Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] a lot " in BNC.

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1 With the introduction of the new conveyancing scheme the legal process of acquiring a home should be made a lot easier .
2 They should be getting a lot of work through the Channel Tunnel project .
3 I think it should be done a lot younger as well .
4 Must be doing a lot of
5 However it might be expecting a lot for him to win four races and it could be that Simon Beck , who starred at the TT , will score his first Irish success .
6 You might be alienating a lot of the audience you are trying to reach .
7 To do so might be to meet a lot of the problems of youth in our society before they become social problems as well .
8 Obviously all of this detail I explain to you here I 'm just giving you a brief overview it 'll be explained a lot more on the training course .
9 From what I hear we 'll be seeing a lot of each other . ’
10 ‘ If you do n't co-operate , I 'm afraid you 'll be seeing a lot more of them .
11 Erm you 'll hav have plenty of opportunity of writing them down and erm you 'll be given a lot of extracts of music like you probably were in that book
12 Alas , they 'll be getting a lot more as a result of the Telegraph 's scoop .
13 And I 'm pretty sure you 'll be getting a lot of spellings right soon .
14 Always useful , for the future because we 'll be getting a lot
15 ‘ When I 'm all done here I 'll be spending a lot of time in your world .
16 Right well you 'll be doing a lot more of this in your marketing .
17 you 'll be doing a lot more
18 The world 's great love of the panda could be causing a lot of the damage .
19 The college could be improved a lot .
20 Now , we could be denying a lot of very experienced noble colleagues the opportunity to contribute to debates , quite probably through no fault of their own , as we all realize .
21 You could be spending a lot of time in serious thought , much to the consternation of those around you .
22 Up to 10 per cent overweight and exercise occasionally If you are a little overweight for your height and are doing some moderate exercise each week , but agree that it 's not really optimum and you could be doing a lot better , you need to follow an " improver " programme .
23 I could be earning , I could be making a lot more money , for it , fund raising money for it
24 but I think that a sort of , the time we have perhaps on a could be used a lot more constructively .
25 and I 'd be paying a lot more in bus fare
26 Back to front , cos he 'd be carrying a lot of of hay on his back and that was to stop the hay seed , going down between it shirt and his skin .
27 But with the wind behind Forest I I would think Leicester would be expecting a lot of pressure .
28 It was during the Easter holidays and the streets were full of holiday-makers — I would be seeing a lot of them in the future .
29 An alternative procedure would be to ask a lot of speakers to say a list of sentences in different ways according to labels provided by the analyst , and see what intonational features are found in common ( for example , one might count how many speakers used a low head in saying something in a ‘ hostile ’ way ) .
30 And even over a period as long as 15 years we would be paying a lot less ( £184 millions ) than the £684 millions that will go next year to safeguard the Falkland Islands from the Argentinians — a matter which many ecologists see as a fight between two bald men over the possession of a comb .
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