Example sentences of "lot of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | There is a lot of nonsense talked about this . |
2 | According to Rory Powe , fund manager for Invesco ( 071–626 3434 ) , France has a lot of plus points despite economic difficulties throughout Europe . |
3 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
4 | The others had paid a lot of money to go on this guided trip . |
5 | The comical thing is one of the comical things is there 's quite a lot of money go into some of those corporation houses you know ? |
6 | Families cost a lot of money , and John Shakespeare was having a lot of money troubles in those days . |
7 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
8 | ‘ It could be another two years before the election , ’ Dennis Skinner reflected between stultifyingly cordial debates , ‘ and if it is , there is going to be a lot of water flowing under political bridges . |
9 | People er I mean th they could n't help a lot because they 'd got nothing themselves a lot of them but there was a lot of help done without any fuss or bother , I mean er er a bloke 'd say er , have you got a fag ? |
10 | Mm , there was quite a lot of publicity given to that was n't there ? |
11 | A lot of psychology came into this game , trying to read the minds of the people who had invented and planted a device . |
12 | It is in fact one and three quarter miles long , which is a lot of tunnel to maintain for any permanent way gang , whom I do n't imagine relish the thought of working in the dark , damp , gloomy bore . |
13 | I 've got a lot of preparation to do before first period . ’ |
14 | Justin Simpson , in his Historical Sketches in the Stamford Mercury written in the late nineteenth century , reflects that ‘ such a satisfactory and speedy termination to a law suit rarely falls to the lot of man to witness in these degenerate days ’ . |
15 | There 's a lot of work involved in that . |
16 | There 's a lot of work to do on that case — can I have Susy Harvey to assist ? ’ |
17 | It 's quite a lot of work to do on this cataloguing . |
18 | There 's , there 's a lot of work gone into those . |
19 | It makes a lot of sense to meet with these other Christians so that you can all know and encourage one another . |
20 | He made a lot of sense talking about that tip and obviously persuaded people to change their viewpoint . ’ |
21 | In all large companies there is a lot of comfort derived from administrative systems that purport to be ‘ fair ’ but in reality remove from individual managers the responsibility of trying to reward and administer people 's careers while allowing for differences which are immeasurable in quantitative terms . |
22 | Dissimilar horses , like a Shetland and a Thoroughbred , may have a lot of trouble relating to each other , and maybe never will . |
23 | Geese spend a lot of time flying to other places . |
24 | Radius has grown as a company by acquiring firms in specific vertical markets , and Bland said , spends a lot of time looking for suitable purchases . |
25 | I regularly take such groups of boys walking , and sometimes spend a lot of time apologising to other walkers . |
26 | Ahmed : I must say that I did n't think much of the group when it was first set up because f felt that it wasted a lot of time whinging about all the things that were ‘ being handed to the Black workers on a plate because anti-racism was currently fashionable ’ . |
27 | And we have a lot of time to think about this and discuss it . |
28 | Very well done and he spent a lot of time working on that did you notice ? |
29 | ‘ We spend a lot of time working on each record , ’ said Iain . |
30 | We spent a lot of time talking about general skill and abi , everybody will still comment on general skills |