Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid that a lot of gardeners will have been put off coir by these spurious trials , and I really think Gardening from Which ? should publish a withdrawal . |
| 2 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 3 | You can get the same sort of information from a Mel Bay book but going to Joe and doing it in a rock/heavy metal format made it a lot more interesting and a lot easier for me to learn . |
| 4 | It 's very windy and a lot of my people have had troublew with the high winds , being knocked off the ridge . |
| 5 | Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it . |
| 6 | I think it 's possible that a lot of the women here are saying no because of the stigma that 's attached to the word feminist feminism . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course I 'm not a medical man , ’ he went on , ‘ but I am absolutely convinced that a lot of mental ill-health springs from not having enough to do . ’ |
| 8 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 9 | The process is becoming laborious and a lot of energy is being expended with little result to show for it , progress is very slow . |
| 10 | He was part of her past now , and the future was a little more serious and a lot more dedicated . |
| 11 | It 's wonderful to be back but it 's also very sad because a lot of people are still in Iraq and Kuwait and they need to be got out . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) The system was specific and a lot of re-programming would be required to make it work elsewhere . |
| 13 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 14 | If fewer , it 's faster , either a little or a lot , depending on the speed of the camera — the projector speed is , of course , constant . |
| 15 | This will be a more flexible list because prices tend to creep upwards ( except when you want to sell anything ) and your tastes and finances might well change a little or a lot along the way |
| 16 | Obviously he was then lucky that a lot of outstanding players began to come into the team at the same period , men like Richards , Greenidge , Roberts , Holding , Croft , Garner , and he had material of the highest class on which to work . |
| 17 | I think it 's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it . |
| 18 | It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour . |
| 19 | Yeah , incredible cos a lot of people said already , like they 've heard it and they think it 's amazing . |
| 20 | Er and similarly the syntax of languages are often said to be oppressive of women , a lot of the way that language is structured and a lot of the words that you get in a language , that 's another thing that 's said . |
| 21 | Which which is why really at that th for the development funding they did the did n't particularly want I I P supporting because it is so structured and a lot of it is on a plate in a sense . |
| 22 | When she returned — and she would surely return soon — she would need reassuring and a lot of tender loving . |
| 23 | Aside from these sorts of problems , I believe all of us who presume to speak on behalf of the other animals should worry , not a little but a lot , about the possibility of the Goliath of contemporary environmental concerns co-opting the David of animal protection . |
| 24 | I think that er , I 'll be very brief because a lot of it 's already been said , and you 've already , Mr Chairman picked up Mr on his dodgy figures , erm , with his five million , erm , because what that was about , just under three million was actually fulfilling our election pledges , which is something we have noticeably failed to see from this Conservative government . |
| 25 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 26 | I was very relaxed , although I am sure that a lot of the journalists , cynics most of them , were still dubious about my time in Madrid . |
| 27 | I think Kenneth had a strong sexual imagination and I am sure that a lot went through his mind , but J do n't think it went further than that . ’ |
| 28 | Well it 's quite , I 'm sure that I 'm sure , I 'm sure that a lot of , I 'm sure the rich peasant |
| 29 | No it is n't erm and erm even those who in , in my experience who did get through there was just an occasional er time when they did n't pass that part of it , they , they , they , they could n't quite manage that , the height side frightened them and er they failed , erm so there 's quite a lot of demands on them and I 'm sure that a lot of women could do it and a lot of women if they had the chance would do it or would , if they were willing to do it , but it 's not something that grabs most women , I do n't think it does , I think it 's the physical side that puts them off , and that is what is the problem with the Fire Service , it is a physical job . |
| 30 | But I do n't feel as if , I mean it 's it 's not the most pleasant thing in the world but it 's certainly fucking sa it 's safer than a lot of their more easier to put on and take off than and fucking safer and more effective than a lot of their contraception devices . |