Example sentences of "lot of [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | read it because you can do a lot of damage pressing the wrong things . |
| 2 | There 's been a lot of hype surrounding the book . |
| 3 | see I was thinking this was gon na cost a lot , a lot of money to put the phone 's in , but its not , because you just put one line in and then put different bits up the line do n't you ? |
| 4 | For the present the chances of survival are good — BR have just spent a lot of money replacing the Glanrhyd bridge , the scene of a tragic accident two years ago , also on track and signalling improvements . |
| 5 | Phil Barber , Barnard Castle National Farmers ' Union branch secretary , condemned the Intervention Board 's decision , saying the operators were particularly upset because they had just spent a lot of money to improve the facilities to offer a better service to customers . |
| 6 | Mr Lamb said : ‘ It would n't take a lot of money to celebrate the event . |
| 7 | SARU will need a lot of money to develop the infrastructure in those areas and the unions willing to play Springboks will have to pay up . |
| 8 | Erm well it depends erm the , the economics of power production are extremely erm er complex and , and t to a certain extent arbitrary erm and erm I mean there , there are various ways that the government can actually get out of this fix because obviously it 's caused a lot of concern to close the , the mines , and one is actually to , to subsidize the mines and put the price on to electricity bills er the other is to subsidize the mines er but pay for it out of the , out of , er out of taxes so it 's a basic , instead of paying for it on your electricity bill , you pay for it on your tax bill , yeah . |
| 9 | ‘ I had a lot of fun making the programme but it can get boring after a while . |
| 10 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 11 | Home-made compost is wonderful , but you will need a lot of space to make the necessary amount . |
| 12 | If there are many cable crossovers the loose tension will hardly show and will certainly make the knitting easier , but where there are few cables and a lot of plain knitting the looseness of the plain knitting will take over and make the work look faulty . |
| 13 | There 's a lot of glass making the cabin a light , airy place to be — and not a right angle in sight in the smooth , curvaceous bodywork . |
| 14 | ‘ The inspectors were under a lot of pressure to produce the report quickly . |
| 15 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , water has a very high specific heat , which means it takes a lot of heat to change the temperature of the sea significantly ; and in cold conditions , the oceans are slow to cool off . |
| 16 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 17 | A lot of confusion surrounds the ‘ where and when ’ of mast track positioning . |
| 18 | Most of my friends will buy this album and we usually waste a lot of time discussing the merits of whatever record we have recently bought , so we may well have a few arguments on whether to eat meat or not . |
| 19 | We have to spend a lot of time learning the limitations of the amplifier versus the guitar we 're using , and the microphones and console … ’ |
| 20 | But it 's not at all a bad idea to have a quick guided tour on your first day to get an idea of the layout , saving a lot of time asking the way and taking the wrong turning . |
| 21 | The foreign students spent a lot of time having the meaning of that slogan explained to them . |
| 22 | Pilots do n't have to spend their waking hours obsessed with danger , but they do have to spend a lot of time rolling the word safety around their minds . |
| 23 | His parents lived on the Isle of Skye where they spent a lot of time observing the habits of the puffins on the beach . |
| 24 | Although they were all very different ( Boy spent a lot of time noticing the differences in their physiques , techniques , cars and living rooms ) , they were also all the same in one respect . |
| 25 | All this was a strong indication that the important weakening defects lay on the surface and around 1957 Margaret Parratt , David Marsh and I spent a lot of time examining the surface of glass . |
| 26 | I always take a lot of care plumbing the depth , and even though I know this peg well , I will plumb it again . |
| 27 | Neil Holden , Hambro Clearing 's finance director , adds that they had to put in ‘ quite a lot of effort gathering the data . |
| 28 | Whereas in most databases you have to go to quite a lot of effort to create the linked structure , in Delta Five it is expected that your databases will have this structure , and you have to work quite hard not to conform ! |
| 29 | We 're going to make a lot of effort to ensure the noise is kept to as low a level as possible . |
| 30 | It 's a gamble , Folly — and it will need a lot of commitment to bring the odds round to your favour . ’ |