Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That change requires a lot of preparation and training . ’ |
| 2 | That figure sounds a lot , but does not rate very high against the estimate of 300,000 professionals — programmers , systems analysts , project managers , networking specialists and support staff — in the industry . |
| 3 | It means that psychoanalysis takes a lot longer , because you are looking at defences and ego as well as at , at the . |
| 4 | All the stack-pipes fell off in the Daily Express Trophy at Silverstone , but Graham won again and that race carried a lot of money . |
| 5 | That woman has a lot to answer for . |
| 6 | Er I think that advertising has a lot to answer for , er we have this er , you know on cigarette 's there are so many notices and yet we get all this hype in television ads about cars , well cars are basically to get you from A to B and er there should be restrictions in advertising and try and get away from this macho image that the car has , its in , its a necessity of life its not something which alters your ego . |
| 7 | That workman has a lot to answer for , I can tell you . ’ |
| 8 | And it used to be very fashionable to say that Thucydides was much the better of these two historians , he was describing erm a war in which he himself took part , he weighed the evidence very carefully , erm he produced very incisive statements about individuals and about problems , and that Herodotus had a lot of myth in what he wrote , and he was more wide-ranging , and he did n't really have the same standards of truth that Thucydides had had . |
| 9 | But making that promise proved a lot easier than carrying it out . |
| 10 | But behind that fact lie a lot of real pigs and real people , and a world of differences in the relationship between them . |