Example sentences of "much of [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American owned UPS is the world 's biggest despatch company and makes much of its clean-cut image . |
| 2 | The Colosseum was huge and wonderful to behold , even though much of its decorative sculpture had been stolen over the centuries for the building of many of Rome 's palaces . |
| 3 | Business and political leaders praised his liberalism and his pragmatism , the assurance with which he presided over China 's opening to the West and the dexterity with which he dumped much of its communist ideology . |
| 4 | It retains much of its old-world charms but a newer half of town offers all modern amenities . |
| 5 | It has dropped much of its collective thinking , which did such damage in the post-war years ; but it still lacks fundamental confidence in the entrepreneur . |
| 6 | Much of its picturesque quaintness had gone , but it still had a deep attraction for him . |
| 7 | After the elections the MPRP lost much of its remaining influence . |
| 8 | A report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) warns that 245 million acres — 10 per cent of the earth 's farmland — will lose much of its agricultural value over the next 20 years as a result of over-grazing , deforestation and poor land management . |
| 9 | Labour has made much of its front bench team collectively , but individually there is no one — Mr Smith included — who can provide an easy solution to their problems . |
| 10 | Tourism has developed with considerable speed into one of the major industries of the modern world , and much of its current shape and nature is the result of British innovation during the past 150 years . |
| 11 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 12 | Nor is it simply a question of the structural differences between British industry and much of its Continental counterpart . |
| 13 | Indeed , had it not been constructed when it was , Peter Scott 's Wildfowl Trust situated further up river at Slimbridge would probably have lost much of its new grounds to erosion by now . |
| 14 | It was clear that OPEC would be unable to spend much of its new revenues and would lend massively on international financial markets . |
| 15 | True , there is a stream Kingsdale Beck , draining the slopes of Whernside at the head of the valley and accompanying the road down but for much of its early journey it prefers to travel under rather than on its limestone bed and remains out of sight and hearing . |
| 16 | Robertson begins by taking us through this golden age , dedicating the story to Joe Pawsey , to whose wise and expert leadership the Radiophysics Laboratory owed much of its early success . |
| 17 | Much of its early growth came from jute replacement in carpet backing and from the replacement of wood in the materials handling and furniture sectors . |
| 18 | It is so because of the function of much of its economic activity within the economy as a whole . |
| 19 | However , the frog does not picture the flying insect as we would , because much of its visual information never even reaches its brain . |
| 20 | Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that his approach to the Eighth Symphony has broadened and mellowed over the years , losing in the process much of its Russian accent and instead seeking out more refined , more purely musical nuances . |
| 21 | The central bank conducts much of its ordinary currency intervention through the Spanish Association of Savings Banks ( CECA ) . |
| 22 | The Thien Tuong wooded area was denuded , and much of its once-rich fauna became virtually extinct . |
| 23 | Though the right wing had lost much of its political leverage in the Cortes , their opposition found voice in growing street violence and eventually a military uprising which was to start the civil war . |
| 24 | The nature of this challenge emerges , for example , when Mabel Day warns against any " cynical treatment " which would deprive the literary work of " much of its moral appeal " . |
| 25 | The chemical properties of flint at first seem very unpromising since so much of its chemical make-up is a silicon-oxygen network , and is the same in flint found anywhere . |
| 26 | This is one mill which , with the cooperation of local government and the company , has managed to retain much of its historic character and still manage to modernise and remain competitive . |
| 27 | Stripped to its essence , this model takes on a mechanical quality which surely robs the process of much of its evocative appeal . |
| 28 | Fulcrum leases much of its hi-tech computer testing equipment and computer-aided design systems . |
| 29 | The challenge of the electronic media informs much of its Strategic objectives for the year 2000 ( May 1993 ) . |
| 30 | The school is situated in the Garden District of Santa Cruz ( pop 195,000 ) , a city of contrasts which retains much of its colonial charm and is only a short drive away from the nightlife of the resort of Puerto de la Cruz . |