Example sentences of "[verb] a lot [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the present Government has a lot to answer for . |
| 2 | Elvis has a lot to answer for . |
| 3 | Adrian Boswell , it seems , has a lot to answer for . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Time is relative — and Einstein has a lot to answer for . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That woman has a lot to answer for . |
| 9 | Jean Nicot , the French ambassador to Portugal who sent tobacco seeds back to the French court in 1560 , has a lot to answer for ! |
| 10 | Alliterate : witty Whicker 's wonderful way with words has a lot to answer for . |
| 11 | STEPIN FETCHIT has a lot to answer for . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Noel Coward has a lot to answer for . |
| 14 | ‘ Your sister has a lot to answer for ! ’ |
| 15 | That workman has a lot to answer for , I can tell you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ General Bonaparte has a lot to answer for . |
| 17 | The army has a lot to answer for . |
| 18 | In Charles 's case , Montesquieu has a lot to answer for . |
| 19 | Nicola had no clean works — i.e. a fresh hypodermic ( the AIDS scare has a lot to answer for ) — and so was staying on the dope : ‘ stay low ’ coming from one of the government 's laughably ineffective drink/driving campaigns . |
| 20 | THE oft fickle world of fashion has a lot to answer for with its shapes and sizes demanding that women change themselves to fit the latest trend or quirk . |
| 21 | DICK Whittington has a lot to answer for , according to a Middlesbrough-based homeless charity . |
| 22 | According the Consumers ' Association , the supposedly great British banger has a lot to answer for . |
| 23 | This crisis has a lot to do with press hype . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That has a lot to do with my state of mind at the time . |
| 25 | Although I 'm sure that has a lot to do with the way I listen , Louis Armstrong being this all-time winner and happy guy . ’ |
| 26 | Immigration has a lot to do with this , but so do the social mores of a state that is still 60% Mormon . |
| 27 | In fact , money has a lot to do with it . |
| 28 | ‘ I think the timing has a lot to do with it . |
| 29 | I am sure too , that this safety-first instinct has a lot to do with the fact that big bream are rarely caught from small bays , those semi-circular enclosures which are so appealing to the angler 's eye , and such deadly traps for the use of a pack of predators . |
| 30 | Our temperament has a lot to do with the way we naturally handle conflicts . |