Example sentences of "a lot [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions , but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extra -ordinary , and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant . |
| 2 | It sounds a lot louder and a lot prettier . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's a lot higher than a lot of our competitors are achieving . ’ |
| 4 | If your filter is to be sited a lot higher than the pond , perhaps to feed an impressive waterfall , remember that you will need a more powerful pump to raise the water to the filter . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said . |
| 6 | Yeah , it 's the first time these actually keep a lot better than the towelling ones . |
| 7 | I think we 'll all be a lot better when the summer gets here |
| 8 | Not like a village it 's a parish it 's a lot bigger than a village |
| 9 | There was an odd-shaped room , not a lot bigger than the cab of the truck itself . |
| 10 | It should all be a lot clearer when the Chancellor speaks next Thursday . |
| 11 | As somebody who is still under thirty and er like my good friend Mister young enough to have a positive approach to Europe , I am pleasantly surprised that the people opposite are gon na make my job a lot easier because the narrowness and the anti-diluvian attitudes that we see on the benches opposite explain why , in the last Euro elections , the Labour Party won a resounding victory on the issue of Europe . |
| 12 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 13 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 14 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
| 15 | Community care requires a lot more than a syringe . |
| 16 | It is going to take a lot more than the plethora of locally-driven modest venture capital funds to effect any worthwhile change . |
| 17 | As the Republican Guard tightens its grip , the Iraqis stand to lose a lot more than the war |
| 18 | Should a victim die , they could find their good samaritan act has cost them a lot more than the penny which was paid to the Jericho-Jerusalem Motel . |
| 19 | We need complete control and this means a lot more than the farm assured schemes — although they are a start — and it is something we put a huge amount of work into . ’ |
| 20 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 21 | And we have branches , but we could have a lot more because the amount of branches we have , although we have a lot of branches of Scottish Old Age Pensions we are not old age pensioners are not united , they 're not united , the only way they can be united , if it 's a national organization , join your national organization and fight the government . |
| 22 | We can do one hell of a lot more if the whole of is combined in Europe and fighting it 's corner because as sure as hell that golden triangle in the South East is not gon na give us a slice of the action unless we take it , and for the members opposite to site their with their ancient out-dated ideas of Liberalism , right ? |
| 23 | The six-cylinder lay-out , of course , makes for smooth engine performance and that , combined with plenty of sound-proofing measures , means that the BMW diesel is a lot quieter and a lot more refined than any other diesel I 've driven — without exception . |
| 24 | That rudder movement equals braking and so it 's slowing you down , it may look impressive being heeled over like this but I 'd sail a lot faster if the boat were flat . |
| 25 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 26 | Alright , so a pound spent in agriculture , alright , is much less , is worth a lot less than a pound spent elsewhere , right , cos farmers are relatively inefficient . |
| 27 | The actual title of the course matters a lot less than the content , but a word of caution is necessary here to help you differentiate between programmes designed to prepare you for re-entry to the profession , and those which may be open to nurses currently practising , namely ‘ refresher courses ’ . |
| 28 | And there 's also some cases where er the plans have actually partially lapsed since last renewal and in which case it 's quoting the premium they 're paying now which is a lot less than the premium they were paying at renewal . |
| 29 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 30 | The argument that Sizewell will make electricity cheaper than it would otherwise be , is probably a lot weaker than the board claims . |