Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 2 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 3 | Mrs Howard said : ‘ Unless we are given a lot more resources we will not be able to carry out the weekly monitoring required . |
| 4 | Somebody 's been eating a lot of those have n't they ? |
| 5 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 6 | Well many of the traditions nowadays , even the male orientated ones are depending a lot on women to upho hold them . |
| 7 | If you are using a lot of roses in your pressed flower pictures , you may find it worthwhile making up a small stock of finished roses in different colours to save time when you are in an inspired mood and want to concentrate on a design rather than the various techniques involved . |
| 8 | If you are using a lot of abbreviations in a document keep a note of them beside the keyboard as you can easily produce a lot of nonsense if you accidentally use the wrong abbreviation . |
| 9 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 10 | We are helping a lot of kids and that makes me feel good . ’ |
| 11 | We are helping a lot of kids and that makes me feel good . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been given a lot of support from fans , especially letters written to me nearer the time . |
| 13 | ‘ The Iranians have been given a lot of leeway in the hope that they would cease to have a terrorist agenda . |
| 14 | One approach that has been given a lot of importance is distinctive feature analysis , which is based on the principle that phonemes should be regarded not as independent and indivisible units , but instead as combinations of different features . |
| 15 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 16 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 17 | Been painted a lot ! |
| 18 | Those at high risk are eating a lot of fat and very little dietary fibre . |
| 19 | They are becoming a lot more common , yes when you look in the report and accounts there are far , far more of these deferred pensioners there than er than ever used to exist and it 's something which I must admit we have n't given a lot of thought to yet , but it 's something because it 's growing that we will have to address erm in our federation , we will have to address that problem . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been driving a lot . ’ |
| 21 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 22 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 23 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 24 | I am writing a lot in my diary in mid and late May , but nowhere do I make any direct mention of the 13th . |
| 25 | Er we 're getting a few bodies back into the team emptying the treatment room and and things are looking a lot better . |
| 26 | exactly but because of that they 're playing the ball through the Forest er midfield and they are looking a lot better side . |
| 27 | Things are looking a lot better than 48 hours ago . |
| 28 | Getting into your loft quickly and safely has been made a lot easier with the unique collection of aluminium and wooden ladders and staircases available from the Loft Shop . |
| 29 | 2.35 : Public works section arrive to repair a fence which has been causing a lot of problems . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're building a lot more houses here too , are n't they ? ’ said Karen . |