Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a lot [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alliterate : witty Whicker 's wonderful way with words has a lot to answer for . |
| 2 | The school 's lollipop lady says some drivers have a lot to learn . |
| 3 | MacArthur is modestly surprised by all the praise and talk of awards that has greeted her recent performances : ‘ These roles have a lot to do with the reason I became an actress in the first place — I still think of my career as being about to begin ! ’ |
| 4 | The restored Stuarts also encouraged companies by giving them charters , and two or three trading companies did a lot to expand English interests , although settlement of land by commercial companies never regained its initial importance . |
| 5 | His parents have a lot to answer for . |
| 6 | I think circumstances have a lot to do with it though . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The universities have a lot to offer industry , and industry has a lot to offer universities , and I do n't just mean money , ’ he said . |
| 8 | If you listen to early Whitesnake records the bass is quite light in the mix , but it 's a very definite sound , and the strings had a lot to do with that . |
| 9 | He believes that industrialists have a lot to offer academic institutions in helping them to manage their resources . |
| 10 | Did the Americans have a lot to do with Walsall ? |
| 11 | I felt the teachers had a lot to do with it at the school , if I liked a teacher I liked the subject . |
| 12 | Women 's magazines had a lot to answer for , thought Lydia , with their embroidered jumpers , their mackerel and mandarin oranges , their stories of the nurse who gets the surgeon , the typist who gets the boss , contrasting so starkly with the bewildered anguish manifested by their love-ruined readers on the letters page . |
| 13 | its 40 years since the jaguar c types scored their greatest victory in the legendary race and the new look jaguars have a lot to live up to … |
| 14 | Patrick Hazlewood , of Dorcan School , agrees that teachers have a lot to answer for when it comes to explaining engineering to students . |
| 15 | One might suppose in reading this chapter that teachers have a lot to answer for ; after all , they are the ones who are responsible for accentuating sport by turning a vague , ill-formed image into a seemingly realistic pursuit for sporting excellence . |
| 16 | Tax men have a lot to answer for . |
| 17 | You guys have a lot to live up to . ’ |
| 18 | Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides . |
| 19 | Both sides have a lot to prove to their fans . ’ |
| 20 | I do remember saying that these Asian women had a lot to teach us about family life . |
| 21 | In spark-ignition ( petrol-type ) engines all gas fuels have a lot to offer , and natural gas produces the cleanest burn of the lot . |