Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a lot of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid that a lot of gardeners will have been put off coir by these spurious trials , and I really think Gardening from Which ? should publish a withdrawal . |
| 3 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 4 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 5 | It 's very windy and a lot of my people have had troublew with the high winds , being knocked off the ridge . |
| 6 | Yeah this geezer who 's doing this cos a lot of his songs are like , it 's like vocal , like the vocal version to these sort of like stuff about Jamaica throw away your guns and sort of |
| 7 | Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase . |
| 8 | Well , it is really strange , because I 've done quite a lot of stage work , but it 's funny because a lot of people — even other film actors — do n't know about it . |
| 9 | I think it 's possible that a lot of the women here are saying no because of the stigma that 's attached to the word feminist feminism . |
| 10 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course I 'm not a medical man , ’ he went on , ‘ but I am absolutely convinced that a lot of mental ill-health springs from not having enough to do . ’ |
| 12 | The process is becoming laborious and a lot of energy is being expended with little result to show for it , progress is very slow . |
| 13 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 14 | It 's wonderful to be back but it 's also very sad because a lot of people are still in Iraq and Kuwait and they need to be got out . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) The system was specific and a lot of re-programming would be required to make it work elsewhere . |
| 16 | The faintly stoned Indian vocal line does n't help , and somehow this seems to me like a cross between ‘ What Time Is Love ’ and ‘ Fools Gold ’ with the charm of neither and a lot of other unnecessary junk . |
| 17 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 18 | That and a lot of other stuff . ’ |
| 19 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 20 | Obviously he was then lucky that a lot of outstanding players began to come into the team at the same period , men like Richards , Greenidge , Roberts , Holding , Croft , Garner , and he had material of the highest class on which to work . |
| 21 | As you get older , these and a lot of other things will become clear to you as being good , and you will understand that you must control your behaviour accordingly , whatever you believe about ‘ god ’ . |
| 22 | It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour . |
| 23 | Yeah , incredible cos a lot of people said already , like they 've heard it and they think it 's amazing . |
| 24 | Er and similarly the syntax of languages are often said to be oppressive of women , a lot of the way that language is structured and a lot of the words that you get in a language , that 's another thing that 's said . |
| 25 | Which which is why really at that th for the development funding they did the did n't particularly want I I P supporting because it is so structured and a lot of it is on a plate in a sense . |
| 26 | When she returned — and she would surely return soon — she would need reassuring and a lot of tender loving . |
| 27 | I am older because I have learnt , I am younger because a lot of me consisted of things older people had taught me . |
| 28 | I think that er , I 'll be very brief because a lot of it 's already been said , and you 've already , Mr Chairman picked up Mr on his dodgy figures , erm , with his five million , erm , because what that was about , just under three million was actually fulfilling our election pledges , which is something we have noticeably failed to see from this Conservative government . |
| 29 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 30 | I was very relaxed , although I am sure that a lot of the journalists , cynics most of them , were still dubious about my time in Madrid . |