Example sentences of "lot of [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were sirens along the road below and a lot of excitement around the stationary train . |
| 2 | In a larger building , like that in which I work , I would have to store a lot of instructions of the above kind in order to find my way about . |
| 3 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 4 | We also plug West Cumbria and this is helping to bring in a lot of tourism to the whole region . ’ |
| 5 | Gary Player did a lot of sponsorship on the black side because we felt we had to help . |
| 6 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 7 | The practical result would be substantially reduced maximum output current , and a lot of ripple on the d.c. output . |
| 8 | But even I used to get a lot of hassle with the Black girls who 'd go , ‘ Ooh , you white man lover , you pagan ! ’ and all these kinds of things , and I 'd go , ‘ Yes , I know that , I love it . ’ |
| 9 | There 's a lot of conservatism in the vocal world here , and they sometimes come to performances to compare if it 's louder or softer ; I like big voices and I 'm trying to collect every rich voice I can , does n't matter if it 's in Novosibirsk where we heard Gorchakova , but what I 'm saying is that it has to be a complex , not just a voice and something else , or not just actor and a bit of voice . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap . |
| 11 | ‘ You have a lot of clothes in the next room . |
| 12 | Well I would say that there has been a lot of changes since the new Home Office guide lines were issued in nineteen eighty five |
| 13 | But he believes that there are developments around the corner that could bring a lot of changes for the better , not least of them , technological changes . |
| 14 | Erm certainly a lot of meetings in the early days , focused on the level of policing in the flats . |
| 15 | There was not a lot of laughter in the second act , but it is true there was not a lot in Chaplin 's later life . |
| 16 | ‘ I feel that it 's my job to do what a lot of film-makers in the 80s did , which is to tell you , ‘ do n't worry , be happy . ’ |
| 17 | Once again the LARGE PRINT option is a feature which has already brought a lot of knitters into the CML order book and at £5.50 inc p&p this is summer knitting at ‘ pick-your-own ’ prices . |
| 18 | Everyone knew that there were still a lot of prisoners in the surrounding country ; but only relatively few , those who were not Fascists , knew exactly where they were . |
| 19 | I mean he he spent a lot of money on the last few years on the hotel cos he had six extra rooms built on did n't he ? |
| 20 | Having cost the University of Bristol a lot of money over the previous months , I thought I ought to try to put something back , so I got myself sponsored : part of the money was to go to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council , and half to the newly-formed Bristol University Arthritis Research Group . |
| 21 | Human beings as we know are sexually dimorphic and tha that figure seems to fit the er the , the pattern , but erm women have a lot of characteristics that are peculiar to them , like for example erm more youthful looks , women will retain more youthful looks longer than men do and it is normally regarded as important and a lot of women spend an awful lot of money in the modern society on trying to remain erm looking er looking youthful . |
| 22 | I am a very busy man who has to go and earn a lot of money in the private hospital next door . ’ |
| 23 | Ralph made a friend of every pupil and on their birthday they were called to his desk and presented with a sixpence — quite a lot of money in the twenties . |
| 24 | which of course have lost a lot of money in the last year or two . |
| 25 | This was a lot of money in the mid-fifties . |
| 26 | I said we could select the venues , he could write his own cabaret show ; he could go out and do 20 minutes and pull £100 a week , which was a lot of money in the 60's . |
| 27 | ‘ There is an awful lot of software for the 390 — but it is all in bits and pieces ’ Parker claims , and so as an interim step IBM will be pulling all the pieces together into a proper server package . |
| 28 | But there has been a lot of concern about the privatised er security contract at St Helier , er the way it was subcontracted by the original contractor , er without any member of the Health Authority actually knowing about that ; I certainly did n't know and I was on the Authority at the time . |
| 29 | There 's been a lot of concern over the past few months of the rate of increase in unemployment within the Harrogate District and how as a percentage unemployment has increased in the Harrogate District rather than other districts . |
| 30 | The raising of revenue by local authorities has generated a lot of litigation in the last decade as rate-capped and community charge-capped authorities have sought to challenge the legality of the caps imposed by central government . |