Example sentences of "much of it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a long tradition of by-employment , much of it non-agricultural in nature , in Japanese farming families , and the extension of this practice since 1945 — accentuated by the sharp decline of the previously all-important silkworm cultivation — has made part-time farming a dominant feature of the rural sector . |
| 2 | Here a late-19th century district of five or six storey apartments arranged along narrow gridiron streets was suffering from many of the environmental problems characteristic of inner-city areas — lack of greenery , unsafe junctions , chaotic parking conditions and fast traffic , much of it rat-running between neighbouring traffic generators such as the railway station to the south and the four-lane Rhein Allee to the north . |
| 3 | The American government owns one-third of the nation 's land , much of it rich in resources . |
| 4 | There , a combination of poor housing and education , high crime rates , much of it drug-related , large-scale immigration and associated racial tensions , an exodus of jobs and the more well-off to the suburbs , high youth unemployment and welfare dependency and the break-up of traditional family structures have served to create what some commentators in the United States have described as an ‘ urban underclass ’ . |
| 5 | About thirty papers on this work , much of it collaborative , appeared in the Biochemical Journal between 1920 and 1941 . |
| 6 | Mr Roger Lankester , the party 's pollution specialist , said : ‘ My biggest criticism is that each part of the bill appears to have a loophole or get-out clause which will render much of it unenforceable . ’ |
| 7 | Already stretched by their individual remits , they had to spend time , much of it unproductive , in preparing papers and attending meetings . |
| 8 | Substantial losses have occurred of semi-natural vegetation and wildlife habitats , notably moorland and rough grassland , much of it attributable to agricultural intensification ( especially cultivation and reseeding ) . |
| 9 | Not a classic illustration of the thesis of Aggleton and colleagues , who have been looking at the lifespans of cricketers and report a two-year gap in favour of right-handers , much of it ascribable to fewer deaths in accidents or in war . |
| 10 | seen so much of it that it , that somebody will see some of it but then , well maybe there , and he did n't really erm , you know , you get out of it quick . |
| 11 | Rosa Mentasti has brought together some wonderful glass , much of it new to this reviewer . |
| 12 | There is a great deal of information here , much of it new to us , and the book is a valuable addition to the reference collection of anyone interested either in this always-turbulent region or in special forces generally . |
| 13 | There are nearly a thousand references , spanning the literature from palaeontology to molecular biology , much of it recent , but with good coverage of the eighteen and nineteenth centuries ( 12 references for ! ) and , perhaps most valuable , a survey of the extensive but scattered literature of the twentieth century . |
| 14 | The adder ( vipera berus ) has suffered from the loss of its habitat , much of it sandy heathland , and from deliberate killing by people afraid of its poisonous reputation . |
| 15 | Our collections of still photographs take us back to the Crimean War , but for this century we have millions of feet of movie record , much of it unexplored . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 18 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 19 | He arrived back at his parents ' home in Bures St Mary near Sudbury , Suffolk , yesterday where his first task was to wash off the grime of Patagonia , much of it volcanic dust . |
| 20 | Now another transformation is under way at T&L — much of it Staley-inspired — and it is likely to prove even more dramatic than the last . |
| 21 | Side by side hung her coarse morning working outfits , made out of casement cloth , which she had had to buy herself , much of it second-hand to save money , and two afternoon ones — a white cotton shirtwaister , black skirt , lacy cap with streamers and lacy white pinafore . |
| 22 | Congratulations to Barkers for turning over the whole of the basement into one big showcase for some brilliant furnishing fashion — much of it British . |
| 23 | There are 576 panes of glass in this one window , much of it original ! |
| 24 | The first is the more sophisticated ‘ university research type ’ evidence , much of it psychological and sociological , involving not only what Tyler called ‘ studies of the learners ’ ( their social background , cognitive , perceptual and linguistic development , attitudes and aspirations , health and nutrition ) but similarly studies of the teachers who teach them and the communities which support the schools . |
| 25 | Semantics is the study of meaning , and as such derives much of it theoretical inspiration from disciplines such as philosophy , psychology and linguistics . |
| 26 | Figures are not produced for the lengths of old field boundaries removed or watercourses canalised but in 1983 , SAFER Auvergne spent 163,481FF on building new farms and buildings ; 470 , 165FF on irrigation , drainage and straightening water courses ; 1,859,119FF on roads , clearance for cultivation ( scrub etc ? ) and boundary construction , much of it attracting state subsidies . |
| 27 | The extreme poverty of the Cuban people was in stark contrast to the wealth of foreign investors in the country , and Castro began the redistribution of the land , much of it American-owned , to peasant families ( pp. 137 ) . |
| 28 | I here was hardly a corner of British industry in the Sixties which did not suffer strike action of one sort ; much of it lengthy , acrimonious and ultimately futile . |
| 29 | It 's quite good property much of it antique of high value . |
| 30 | There has always been criticism , much of it unjust , that lecturers in colleges and polytechnics fail to keep in touch with school-based initiatives and developments and that college programmes are all too often divorced from the real world of school . |