Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a lot [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he was succeeding ; Sergeant Crane was sitting , legs crossed , only just not fidgeting , as Bruce Davidson wore on through a lot of unnecessary detail . |
| 2 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 3 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 4 | SINEAD O'Connor came in for a lot of flack when she tore the picture of the Pope on American television but by selling her home for charity she has put her money where her mouth is . |
| 5 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 6 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 7 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 8 | For example , T-connectors come in for a lot of punishment and have to put up with all sorts of strains , such as people inadvertently standing on the cable . |
| 9 | Nick Serota , director of the Tate , is at the moment coming in for a lot of criticism because he changes the displays every year . |
| 10 | The school timetable came in for a lot of criticism , especially in cases where arrangements resulted in classes split between two teachers . |
| 11 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 12 | I know Macca comes in for a lot of stick from certain members but he 's by far the classiest midfielder in the country and a damm sight better than alot of the so called european geniuses . |
| 13 | You know he does n't go in for a lot of heavy discussion about things . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I came in for a lot of adulation during my racing days — groupies . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I narrowed it down after a lot of sifting through . |
| 16 | They managed to flag a taxi and they piled in amid a lot of shouting and general drunken bonhomie . |
| 17 | " Those are rabbits down there , trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts . |
| 18 | That place was gradually being run down like a lot of the other are . |
| 19 | I hit the gunman right between the windows of his soul and he went down with a lot of sparks and technoflash that I for one was n't expecting . |
| 20 | A spokesman for the UK Offshore Operators ' Association said : ‘ Superficially , the reduction to 50pc sounds good , but the tax is tied in with a lot of allowances , including exploration and appraisal , and that has all been abolished , and that is going to have a devastating effect of exploration and appraisal . ’ |
| 21 | I replied boldly , ‘ Yes , I did see our name in that book , along with a lot of others . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ All dope fiends would be punished , ’ Thompson explained , ‘ along with a lot of innocent people , it would be an anti-drug film , in a way . ’ |
| 23 | Then Connie would move into the sanatorium along with a lot of legal talent he had lined up to look after his interests — and Connie 's , too , of course — and I 'd head for home with my five hundred . ’ |
| 24 | The Montrose was open over Christmas and so , along with a lot of other divorced and debauched actors , Charles Paris spent a week sublimely pissed . |
| 25 | ‘ No , I 've cut it , along with a lot of other passages . |
| 26 | At the G M B Centenary Congress I spoke from the platform , seconding a document on Europe and I expressed my fears and hopes along with a lot of other delegates . |
| 27 | erm there it is very difficult , all the cases we work with are fairly miscellaneous , so therefore have very individual problems , you know , that are different every time , so the anger is going to be different , but we come down to a lot of fundamental erm similarities erm often to do with bureaucracy and structures erm which people just do n't fit into , you ca n't force people to fit into boxes . |
| 28 | 4 The same piece of string , 36cm long , can be pulled in to a lot of different rectangles all having the same perimeter , but different areas . |
| 29 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 30 | She 'd read Shakespeare , Pete had n't ; not unless you counted Julius Caesar at school , which he 'd managed to get through with a lot of patience and a set of Coles ' Notes . |