Example sentences of "much [prep] [Wh det] [vb mod] [be] " 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 | Normally the financial goal was to reduce the existing debt , much of which would be due to building . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Illuminative evaluation is a long process involving the collection of a large amount of data and opinions , much of which will be conflicting and difficult to synthesize . |
| 5 | The show will feature guitars , basses and amplifiers as well as the latest in sound processing and studio technology — much of which will be available for you to fiddle with to your heart 's content — and continuous live demos will be taking place on stage throughout the full two days . |
| 6 | Dave has spent some 20 years researching this fascinating subject and of the 1,000 or so entries there is a wealth of detail — much of which will be brand new to the reader and possibly just down the road ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | this prompted me to speculate not so much on what might be deployed in order to ask different questions from those addressed in the previous galleries . |