Example sentences of "a lot [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd be a lot iller if it were . |
| 2 | Not every day like we used to just after her accident , but quite a lot all the same . |
| 3 | Do you think we 're doing a lot all in one go ? |
| 4 | The Bull & Gate is still standing , somehow , and a lot wiser for this night . |
| 5 | We might have been a lot wiser if , presumably to preserve their privacy , they had n't always used English in front of Maria . |
| 6 | Yet nobody knows how people will react if some suddenly get a lot richer and some a lot poorer . |
| 7 | ‘ Sir George would be a lot richer . |
| 8 | I think it 's made life a lot richer for us . |
| 9 | He is a lot richer tonight than he was this morning . |
| 10 | ‘ They were a lot richer than most people round here and had more status . |
| 11 | In theory , things can only get better ; in practice , they may well become a lot worse before Wasps return in the league next March . |
| 12 | Things may well have been a lot worse five years ago . |
| 13 | To put it crudely , the experts may ( perhaps ) have done better than the widow in Boise , Idaho , would have done for herself , but still a lot worse than using a pin . |
| 14 | Yet , as the latest troubles with Olympia & York and the Tokyo stock market remind us , the recession shows no sign of ending and could get a lot worse unless real interest rates are brought down with a bang — and that means willingness to put the exchange rate mechanism second to domestic monetary policy . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a lot worse here than where we are . ’ |
| 16 | It could have been a lot worse . |
| 17 | got a lot worse |
| 18 | Bad behaviour may seem a lot worse on a day when the washing machine has flooded the kitchen floor than on a day when everything has gone well . |
| 19 | As this is n't actually a direct film licence I wo n't dwell on it for too long ; just long enough to warn you that it 's a particularly poor platform product , with the only good feature being that the Amiga version was a lot worse . |
| 20 | Neighbouring farmer Graham Rankin believes the problem has ‘ got a lot worse ’ since Brick Kiln received planning permission two years ago . |
| 21 | In many such cases , vets often castrate the apparent aggressor , but this invariably makes matter a lot worse . |
| 22 | It could have been a lot worse . |
| 23 | ‘ We were just shocked after the robbery but felt that it could have been a lot worse and no great harm had been done to anybody . |
| 24 | Mr Branson pulled out after news that Dan-Air 's financial situation could be a lot worse than expected . |
| 25 | ‘ Bassett had taken a lot worse and not reacted . |
| 26 | Anyway , you 'll say it 's none of my business , but I can tell you , you 'll go further and fare a lot worse . |
| 27 | ‘ It looked a lot worse than it was . |
| 28 | People who try to hurt him usually find they come off a lot worse than he does . ’ |
| 29 | It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions , but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extra -ordinary , and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant . |
| 30 | ‘ They are old friends and they have been through a lot worse than this over the years . |