Example sentences of "[adj] and a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a lot of arguments for this and a lot against . |
| 2 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 3 | It 's very windy and a lot of my people have had troublew with the high winds , being knocked off the ridge . |
| 4 | The process is becoming laborious and a lot of energy is being expended with little result to show for it , progress is very slow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) The system was specific and a lot of re-programming would be required to make it work elsewhere . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That and a lot of other stuff . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When she returned — and she would surely return soon — she would need reassuring and a lot of tender loving . |
| 16 | Children starving , children who who are orphans , children on the move , refugees erm people that have nothing , nothing at all and a lot of the money is spent in this country erm particularly in cities , very poor areas of the cities . |
| 17 | But this kid goes haywire and a lot of them do I mean he 's all crash bang wallop is n't he ? |
| 18 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 19 | Human beings as we know are sexually dimorphic and tha that figure seems to fit the er the , the pattern , but erm women have a lot of characteristics that are peculiar to them , like for example erm more youthful looks , women will retain more youthful looks longer than men do and it is normally regarded as important and a lot of women spend an awful lot of money in the modern society on trying to remain erm looking er looking youthful . |
| 20 | Robin Knox-Johnson has recently been honoured at the Silk Cut Awards for his seamanship in navigating his yacht Suhali one way across the Atlantic with nothing more than an astrolabe , a cross-staff and a lot of skill , and then back without a mast , engine , radio or compass after a battering in a series of storms . |
| 21 | The tone of it is really quite offensive and a lot of people could be alarmed . |
| 22 | Take a closer look at Forte Roadside Restaurants and Accommodation , where the pace is fast , furious and a lot of fun , where the opportunity is only limited by your ambition and where there really is never a dull moment . |
| 23 | ‘ The way I left was very , very frustrating and a lot of my friends concluded that it would finish me forever in management . |
| 24 | ‘ The way I left wasvery , very frustrating and a lot of my friends concluded that it would finish me forever in management . |
| 25 | But if it is new and a lot of people go there , they will be angry , and it will be difficult to buy it . |
| 26 | Now , after over £5 million and a lot of work , it 's ready . |
| 27 | I thought , ‘ It 's the Nineties and a lot of people just do n't know what 's going on . ’ |
| 28 | The Anarkali was dark and quiet and a lot of the light was coming from the candle between us . |