Example sentences of "[be] [det] a lot of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 2 | There 's been such a lot of faff about so |
| 3 | Voloshin argued against him and then Modi interrupted : ‘ You 're all a lot of bloody innocents . |
| 4 | Believe me , the CIA , the KGB , Mossad , MI6 are all a lot of coarse novices relying on schoolboy cruelties and inaccurate hearsay compared to the knowledge and sophistication of the hareem information system . |
| 5 | And then of course the there were some a lot of them mass produced then there was the mass producer come in then . |
| 6 | There were such a lot of us … |
| 7 | ‘ There were such a lot of women in his life . |
| 8 | There were such a lot of people there . |
| 9 | Hopefully , by the time the lingering effects of physical addiction have worn off , there will be sufficient group cohesion and peer pressure to persuade the sufferer to stay in treatment and thereby counter-act the urge to believe that the problems were all a lot of fuss about nothing . |
| 10 | And you know it is amazing what you can achieve really by you know there is such a lot of scope really . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's such a lot of you way down somewhere . |
| 12 | It 's such a lot of smoke . ’ |
| 13 | There 's such a lot of er erm extraordinary sayings in this er epistle . |
| 14 | There 's such a lot of work goes into them . |
| 15 | I think it 's because there 's such a lot of mixed people here now . |
| 16 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 17 | It 's awful really when you think there 's such a lot of people got away with it all |
| 18 | Even when presented with photographs showing obvious emaciation from starvation , the sufferer from anorexia may comply with forced feeding through intravenous or naso-gastric infusion in hospital but still continue to believe that this is all a lot of fuss and that other people are the ones who really have problems . |
| 19 | Which I know is all a lot of money and let me just tell you here , what we have spent this year on advertising . |
| 20 | To justify this and Stalin presents it as a revolutionary me measure , as a shift to the left , as the creation of socialism , to justify it er Stalin presents the argument that the whole world is moving forward to a new stage on the road to socialism , it 's all a lot of nonsense but the ideological needs of the regime in Russia are determining the advice which is being given to er various communist parties . |
| 21 | Well just well if , because it 's all a lot of it 's to do with this alca alchemical |
| 22 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 23 | It was all a lot of fun and of course very encouraging . |
| 24 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |