Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I is there a lot there ? |
| 2 | Which is rather a lot I think . |
| 3 | One example of this is the dinner at the forge , when there are guests , and they all talk about Pip as if he were inferior and Joe almost trying to comfort him , adds more and more gravy to his plate every time they say something negative about him , which is rather a lot . |
| 4 | For this I gave them about 30p , which is rather a lot , & since then they have been running up to me when they see me , offering to polish up my briefcase etc . |
| 5 | Lill on ASV on the other hand interprets this as a clearly defined slower central section which , to my ears at least , makes a great deal more musical sense — this is backed up by a comparison of the overall timings ; Gavrilov knocks a whole minute off Lill 's 7′53″ , which is quite a lot considering the brevity of this sonata . |
| 6 | In total about twenty-six copper coins were recovered from this section , which is quite a lot from just one part of a field that had no habitation on it . |
| 7 | I have £300 in there , which is quite a lot of money . |
| 8 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 9 | Which is quite a lot |
| 10 | It only describes what happens around us — which is frankly a lot less impressive . |
| 11 | It is really the Plan Five and Plan Six that that tend to be the bulk of our business , which , as I say , gives up to a thousand pound parts and labour , which is obviously a lot better than two hundred pounds . |
| 12 | Euston , St Pancras , the Gare St Lazare ? ) , or personality disorder , or fooling around , bit on the side , well she 's away a lot visiting her sister . |
| 13 | The years have been kind to Irene , though she 's still a lot more tired and worn than even the roughest of our nurses . |
| 14 | But do you know , me cousin Eric , who 's quite a lot older than me , was at Scarborough with me Uncle and and his mother and dad and he was only a little one and he was stood in that narrow street that goes off , off the |
| 15 | Well not all the time , nobody 's right all the time , but she is a right she is right a lot of the time Jonathan because some of them children misbehave |
| 16 | Mum has started to give us hell again , so she is obviously a lot better and , with luck , she will probably be home again at the weekend . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There 's rather a lot of paperwork here , things that you should be aware of . ’ |
| 18 | " There 's rather a lot of them , though , " said Marion . |
| 19 | If you 've the stamina you could fill a week with different ‘ sights ’ , but there 's also a lot to offer the more sedentary visitor . |
| 20 | There 's also a lot of stress in hobbies , sport , because you 're , you 're sort of challenged , you want to win something , or , even your hobby , you want to get something right . |
| 21 | There 's just a lot to think about is n't there ? |
| 22 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
| 23 | Not that there 's always a lot of help on offer even when an organisation does decide to call in the police . |
| 24 | ‘ Everyone gets annoyed at work because there 's always a lot about the raids on London but when Liverpool gets it they say ‘ the North West ’ . ’ |
| 25 | There 's always a lot riding on a local derby ; pride more than anything , but this match was also about survival for United and promotion for Town . |
| 26 | Oh , there 's always a lot of fat and stuff in it |
| 27 | There 's often a lot of hot air spoken about airbags — you know , the devices that inflate rapidly in an accident — but one things for sure , they certainly help save lives . |
| 28 | There 's quite a lot of the broch showing , too , almost the complete circle , with one very high bit where I 'm told there are steps going up to what 's left of the top level , with a view . ’ |
| 29 | We ought to split the schools because there 's quite a lot of them . |
| 30 | Although Liz has olive tones in her skin , there 's quite a lot of blue under her eyes , so any blues will make her look more tired . |