 29 | Much of the substance of Wilberforce s supposition as to the effects of aroused opinion in the country on the legislature had finally come to pass a half-century later . |
| 30 | CPRW members will be saddened by many references to the destruction of much of the centre of Abergavenny between 1950 and 1980 despite the efforts of the Civic Society and others . |