Example sentences of "have [verb] a lot [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Rival Airtours has fared a lot better .
2 On other JAR matters , the Library staff restructuring has pushed a lot more work down on to the front desk staff , and I 'm sure that the effects will be noticed in future .
3 The architect Richard MacCormac said , ‘ I believe there is a danger that classicism is being used as a cure-all architectural pill , when architecture has got a lot more to it than just putting in columns and capitals .
4 The G M B's European officer has contributed a lot here and at the cutting edge in Brussels .
5 Plumbing undoubtedly involves a number of skills , but with the disappearance of lead as an important plumbing material and the introduction of easy-to-use materials and do-it-yourself ‘ kits ’ for plumbing fittings , it has become a lot easier and more within the reach of the moderately competent amateur .
6 Corporate hospitality has become a lot more sophisticated , as the growth of sailing events illustrates .
7 Open Software Foundation chief David Tory has begun expressing hesitancy about the Novell Inc acquisition of Unix System Laboratories Inc in the US press , noting Novell 's tendency to go its own way and expressing curiosity about how it will handle the Unix Labs infrastructure : Tory said that Novell has become a lot more interested in the Foundation since the acquisition agreement , the implication being that Novell was interested in Unix Labs 's version of Distributed Computing Environment software .
8 And so even if we could produce Mercedes Benz over here alright , we probably would n't alright , unless all Mercedes Benz production were specialized over here , production has become a lot more specialized in manufacturing , where you just have large plants producing erm , the entire world production of that particular erm , product .
9 ‘ Since INR1 has been made off-limits to baby-boomers it has become a lot less attractive , ’ says Tim Schoonmaker , head of radio at EMAP , a magazine publisher once expected to bid .
10 Finally , it is worth pointing out that in some modern societies there is considerable reason to suppose that , as yet , the ego and superego-degradation has gone a lot further then the externalization of the superego functions of the state , but that there is no reason why in these circumstances the externalization process should not rapidly catch up .
11 Now the has changed a lot recently Mr .
12 Well that has changed a lot now and I think it i it , it is a good thing as well .
13 Corcoran went over on his ankle on Saturday and was quite lame on Sunday but he has improved a lot overnight . ’
14 You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today .
15 I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh .
16 Well when when we were there before he 'd got a lot there !
17 He 'd lost a lot more , Ruth noted .
18 You 'd have had to work a lot harder if I had n't been around to help with those locks and cook your food , brew endless cups of coffee .
19 East Germans who stay in work will have to work a lot harder as tough private bosses take over flabby state-run factories .
20 Once Deano/Whelan/Wallace had built up an understanding then the goals would have come a lot easier .
21 We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’
22 In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion .
23 If I 'd done English , geography and history , I might have done a lot better , but they just did n't seem to bother about you if you were doing science — perhaps it was an old-fashioned school .
24 He would have done a lot better with Speich , but the burly , moustached German did n't look very sentimental .
25 But I think if er if he 'd have had a firm 's input , that wanted something designing , he 'd he 'd have done a lot better .
26 ‘ She had already done so much and would have done a lot more .
27 I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’
28 ‘ If you want to keep your job , you 'll have to do a lot better than that . ’
29 He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it .
30 Lewis , in answering questions about his ability and nationality , will have raised a lot more among those closest to Holyfield .
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