Example sentences of "a lot [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 1,531 drums and 8,221 cylinders still outstanding , representing assets worth £3.5 million , they certainly have a lot to go for . ’ |
| 2 | There 's going to be a lot to do for a holiday . ’ |
| 3 | There 's a lot to do for the Feast . ’ |
| 4 | It gave photographers a lot to aim for ! ’ |
| 5 | I think the present Government has a lot to answer for . |
| 6 | Elvis has a lot to answer for . |
| 7 | Adrian Boswell , it seems , has a lot to answer for . |
| 8 | Patrick Hazlewood , of Dorcan School , agrees that teachers have a lot to answer for when it comes to explaining engineering to students . |
| 9 | Myself and Parco Polo seeks meaning in what it does to us , and it left me thinking that the late Italo Calvino has a lot to answer for . |
| 10 | Time is relative — and Einstein has a lot to answer for . |
| 11 | The fifties was a fuller-figured look , but the sixties , that was Twiggy — she 's got a lot to answer for . |
| 12 | The technique throughout is nearly always good , sometimes splendid but , oh dear , the subject matter : twee little harbours with neat fishing boats , oast houses ( Rowland Hilder has a lot to answer for ) , Highland lochs and flower arrangements are the main preoccupations . |
| 13 | The cutting comes from a feature on breweries , and it seems that HO 2 has a lot to answer for : ‘ although TT myself , my lab friends frequently described local beer as rodent or feline effluent . |
| 14 | That woman has a lot to answer for . |
| 15 | Jean Nicot , the French ambassador to Portugal who sent tobacco seeds back to the French court in 1560 , has a lot to answer for ! |
| 16 | Alliterate : witty Whicker 's wonderful way with words has a lot to answer for . |
| 17 | STEPIN FETCHIT has a lot to answer for . |
| 18 | However , I feel that the ‘ caring professions ’ have a lot to answer for in terms of the attitude held by the general public . |
| 19 | People like Ms Pamala Klein would seem to have a lot to answer for . |
| 20 | ‘ Angela , you have got a lot to answer for . ’ |
| 21 | His parents have a lot to answer for . |
| 22 | Tax men have a lot to answer for . |
| 23 | One might suppose in reading this chapter that teachers have a lot to answer for ; after all , they are the ones who are responsible for accentuating sport by turning a vague , ill-formed image into a seemingly realistic pursuit for sporting excellence . |
| 24 | These spion ’ — Myeloski used the Russian word — ‘ have a lot to answer for . ’ |
| 25 | The trade unions have been largely silent and it was felt that the media had a lot to answer for in this department . |
| 26 | Mind you — - " she jerked her head in the direction of the Russell , which had recently returned from Plymouth and lay at anchor in the Pool , " 'E 's got a lot to answer for . |
| 27 | Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego . |
| 28 | Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides . |
| 29 | Women 's magazines had a lot to answer for , thought Lydia , with their embroidered jumpers , their mackerel and mandarin oranges , their stories of the nurse who gets the surgeon , the typist who gets the boss , contrasting so starkly with the bewildered anguish manifested by their love-ruined readers on the letters page . |
| 30 | A lightweight bout saved in the dying seconds — Manchester 's still got a lot to answer for . |