Example sentences of "much [prep] [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is in shock and in pain and requires an immediate transfusion of love and an injection of strength in the form of your quiet sympathy and understanding , and practical help with all the arrangements she has to make , as well as assistance with the simple routines of daily living ; for even these may be too much for her to cope with alone while she is engaged in the important and necessary task of grieving . |
| 2 | There 's not much for them to do at all . |
| 3 | A wealth of legends and folk tales has been recorded , much of which relates to particular sites in the countryside . |
| 4 | MTV and the advent of satellite — so much of which relies on cheap pop programming — also signals for many countries the Americanization of youth culture , and one way to indicate national resistance is to originate your own music television — which they all do these days . |
| 5 | The findings showed that nine out of 10 people were concerned about pollution caused by carbon dioxide and sulpher dioxide emissions , much of which comes from burning coal and oil . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Such questions are not only perennially interesting ; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as human knowledge . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Despite the lack of studies , much of what follows in this book derives from the application of theories of play to the study of reading . |
| 11 | Soft toys and medicine , much of it earmarked for specific children , was soiled by smoke , fire and water . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One of the tsar-reformer 's great achievements was the foundation of the Russian navy , much of it consisting of wooden galleys propelled by the collective muscle-power of conscript or convict oarsmen . |
| 15 | Depends on advanced technology , much of it developed during that lucky little war against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf . |
| 16 | The amplified muezzins of the town 's mosques spent much of it chanting at full volume . |
| 17 | Over the ensuing twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased , while the considerable physical presence of an industrial proletariat , much of it working in large plants , became increasingly apparent . |
| 18 | They were being overcharged for third-rate beer , much of it brewed from cheap and inferior ingredients . |
| 19 | Fortunately today recordings of period music are now widely available , much of it performed on authentic period instruments . |
| 20 | The relevance of this debate for present purposes is that much of it focuses on two competing ways of characterising rights which in turn have competing implications for a political movement such as the peace movement wishing to formulate its claims in the language of rights . |