Example sentences of "lot of [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | f ) Lots of rags and tissues . |
| 2 | They 're they you they 're all worked you know sandpapered and polished that 's rough , what they call rough work and then you gradually go onto the maybe staining and the just quite a lot of oak and there 's quite a lot of mahogany and walnut . |
| 3 | To justify this and Stalin presents it as a revolutionary me measure , as a shift to the left , as the creation of socialism , to justify it er Stalin presents the argument that the whole world is moving forward to a new stage on the road to socialism , it 's all a lot of nonsense but the ideological needs of the regime in Russia are determining the advice which is being given to er various communist parties . |
| 4 | Well it 's like what most exercises are , it seems like a lot of nonsense but actually when it comes to the crunch , you actually know what 's going to happen , you know the the procedures and everything like that . |
| 5 | Socio-cultural anthropologists do not need to be expert anatomists or geneticists or specialists in the biology of nutrition but they are likely to talk a lot of nonsense if they do not take account of what experts in such matters have been able to discover . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 8 | It 's a walking area ; there are a lot of ramblers and hikers there . |
| 9 | I do n't wear a lot of make-up or anything like that so it does n't take me long — probably about 10 minutes or so . |
| 10 | I do n't know how many years it went on and then there were a lot of ploughs and boys a lot of their own ploughs I think . |
| 11 | So why do n't you avoid a lot of unpleasantness and unlock the door ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It was a raucous noise but there was a lot of excitement and it was great . |
| 13 | It has been known for many years that rich clusters contain a lot of gas and dark matter , but Ponman and Bertram 's result shows that these features apply more generally . |
| 14 | Cos if they ca n't read through a lot of text and sort it out they have n't got much chance . |
| 15 | This means it 's good for applications where you 're collecting data by picking from prepared lists ( surveys , insurance claims , and so on ) , and poor if you want to enter a lot of text and numbers using the pen . |
| 16 | through sexual abuse , and I think we spend a lot of our time , and I think even for teachers , we spend a lot of our time undoing a lot of the damage of helping young people , undo a lot of damage that 's done by sex . |
| 17 | There would be a lot of damage and a few people would get hurt , but the lads would be away by the time the police could get round to the place . |
| 18 | say basically the same thing ; that , as emperor , he has the power to do a lot of damage and that power can quickly corrupt men , however noble or good they seem to start off . |
| 19 | What is it , after all — just think for a minute — but a lot of reformist and flatulent ‘ left-wing ’ politics ! |
| 20 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 21 | He had expected some sordid den with a big wardrobe , a lot of shoes and a bed laid for business . |
| 22 | It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates . |
| 23 | And I have a job which involves quite a lot of travel so I am not too restricted about where I live . |
| 24 | But ‘ are ’ also has a certain flavour of ‘ ought to be ’ : a lot of oral and written advice to women ( for example , in the problem pages of women 's magazines ) urges us to make use of this supposed talent . |
| 25 | ‘ He needs a lot of leg and seat but try to keep your hand light . |
| 26 | Although ComputerEasy Draw is more basic than the more expensive packages , you wo n't be paying for a lot of functions that you will rarely or never use , and it 's certainly rich enough in features to make it a worthwhile investment for most everyday drawing requirements . |
| 27 | Racing at Ayr up in Scotland where it is dry , Nottingham , Cheltenham where the Mackeson Gold Cup is , big card at Windsor with a lot of runners and finally the all-weather racing at Lingfield . |
| 28 | Fluency means being able to speak promptly , without a lot of hesitation or stumbling . |
| 29 | The playback session now has a purpose for everyone and , incidentally , a lot of listening and discussion is going on . |
| 30 | Captain Phil Davies said : ‘ There has always been a lot of cloak and dagger about this but this is the first year clubs as a whole have indicated the presence of professionals . |