Example sentences of "much of [pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leaves around 1400km of post-collision convergence to be accounted for , much of which might be explained by a doubling of the thickness of the Tibetan crust during the past 50 Ma from a ‘ normal ’ value of 35 km to the present 70 km . |
| 2 | The largest allocation was $3,760 million to the Finance Ministry , much of which would be used to service internal and external government debts ( the total foreign debt stood at $31,800 million ) ; the Education Ministry received $2,500 million ; and the Interior Ministry $2,300 million ( including spending on the police and security , and on revenue sharing with state governments ) . |
| 3 | Plans exist to log 250,000 hectares of virgin rainforest and replace it with a palm oil plantation , much of which will be worked by migrant labour from Indonesia 's main islands . |
| 4 | This short review of the changing styles of sociological research has inevitably left out a great deal , much of which will be discussed elsewhere in this book . |
| 5 | This may buy some short-term security , but at the cost of limiting how much of themselves can be revealed and used in relationships with others . |
| 6 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 7 | To identify and measure the trade-offs that exist between economic objectives so that the policy-maker is made aware of how much of one must be given up to get more of another , e.g. 2 per cent more inflation or 0.5 per cent less unemployment . |
| 8 | Part of the original great tower or donjon survives , but much of what can be seen today dates from the 14th and 15th centuries : massive curtain walls , defended on the south and east by four flanking towers ; within , a large rectangular courtyard enclosure , terminated at its west end by the mighty circular donjon surrounded by its own moat and , on the east side , a great hall and chapel . |
| 9 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |
| 10 | Besides which it 's a heck of a time for Noorda to be discussing succession — when so much of what can be accomplished with Unix seems to depend on his personal touch . |
| 11 | The historical sources tend to be accepted unless there is evidence to the contrary , by which process much of what can be read about Anglo-Saxon England is based on uncorroborated historical evidence written down hundreds of years after the events they describe . |
| 12 | In an analysis of verbal learning , Gibson ( 1940 ) argued that much of what must be learned in a paired associate task involves establishing discrimination among the items . |
| 13 | I am sure , with the Commission 's assistance , that much of it can be removed to create a landscape feature against the West Mains wire fence which bounds the northern side of 194 . |
| 14 | Much of it can be attributed to his astute realization that it was possible to break with the disastrous tradition of Pius IX without compromising on essentials . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrats would make education up to 18 compulsory although much of it could be done in the workplace rather than just in schools and colleges . |
| 16 | In letters to charities she is warning them about the extra administration time that trustees will spend making tax claims and notifying changes of registered particulars , and advising them that much of it could be saved by selling existing investments and contributing the proceeds of sale to a common investment fund . |
| 17 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 18 | I am sure much of it could be billed and relocated this winter to begin to create a new landscaped edge to the extension . |
| 19 | Michael Clark , first secretary at the Canadian High Commission in London , admits to being " horrified " by some of the logging practices he has seen and says that the dispute between his government and the campaigners is not about the importance of conserving ancient forest but about how much of it should be conserved . |