Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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1 | Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier . |
2 | Pete must have watched a lot of Open University programmes on the outside . |
3 | And as it turned out , private investors in Concorde would have lost a lot of money and minded terribly . |
4 | For all practical purposes at this stage sir she may appear to you to be a fit and proper person I 've no doubt the Licensing Committee will want to know a lot more about the situation sir . |
5 | East Germans who stay in work will have to work a lot harder as tough private bosses take over flabby state-run factories . |
6 | If you are going up to senior positions movement is essential ; even people who may plateau out at middle management will have done a lot of different jobs for three , four , five years . |
7 | Well , practical purposes at this stage sir she maintains insufficient I 've no doubt the licensee will want to know a lot more about the situation , it 's very apparent it 's not long ago that they last ta transferred to their present holding . |
8 | People like Ms Pamala Klein would seem to have a lot to answer for . |
9 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
10 | Each tag will have to hold at least the information : This will mean that the few home addresses or home buckets which have large numbers of synonyms will have to allocate a lot of space for these tags . |
11 | Along with the products would have gone a lot more of the people than USL cut loose right before it got bought . |
12 | But social services are not a luxury : any complex industrial society must expect to spend a lot on social services . |
13 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
14 | A mystery man in her life would have explained a lot . |
15 | Mean time between failures on 3.5 ’ disk drives made by IBM Corp of 750,000 hours will have to get a lot nearer the 2m or more hours of the company 's manhole cover disks before it can entrust mainframe data to arrays of the little ones , Electronic News reports : that 's funny , we thought the whole idea of disk arrays was that one built sufficient redundancy into the array of cheap disks that no-one need worry about failures ever again . |
16 | But the ancient world would have found a lot more uses for citrus fruit . |
17 | Anyway after Rocky Wilko would have to have a lot of Balls to drop Deane . |
18 | A second-hand tractor front axle would have cost a lot more . |