Example sentences of "a lot [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I reckon if we practise a lot during the holidays if you play with the pennies and things and think about the spellings and try you know you do n't have to read through the whole dictionary just learn some |
| 2 | Because of its major 3rd ( as opposed to the conventional ♭3 found in a normal phrygian mode ) this scale has a very Spanish/Classical flavour and can be heard quite a lot during the solos on the track Surfing With The Alien . |
| 3 | I understand you 've been socializing quite a lot with the Italians over the last twenty four hours or so . |
| 4 | Now , the er , whilst we can not expect them to adopt say our ideals , because we are er , you know , we 're probably more modernised in lots of ways , but we can set a standard which they work towards , and er , he mentioned about the fact that people er , the unemployment 's coming down a lot with the jobs , they 're just part-time jobs , and they 're very cheap paid jobs , and very er bad conditions for a lot of people as far as health and safety goes . |
| 5 | ‘ No , but I 've worked a lot with the police . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've shared a lot over the years . |
| 7 | Your continuous improvement in in the factory a lot over the years . |
| 8 | The New Internationalist has changed a lot over the years . |
| 9 | It said a lot about the times and included some witty — but strangely unwieldy — material in Nicholson 's script . |
| 10 | ‘ We took machines apart several times and I learned a lot about the controls and the electrical cabinet . |
| 11 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 12 | The most disturbing figure was the relatively small number of accidents to make this grim total — 7,960 — which says a lot about the circumstances . |
| 13 | We do not do this , but we could — and the reasons we could , but do not , tell us a lot about the factors involved in decisions about activities in the landscape , including settlement siting . |
| 14 | To be able to create different effects by changing plants around is exciting , and it also tends to teach us quite a lot about the relationships in spacing of plants , of different shapes and habits of growth . |
| 15 | ‘ Everyone gets annoyed at work because there 's always a lot about the raids on London but when Liverpool gets it they say ‘ the North West ’ . ’ |
| 16 | I 've heard such a lot about the risks to eyes after infection with dog dirt and I 'm very worried . |
| 17 | Going to be er quite a a lot on the Moors so they reckon . |
| 18 | The tests may indeed produce something of a learning-for-the-test mentality , and the extent to which the tests pose a problem will depend a lot on the kinds of pupils : how well the values implicit in the school ethos match and are supported by those of their home , and how far advanced is their disaffection with school . |
| 19 | A lot of the tunes represent not only musical goals , but more down-to-earth events of recent times with my life — unlike the other records which were more fantasising about other-worldly situations or remembering dreams and make-believe world material . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Then it was realised that the collection could n't be part of Backhouse , because a lot of the specimens had been collected before Backhouse was even born . ’ |
| 21 | To do so might be to meet a lot of the problems of youth in our society before they become social problems as well . |
| 22 | But , but a lot of the problems that come into our advice centre have been caused by people signing erm credit agreements and then realizing they ca n't afford the payments . |
| 23 | And I do feel that by just following a few simple rules like that we can avoid a lot of the problems that come into our advice centre . |
| 24 | Rather than having to remove the children from them , to have more resources at our disposal , to either help erm parents to develop better parenting skills , or erm I mean , because a lot of the problems again are from poverty , a lot of the pressures are from poverty . |
| 25 | They 're a lot of the problems in tend to be directed towards or because of the flats . |
| 26 | is where a lot of the problems come in . |
| 27 | I think a lot of it is about erm how these er people , you know how really a lot of the problems for people are in their relationships with the people around them , |
| 28 | A lot of the problems of alleged and actual extremism by local councils might , of course , be solved by changing the local voting system ( not necessarily the thin end of a nation wedge ) but Mrs Thatcher will never consider that . |
| 29 | They used all these Americanisms because a lot of the problems were American . |
| 30 | I would like to have information on that because often allergies erm are at the root of a lot of the problems . |