Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] a lot " in BNC.

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1 For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort .
2 For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort .
3 For Paul Slay coming to Oxford to shop takes a lot of effort .
4 I 'm beginning to see things a lot more in perspective .
5 Whether MCC , his financial empire , really is going to cost bankers a lot of money is not yet certain , but it will surely given them some sleepless nights .
6 Because educational institutions are largely staff ed by professionals , there has , in the past , been a tendency to allow individuals a lot of freedom to use their professional judgement in deciding how best to achieve the aims of the organisation .
7 A year later , with a second sale , the British Museum and other astute buyers started to collect shipwrecked porcelain , which was beginning to tell historians a lot about the 18th-century European buyers and their influence on the East .
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