Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | er this rate is fixed and can only be changed by agreement with Brussels er and as we 've seen in the last few years , our normal currency exchange rate has fluctuated quite a lot er and in fact has er become fairly weak , but the green pound has stayed the same so there 's quite a difference between our exchange rate and the green rate . |
| 2 | ‘ My fitness has picked up a lot in the last two or three weeks and I 'm kicking a ball and running fine , ’ said Owers . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ He vehemently opposes active regional policies , he has wound up a lot of the government 's aid to the North and during his term as Industry Secretary he has done nothing to create new technology and skills or back new firms and enterprise in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 4 | John Ambrose should be well known to visitors to recent Woodworker Shows , as he has won rather a lot of medals in the turning competitions . |
| 5 | tell me about taking bearings , what do you do , let's give you an example , of some bearings to take , erm , and then you can tell me what you 're doing , so there 's a point there , and we 'll call that erm , P , just to be awkward , now let's say what we 'll do , this is what we 'll d , this is a typical problem in fact , erm , I 'll even draw that line on for you to start with , yeah , here 's the problem , a ship is sailing due North , okay , and when it 's at the point of A it takes a bearing on the lighthouse , so the lighthouse is somewhere , do n't know where it is , but bearing of L from A is forty five degrees , and the bearing of L from B , which is when the ship has sailed on a lot further |
| 6 | Since those early days , Scott has turned out a lot of above average horses who have not only kept his smallish stable ticking over smoothly but have at times produced results which have had the bookmakers running for cover . |
| 7 | CREAM cake king Chris Liveras has stirred up a lot of controversey since he decided to build a cake factory the Preston Farm site once earmarked for development by the Ministry of Defence . |
| 8 | He apparently has done quite a lot of good work in the past . |
| 9 | ‘ The head brewer at Clark 's has helped out a lot , ’ said Ryburn 's owner , Harold Coburn . |
| 10 | ‘ The new seismic has shown up a lot of interesting fault trends in our northern block , which is a continuation of those successfully explored in other companies ’ areas , ’ Stephen said . |
| 11 | That year nine student has got quite a lot to say , has written a very nice letter of complaint to god , bending god 's ear , say just one minute god . |
| 12 | Chris has got quite a lot of , he 's got Old Kent Road and Whitechapel Road . |
| 13 | However , the evidence also suggests that information spillovers are more important in research than in development , and that a firm has to do quite a lot of its own R&D , if it is to be able to absorb information spillovers effectively . |
| 14 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 15 | Tamati has taken on a lot but life from here should not be dull for Salford 's long-suffering support . |
| 16 | Later her brother unwittingly reinforced the impression that she hired and fired staff when he said : ‘ In a quiet way she has weeded out a lot of the hangers-on who surrounded Charles . ’ |
| 17 | Certainly over the last quarter of a century it has changed quite a lot . |
| 18 | In America where initially it was done one state after another , it actually has changed quite a lot and erm the developments have been very interesting , partly because they 've been in the courts rather than in Congress . |