Example sentences of "[noun sg] had a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The across-the-board respect for green thinking had a lot to do with this change in atmosphere — so too did the disappearance of the ‘ Soviet threat ’ . |
| 2 | I hoped that Jack Mason had restricted his intake of real ale last night and that he was feeling as cheerful as I was , though my happy frame of mind had a lot to do with Sally Drayton . |
| 3 | Willink as a lawyer had a lot to do with the administration of the Church and saw the argument that an archbishop must be able to bear a load of administration . |
| 4 | The Old Testament had a lot to say about God administering fire . |
| 5 | The same theme recurred frequently ; because arts students had few timetabled hours , science students tended to assume that they did little work , although one first-year physical science student did note that most of her work was done in lectures and labs , while many girls on her corridor had a lot of background work to do outside timetabled sessions . |
| 6 | The decision based on a number of current offspring , larger numbers can be greater benefited with and therefore it 's more likely that if the parent had a lot of er offspring then he would continue with the investment and erm the conclusion from now is that males have a greater reproductive success , therefore they are more likely to desert because they can erm and erm this and erm the basic argument of this is one parent can get away with investing less share of erm resources they 're likely to spend more er then they 're to do it , so in other words erm if , if one of the , of the two is being to get away with having the other they can go out to er pursue their own and therefore erm each partner force the other to invest more . |
| 7 | ‘ Neither team had a lot to offer when they reached the 18-yard line and I ca n't really see the replay being much different . ’ |
| 8 | The director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor but since this was to be Silverstein 's first theatrical film he did n't want to have to find himself dealing with ‘ A consummate ego ’ , as he put it , and then added , ‘ no , huge ego ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm aware now that Gran had a lot of money . |
| 10 | But father had a lot of Gaelic words . |
| 11 | His father had a lot of money in BCCI . ’ |
| 12 | The role of England captain had a lot to do with the split . |
| 13 | For tragic Tony Hancock 's TV career had a lot more going for it than the poorly-performed Blood Donor in 1961 , still his most famous show , even though it was all acted off cue cards . |
| 14 | It would mean that our man had a lot of time available for manoeuvring . ’ |
| 15 | Each depot had a lot of food . |
| 16 | The crowd had a lot of influence , and rightly so because they turn up week in and week out . ’ |
| 17 | If two such people , the one popular with Conservatives , the other a nominee of the new Liberal Government in London , took that view , the Prince had a lot going for him . |
| 18 | However , Mr Jeno Horvath , a member of parliament and legal expert , said parliament had a lot of unfinished business and had decided the public might be confused to see it dissolved but continuing to function . |
| 19 | The brother and sister had a lot more in common than was at first apparent . |
| 20 | We first visited Orkney in 1952 , on a family holiday , and I suspect that experience had a lot to do with stimulating my love of islands . |
| 21 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 22 | Lord 's fitness had a lot to do with his rally from a 2-0 deficit in games but Newton did not help his cause by incurring numerous conduct penalty points . |
| 23 | William 's grandad had a lot of friends , unless they were there only to make sure he was safely laid to rest , where he could n't get up to much more mischief . |
| 24 | Personally , I think the loss of Alan Hansen through injury had a lot to do with it . |
| 25 | I really detested them , and I think my stepfather had a lot to do with that as well . |
| 26 | But your your mother had a lot of the old words ? |
| 27 | Mother had a lot of good words too , I must say , but er it was him we learnt a lot of wor And granny especially you learned a lot of words of hers . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh yes , mother had a lot of money , so my stepfather was n't poor any more . ’ |