Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [art] lot of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't you agree that you never know what you are going to find there but on the other hand if you ignore the expiry date and crunch it all up with a lot of jam , or even a lot of Nivea , it all goes down the red lane and things start to brighten up ? |
| 2 | That it 's actually trying to enforce a pattern of family life that perhaps a lot of people do n't want ? |
| 3 | T er erm moving onto erm the area of erm , the fact that obviously a lot of people round here have got very limited incomes . |
| 4 | But he was still covering the door and-to move his seat apparently just for the sake of moving would seem suspicious — and it occurred to him that Washington DC would be full of people who knew the surveillance trade that tonight a lot of people would be running genuine surveillances . |
| 5 | Boyfriends are encouraged to visit , although not a lot of them do . |
| 6 | It 's something that not a lot of people take notice of , as I say , until they become a victim of it . |
| 7 | It 's very interesting work , although quite a lot of it is elementary . |
| 8 | But he added : ‘ I suspect that quite a lot of British MPs … will decide that power is now moving towards an enhanced European Parliament . ’ |
| 9 | One of the reasons for this , she explains , is that quite a lot of the small and medium-size firms in her area ( Hampshire , Dorset and Sussex ) do not want to recruit from the Big Six where most of the redundancies have been made . |
| 10 | Lawyers say that quite a lot of Jason 's £35,000 will go in George 's fees . |
| 11 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 12 | This also conceals the fact that quite a lot of it has appeared in print before in one form or another , a factor to bear in mind before parting with 35.50 . |
| 13 | The fact that quite a lot of effort had actually gone into actually going int having negotiations with the Local Authority to , to rehouse all the tenants . |
| 14 | And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing . |
| 15 | Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important . |
| 16 | you go up along drive in and Newminster is on your left and Chantry is on your right , at , but I should imagine erm I should imagine that quite a lot of Chantry School children would be sent home because they 're for the children outside of Morpeth , you know they go there from |
| 17 | Though I suspect that what we will find if we really are honest with ourselves that quite a lot of things which we see here are not always exaggerated from the point of the exercise , that we exaggerate things out of all proportion so that we can actually start looking at it and seeing . |
| 18 | you 'll find that quite a lot of what you 're saying is then seen |
| 19 | I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it . |
| 20 | Although outwardly a lot of disassembly , cleaning , refurbishing and re-riveting was accomplished , it was to US spec rivets and fixings , largely unco-ordinated and more importantly , undocumented . |
| 21 | That 's something Friends of the Earth agrees with : ‘ It concerns us that recently a lot of proposals for courses have luxury houses or hotels with them , getting permission to put buildings where they might not otherwise have been . ’ |
| 22 | The following Friday evening , after spinach soufflé , baked potatoes with sour cream , and rather a lot of excellent claret , Clare found herself sitting naked to the waist in the firelight . |
| 23 | And so a lot of women continued to wear these erm rubber garments . |
| 24 | erm schools just do n't help girls to have both and so a lot of the talk about underachievement , and I do n't like that word , amongst girls really ignores the fact that girls are n't underachieving when they do n't go all out for occupational success , when they do n't set their goals very high in schools , they are being very rational because if they do achieve they are going to be faced with immense problems . |
| 25 | The national companies such as Mexico and Venezuela are still re-organizing themselves and obviously a lot of time , effort and nervous energy is being spent by people on figuring out what to do in the C I S , where there are obviously great opportunities , but great risks as well . |
| 26 | And not a lot of fun … ’ |
| 27 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 28 | He was in the Navy and away a lot of the time . |
| 29 | ‘ We wanted people to enjoy an afternoon in the pub without alcohol and hopefully a lot of them went away reassured . ’ |
| 30 | This meant that a large part of the lesson time was wasted getting on buses and to and from the slopes instead of learning to ski and also a lot of walking around in boots and carrying skis . |