Example sentences of "lot [prep] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But you also show great restraint over a lot of the stuff that 's written about you in the press , a lot of which is ill-informed gossip . |
2 | internal business shuttles but a lot of them are long haul passengers who could n't get a direct flight to their nearest regional airport and with the nineteen ninety three directive liberalising the E C erm or European Union Airways , more and more passengers from the North and the Midlands are going to take a shuttle to Europe not to Heathrow , they are going to fly from Ringway or East Middlesbrough t to Europe and catch a long haul from Charles De Gaulle or Frankfurt and indeed Amsterdam which you probably know is now advertising itself as Britain 's third airport . |
3 | And erm a lot of them are retired business men , or , or people still , people in business who give their time freely to it . |
4 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
5 | cos a lot of it 's bloody play by ear you know the contract 's |
6 | And er , one has to admit , when you look at the literature of like , you know Gandhi , and and this kind of thing , and a lot of it 's psycho-history stuff . |
7 | A lot of it 's hard work . |
8 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |