Example sentences of "not a lot [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 To make them think there 's not a lot of work and that you know ?
32 Not a lot of bottle in bottled water
33 Not a lot of activity .
34 At this time of year not much , it 's been a dryish summer , and there 's not a lot of water coming down .
35 I 've come home to my dinner and I 've not a lot of time to spare . ’
36 There 's not a lot of bacon .
37 As you can see , there 's not a lot of room for ice cream , crispy pancakes or TV dinners .
38 As with most coupes there is not a lot of room in the back , even kids find it tight .
39 Not a lot of room one side of it !
40 Cos there 's not a lot of room in your classroom is there ? lot of room
41 Not a lot of weight as you imagine because they 're all little tiny sprigs this high , and obviously what they are going to do , they were being taken to south Wales where they going to start off a new little forest presumably .
42 So it 's not a lot of lot of bother the only thing is that i you got ta drive in town rather than drive on country lanes to get to the main roads little bit more dangerous as far as getting caught is concerned ha !
43 He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was .
44 Well n not , not a lot of radio now .
45 I would argue that in the past we should be doing much more to encourage people to go to and from erm regional airports and I , I think that is important , they do need to be expanded , but a lot of the evidence erm er there 's stacks of evidence which is founded in sort of er exercise is er in fact that there 's not a lot of unreprimand , I mean , I wished that there were .
46 There 's not a lot of death in advertising .
47 So minus a hundred and twenty there I mean that 's they 're just the there 's not a lot of difference really .
48 Yeah but there 's not a lot of difference in the amount of time is there ?
49 Green water can actually be beneficial to your pond fish and a few weeks in a thick green soup can improve your fish 's vitality and colour — but if you ca n't see the fish , there 's not a lot of point in keeping them .
50 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 ) .
51 So there 's not a lot of point if I say well can you tell me what you 're doing ?
52 Well you do n't see them so there 's not a lot of point is there ?
53 Not a lot of point having a fence there they were climbing over it .
54 Well there 's not a lot of point telling you la , if you 've seen it is there ?
55 Well there 's not a lot of point having it now
56 We 've got some smudges but that 's not a lot of use . ’
57 It 's not a lot of use is it really ?
58 The first is not a lot of use in an indirect system , since once the mains stopcock has been turned off , most of the water left in the rising main can be drained out from the kitchen tap .
59 Well I 'm I 'm sorry but I 'm not a lot of use to him if I let him just walk away from the shield .
60 Unfortunately , the print echo is only active whilst the CLI indicator is present , so this not a lot of use to us !
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