Example sentences of "much [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very much worth it d' ya know . |
| 2 | The fact that we now know so much about it proves that he was utterly wrong . |
| 3 | I do n't know why the people who argued so much about it did n't go and ask these three what had happened . |
| 4 | The latter dates from the eighteenth century but S. Michael was built in the eleventh century and much of it survives . |
| 5 | The county of Powys ( almost all LFA ) had 240,600 hectares of rough grazing in 1955 which by 1982 had fallen to 179,052 hectares , much of it improved agriculturally . |
| 6 | Even now , when it has in plate tectonics a unifying , fundamental theory , much of it remains an observational science , intuitive to the point of subjectivity . |
| 7 | Parts of it have been taken over for a secondary motor road , but much of it remains remote and quiet , rarely disturbed by a human voice . |
| 8 | Soft toys and medicine , much of it earmarked for specific children , was soiled by smoke , fire and water . |
| 9 | The next five years will be a battle — much of it fought in the Governor 's quarterly meeting with Lu Ping , head of Peking 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office . |
| 10 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 11 | This is partly because of the increasing importance of employment in the service sector , much of it geared to regional and local markets and client groups , but it also has much to do with the particular circumstances of the 1980s . |
| 12 | Much of it concerned her confidante and co-playwright , Lady Bell . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 15 | There is , for a start , so much of it to watch and talk about . |
| 16 | Much of it occurs as plantation forestry , the prime objective of which is to produce wood and wood products . |
| 17 | None the less , large sums of public money are still being spent on drainage , much of it to improve farmland . |
| 18 | However , the literature so far described is concerned almost entirely with social work at the micro level : individuals , families and small groups , much of it using techniques that are of little relevance to community work , for example behaviour modification . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | January was a month of intense political and diplomatic activity in Hong Kong , much of it related to constitutional developments ahead of the territory 's restoration to China in 1997 . |
| 21 | As a boy , much of the Bible puzzled and disturbed me , it was read daily in chapel and much of it seemed astonishingly unchristian . |
| 22 | But they , and many other organisations throughout society , also have the benefit of strongly supportive national policies and of state guaranteed funds on a scale that is not entirely incommensurate with the task of changing health determining habits : for a population the size of England 's , the total yearly Victorian Health Promotion Foundation 's budget is equivalent to around £140 million , and much of it goes to the voluntary sector . |
| 23 | The report contains comments from policymakers in borrowing countries , much of it criticizing Bank officials for ignoring local input while implementing policies decided at Bank headquarters . |
| 24 | As we have seen , the language of this welfare revolution is American , much of it popularized by writers like Charles Murray ( 1984 ) . |
| 25 | This growth has accelerated in recent years , much of it taking place in the 1970s and it has been concentrated more in the higher levels of the education system . |
| 26 | much of it taking a shortcut to the city centre ( 'rat-running' ) . |
| 27 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 28 | Much of it had been enclosed , and pasture-farming was the predominant mode of agriculture . |
| 29 | Much of it had disappeared during the redevelopment programmes after 1945 . |
| 30 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |