Example sentences of "a lot about [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The fact that one of the most outstanding cricketers of all time was Colin Bland , it says a lot about cricket as an athletic and gripping sport .
2 And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector .
3 I mean I do actually that we talk a lot about sustainability floor space .
4 And , er , the other problem with it is , you really have to know quite a lot about history , or biography to really to really get into .
5 He knows a lot about back play , and he 's the ideal man to put things over to the younger players . ’
6 Through that system they learn a lot about agriculture and the farm stock as well as technology skills and when they make a farm visit are well prepared for what they are going to see .
7 Kate has taught me a lot about motherhood — mostly because she approaches it in a completely different way to me .
8 Erm you know a lot about electricity , if I 'm going to use this little thin wire .
9 It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’
10 I think Currys are now into the micro marketing game and that , I think , says a lot about availability .
11 LATELY , we have been hearing a lot about date rape .
12 I learned a lot about development and about myself and about some of the origins of racist thinking .
13 Day One we talked a lot about equipment and its use ; on the second day about how to handle the birds , and on Day Three Brian went into more detail about care and treatment .
14 ‘ Mrs Simpson knew a lot about life , ’ Edward once said .
15 ‘ It taught me a lot about life , about being self-sufficient , and , ’ his voice hardened , ‘ about people . ’
16 ‘ That ’ , says Wilcock , ‘ is how I learned a lot about life and a Sophoclean scene where people were learning . ’
17 ‘ Mia 's fine , ’ said Dustin , ‘ except that she talks a lot about meditation .
18 We talked a lot about art — he could n't have been a better sitter .
19 And I would say , in our school we 've had the Aids team in and we 've talked quite a lot about sex education and they 're still sniggering !
20 ‘ The Famous Grouse sponsored Scotland 's tour to New Zealand in 1990 and through that Matthew Gloag and Son Limited learned a lot about rugby and rugby sponsorship , although at that time no suitable rugby sponsorship of world standing was available .
21 I could tell you a lot about resort children .
22 And the thing that was said a lot was a Slippery Elm stick , well I still do n't really know what it was but er it was a kind of a s , bark of the Slippery Elms , a Slippery Elm bark or something and they sharpened it to a point and inserted that into the womb you see and it was done , and then of course I heard a lot about gin , sitting in a hot bath with gin .
23 Alison Cathie says , ‘ They will appeal to everyone : for people who know quite a lot about gardening they will be a rich source of ideas ; for people just starting out they give information like how to plant in a container . ’
24 The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized .
25 Do I know a lot about boxing she said ?
26 Women who talk a lot about independence are often the most dependent .
27 Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell .
28 Enthusiasm and a willingness to learn are far more important , because working with a portastudio and a mixing desk in the rehearsal room will teach a novice engineer a lot about sound mixing .
29 Er , we are still learning a lot about traffic calming .
30 It says that other owner of PWRs are learning a lot about reactor safety as the clean-up continues .
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