Example sentences of "to have a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all experience and that 's what you have to have a lot of before getting your own way about anything . |
| 2 | Reflecting in 1968 on the difference between him and Communists of the older generation , he said : ‘ They seem to approach reality by way of certain abstract categories , which seem to them to have a lot of meaning and to reflect concrete experience … ; [ whereas ] members of my generation tend to use as a starting point reality as it exists at the moment , they form general concepts on the basis of this reality and they disregard categories which seem to have lost their relevance and to function more as incantations than as concepts . ’ |
| 3 | It seems to have a lot to do with how rapidly our twentieth-century world has changed , particularly in the West . |
| 4 | Yes , I know it looks like an inverted yacht and that the garde that the D series was avant never materialised , but a production-line car which combines such a ridiculously optimistic view of the public 's aesthetic sensibilities with so much understanding of daily long-distance driving has to have a lot going for it . |
| 5 | I tend to have a lot of sausage and bacon because it 's easier and my time is somewhat at a premium with around a dozen cattle to care for . |
| 6 | What you also need to do is an annual cashflow projection , which will show the periods when you are likely to have a lot of bills coming in and how long you are likely to have in between to put money aside for the tough months . |
| 7 | Less than a fortnight later a panic call from Mrs Brodowitz revealed that Anita was engaged to a man she had known for only two days — ‘ a real Cockney , who appears to have a lot of money ’ . |
| 8 | In the early '60s , Selmer 's ( who had the distinction of distributing both Fender and Gibson guitars at the time ) used to have a lot of their Fenders sprayed here , owing to the differing tastes of British guitarists back then — the Shads ’ influence , I would think . |
| 9 | I intended it to have a lot of humour . |
| 10 | People like Ms Pamala Klein would seem to have a lot to answer for . |
| 11 | ‘ I used to have a lot of fights and got a reputation . |
| 12 | We used to have a lot of good nights like that and this was up there among the best . |
| 13 | This hypothesis does not seem to have a lot going for it because , at the time Matthew — or whoever — was writing , there would still have been a few people around who could say something like I do n't remember any star ! ' ) |
| 14 | Its mouth was open and it had an expression on its face of someone who is going to have a lot of difficulty explaining what they have just seen , especially to themselves . |
| 15 | People from the South tend to have a lot of outmoded ideas about service . |
| 16 | But I remember I was on the way into Howard 's bungalow , and Bogie was coming out , having just seen my screen test , and he said , ‘ We 're going to have a lot of fun together . ’ |
| 17 | Digital Equipment Corp executives remark that the Open Software Foundation better make some progress in the coming months stitching up the wounds of the old Unix wars and accommodating itself to new alliances or else it 's going to have a lot of trouble getting funding from its sponsors next year . |
| 18 | But I do expect to have a lot of laughter , I do expect to have a relaxed and open atmosphere . |
| 19 | Tom Murray did not want to have a lot of girlfriends , but just one for good , one he could be deeply serious about . |
| 20 | Erm Yeah they used to have a lot of trouble in submarines and things as they had problems with their batteries flooding and then they start to electrolyzing the sodium chloride , the salt the sea water , and getting chlorine given off . |
| 21 | ‘ You seem to have a lot to say , ’ said Silver . |
| 22 | As a piece of hardware the Touchmaster tablet appears to have a lot going for it compared with its rivals like the Grafpad and the Koala-pad . |
| 23 | That 's obviously going to make a difference to you , ’ he commented : ‘ Well , it 's marvellous to have a lot of support ’ . |
| 24 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 25 | I mean we have dealings with solicitors for all sorts of things , asking for reports and we send a lot of notes away to have a lot of er medical opinion reports and they take ages to come back . |
| 26 | I want to have a lot of money in the bank . |
| 27 | Aye , we went on the train to Dunfermline and we used to have a lot of trips . |
| 28 | Cos we used to have a lot of factories you see |
| 29 | D R DOS , er sorry M S DOS Five did , I thought I was going to have a lot of trouble , and it did n't . |
| 30 | You do n't want it to have a lot of corn . |