Example sentences of "[verb] an [adj] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | That £5 million will buy an awful lot of sightscreens , heavy rollers and bags of loam all designed to improve the country . |
| 2 | But you ca n't buy an awful lot , you know . |
| 3 | At least , they were trying to surround it , but you 'd need an awful lot of humans to surround something the size of the Ship . |
| 4 | ‘ There are a lot of proprietary interfaces , and it will need an awful lot of work to integrate them , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Remarkably simple yet it still needs an awful lot of erm individ er people teams of people back at head office backing you know know what I mean . |
| 6 | → I would add to N B Cherry 's letter by saying that of course modern guitar design owes an awful lot to the pioneer designs of the ‘ 40s and '50s in very much the same sort of way that the modern motor car owes a great deal to its predecessors — that is to say , four wheels , petrol driven internal combustion engine etc. , etc. , you get my drift . |
| 7 | At home and abroad , Mr Gorbachev has an awful lot to lose from a fight . |
| 8 | ‘ … as they pass the three-furlong marker , it 's still the Guppy , who 's made every yard of the running , behind him a group of horses led by the grey Prince Charming , Cy McCray has yet to move on Breakdancer , Shine On has an awful lot still to do … ’ |
| 9 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 10 | Well because the labour in say this country is over productive , this has an awful lot of categories attached to each unit of labour , that 's why labour is very productive , is that you for each unit of labour employed there might be ten units of capital , I E there are chemicals etcetera , the reason why erm this this pressure on the land in say Africa , Africa , even though the density of population was much less and that there 's virtually no capital there , right , so in order to produce the food , you know the labour has to till the soil by hand and spread the seed by hand |
| 11 | Hang on lets get , in terms of Stella , has an awful lot of relatively small trivial changes which she will put through and none of us are going to disagree with . |
| 12 | I think women who are overweight have to work an awful lot harder to prove that they 're just as good |
| 13 | I 've been burping an awful lot , in my stomach . |
| 14 | Presents of mind Gifts say an awful lot about the giver — and can be hazardous : a timely warning from John Illman . |
| 15 | When we say and we 've often said it , well we could do with this , we could do with that like we used to say , we wanted the swimming pool well that cost an awful lot of money ! |
| 16 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 17 | And I do n't know an awful lot about it and there 's going to be all these stalls . |
| 18 | Well I , I honestly do n't know an awful lot about it . |
| 19 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 20 | And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not . |
| 21 | erm Well I do n't know an awful lot about it no . |
| 22 | At the time of creating the formula you 're probably fairly clear about how it works , but several weeks or months later , you 've forgotten an awful lot . |
| 23 | ‘ When You 're A Boy ’ is one of the neatest LPs of the year so far and , it must be said , causes an awful lot of Bangles products to look like Barbie with a Rickenbacker . |
| 24 | It increases the mortality of pigs and causes an awful lot of problems for anyone in the pig industry . ’ |
| 25 | It increases the mortality of pigs and causes an awful lot of problems for anyone in the pig industry . ’ |
| 26 | She seemed to know an awful lot about you . |
| 27 | You have to know an awful lot you know for grade five . |
| 28 | And a special thanks to all the families of our staff , who know provide an awful lot of support and encouragement . |
| 29 | It was extremely cheap , saving an awful lot of dynamite ; and extremely safe , both inherently and because the fuel and oxidant were only mixed on site just before use . |
| 30 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |