Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [to-vb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | But social services are not a luxury : any complex industrial society must expect to spend a lot on social services . |
| 2 | It seems they might like to get a lot of things . |
| 3 | Well he 'll have to work very he 'll have to do a lot of work |
| 4 | ‘ If you want to keep your job , you 'll have to do a lot better than that . ’ |
| 5 | We 'll have to have a lot of luck in running . |
| 6 | He says they 'll have to find a lot of money up front before they even pay for the tags . |
| 7 | They would allow people that they thought they could trust to accumulate a lot of debt on it . |
| 8 | Given that on average each Spaniard eats 66 pounds of fish and seafood a year , and much of it comes from Galicia , you 'd expect to see a lot there . |
| 9 | Really we know still know very little about what teachers actually do in the classroom , and it 's all very well standing back in university and saying teachers should do this and should do that , but in order to be able to offer guidance I think we really need to do more research in mixed ability classrooms to discover how teachers are at the moment dealing with the situation and where we might offer them more support , and that 's the direction I 'd like to see research go in , rather than more erm of the grandiose large-scale quantitative studies , which collect lots of figures and statistics — I 'd like to see a lot more studies in actual classrooms looking at actual teachers teaching . |
| 10 | Really we still know very little about what teachers actually do in the classroom and it 's all very well standing back in university and saying teachers should do this and should do that , but in order to be able to offer guidance I think we really need to do more research in mixed ability classrooms to discover how teachers at the moment are dealing with the situation and where we might offer them more support , and that 's the direction I 'd like to see research going ; rather than more of the grandiose large-scale quantitative studies , which collect lots of figures and statistics , I 'd like to see a lot more studies in actual classrooms looking at actual teachers teaching , looking at what they do and how we can improve that . |
| 11 | You 'd have to eat a lot more . |
| 12 | but it 's not that , you 'd have to have a lot of the fireplace ripped up . |
| 13 | Where we 're taking measures from the image er such as height width etcetera we 'd have to know a lot about the image to take those measures . |
| 14 | But it may have to do a lot more than talk . |
| 15 | I may have to spend a lot of my time in Scotland now — perhaps even look for a Scottish constituency — and your work is in London . ’ |
| 16 | Sally Hibberd says it 's a tough race and she may have to run a lot today |
| 17 | She was n't mean about it , she was very grateful to have someone to talk to and I used to try to spend a lot of time with her just to cheer her up — you know , walk the dog with her and go shopping — just do all the things that would help . |
| 18 | ‘ If the savings by the closing are in the order that the authorities are suggesting , then the small payment being suggested would appear to make a lot of financial sense , while at the same time recognising the very valuable contribution of men who have given many years of service . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't think the whole question of cars and safety has never really been looked at properly it all seems to do , to be to do with cars and performance and I would like to see a lot more about cars and safety and like |
| 20 | ‘ We would like to obtain a lot more information about our invertebrate fauna . |
| 21 | The point is , darling , that in order to make sure Huerter has a future , we would have to put a lot of money in to restore a bombed-out balance sheet . |
| 22 | In a larger building , like that in which I work , I would have to store a lot of instructions of the above kind in order to find my way about . |
| 23 | So , that would be Freud 's defence , now , I suppose you would have to know a lot more about modern history , to , to know , if this was really true or not , but erm , the the er , question that Freud was really asking himself , really was , why did Wilson let us down , because Freud admits that he regarded Wilson , when he came to Europe as a saviour . |
| 24 | she would have to get a lot more fed up and tired with this old , time-frozen body before suicide became a serious alternative . |
| 25 | Anyway after Rocky Wilko would have to have a lot of Balls to drop Deane . |
| 26 | The mere 19 bars Lully provided for all this would seem to need a lot of stretching , and a good raucous oboe band would certainly come in handy to help fill out the accompaniment to these shenanigans . |
| 27 | People like Ms Pamala Klein would seem to have a lot to answer for . |
| 28 | Now you 're one of a pair , it does n't mean that you have to do everything together , but the chances are that you will want to spend a lot of your spare time with each other . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |