Example sentences of "much of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Much of the final selection is done by just one person .
2 Much of the normal scientist 's knowledge will be tacit , in the sense developed by Michael Polanyi .
3 Well er there was I did n't do so much of the normal grafting naturally , but I was always , if there was a new man came on the job they would always learns .
4 Much of the normal development of local authorities and statutory undertakers ( for example , road works , laying of underground mains and cables ) is ‘ permitted development ’ under the GDO .
5 Do you have a feel of how much of the total provision that you 're proposing in the structure plan will be development on green field sites as opposed to development existing urban areas ?
6 Instead , some multinationals have invested in knowledge systems that provide access to state-of-the-art breeding , disease control and cultivation techniques in a form that allows them to control much of the total chain without investing directly in all stages .
7 How much of the total amount that you have spent , was spent at the main counter ?
8 Though water is a solid for much of the polar year , and generally poor in minerals even when in liquid form , both snow and aquatic polar habitats support life .
9 Much of the Scots army remained nearby .
10 The forehead is usually divided by a central ridge or furrow as in much of the Negroid work .
11 As evidence for this , Marxists point out that much of the criminal law is about the protection of property .
12 The Bill aims to close gaps in existing law on fraud and allow courts in England and Wales to try cases of fraud and similar offences , where much of the criminal activity may have occurred in this country but where the final act happened overseas .
13 While this is clearly an unfair characterisation of much of the serious effort to achieve genuine permeation in many institutions , it is certainly true that permeated work need not have anyone in charge of it , need not demand any specialist expertise , and need not actually be visible to students at all .
14 In addition much of the associated housing has also been removed and replaced by dwellings which although sometimes materially better appointed are not always aesthetically or socially better .
15 Forsyth immediately became one of the great hopes of British cinema , and much of the well-earned praise for the eagerly awaited films that followed came edged with disappointment .
16 They were more likely to have been bell towers , although Neeld was very much of the feudal landlord ilk and everything was designed to give an impression of vast wealth and efficiency , ’ he says .
17 There is evidence that for much of the Labour government 's period in office between 1974 and 1979 , the older urban cores were to receive greater support than other areas of the country ( Jackman and Sellars , 1977 ) .
18 The bank already owns or occupies several building nearby , plus much of the adjacent site , which includes the NatWest tower .
19 Within a few years , that company suffered a serious , albeit temporary , setback when fire gutted much of the adjacent warehouse .
20 Much of the practical work , which occupies about thirty per cent of the study time , is concerned with program design and system development .
21 She taught much of the practical work in the natural sciences for the women students of Newnham and Girton Colleges for more than twenty years , and she was recognized as a stimulating teacher who demanded high-quality work .
22 Because the 1830s marked the translation of much of the rural population- and with it the problem of housing the poor-from the country into the cities , Dorothea 's second , more satisfactory marriage to Will Ladislaw seems symbolic : she turns her attention , one assumes , from rural to urban housing , as he does his from pictures to politics .
23 On legal aid there is not clear recognition amongst the major commercial firms of the need to deploy much of the substantial funding that they provide in large measure for the profession in the defence at once of the legal aid scheme and of legal aid practitioners .
24 Much of the substantial loss which Coleridge suffered was borne by the uncomplaining and insufficiently thanked Cottle , whose verdict on the Watchman was brief and to the point .
25 Much of the casual work women did at home was categorised as ‘ sweated ’ .
26 But much of the casual work done by women was probably never reported to census enumerators ; the number of wives recorded as lodging-house keepers or washerwomen , for example , was probably very inaccurate , largely because of the difficulty census enumerators experienced in classifying women 's domestic labour .
27 I propose that a local joint commissioning body for medical and social care should be established , which would eliminate much of the sterile debate about the boundary between the two .
28 He is entirely right about the British contribution to Europe , both in the long term and in the past few years when much of the present shape of the Community has arisen from initiatives by this country .
29 From this it will be gathered that Daisan Butai 's play is very much of the present day and the world we live in .
30 Much of the present structure dates from the 19th century , the mill taking its name from Brimscombe Port , built close at hand by the Thames and Severn Canal Co .
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