Example sentences of "[was/were] not a lot of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buckingham Palace were n't a lot of help in the matter yesterday . |
| 2 | Were n't a lot of choice was there ? |
| 3 | There were n't a lot of bleach in it . |
| 4 | There were n't a lot of room but you do n't care do you ? |
| 5 | There was not a lot of style about the way food was served either . |
| 6 | There was not a lot of laughter in the second act , but it is true there was not a lot in Chaplin 's later life . |
| 7 | Er there was not a lot of enthusiasm for this er th this guarding which went on you see , because everybody was in sympathy er with the cause of the republican government , the S the Spanish republican government . |
| 8 | This shows that Thomas earned about £6 : 18s. , plus Richard 's 5/ , during five months … it was not a lot of money to keep a family of 11 ( it would have been 13 save that Elizabeth , born in May 1836 , appears to have died in infancy ; and of course Sarah was gone ) . |
| 9 | There was not a lot of point in bringing these gifts , since her father 's allotment kept them well supplied with fresh vegetables ( although he did not grow sweet peas , considering them more trouble than they were worth ) . |
| 10 | ‘ There was n't a lot of heart in our marriage , Sam . ’ |
| 11 | After that it was n't a lot of fun . |
| 12 | There was n't a lot of choice . |
| 13 | There was n't a lot of money around ; that was eight years ago . |
| 14 | This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use . |
| 15 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 16 | But I did n't go to town till half past ten I was going to me mother 's at half past eleven , so there was n't a lot of time . |
| 17 | Well , there was n't a lot of answer to that , was there ? |
| 18 | With chemistry , things like organic chemistry , where you had to know every reaction , you could n't work it out , you had to know everything that was going to happen — there was n't a lot of understanding involved , it was mainly slogging . |