Example sentences of "lot [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As somebody who is still under thirty and er like my good friend Mister young enough to have a positive approach to Europe , I am pleasantly surprised that the people opposite are gon na make my job a lot easier because the narrowness and the anti-diluvian attitudes that we see on the benches opposite explain why , in the last Euro elections , the Labour Party won a resounding victory on the issue of Europe . |
| 2 | Not like a village it 's a parish it 's a lot bigger than a village |
| 3 | There was an odd-shaped room , not a lot bigger than the cab of the truck itself . |
| 4 | It should all be a lot clearer when the Chancellor speaks next Thursday . |
| 5 | I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said . |
| 7 | Yeah , it 's the first time these actually keep a lot better than the towelling ones . |
| 8 | I think we 'll all be a lot better when the summer gets here |
| 9 | Alright , so a pound spent in agriculture , alright , is much less , is worth a lot less than a pound spent elsewhere , right , cos farmers are relatively inefficient . |
| 10 | The actual title of the course matters a lot less than the content , but a word of caution is necessary here to help you differentiate between programmes designed to prepare you for re-entry to the profession , and those which may be open to nurses currently practising , namely ‘ refresher courses ’ . |
| 11 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 12 | And there 's also some cases where er the plans have actually partially lapsed since last renewal and in which case it 's quoting the premium they 're paying now which is a lot less than the premium they were paying at renewal . |
| 13 | And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude . |
| 14 | The argument that Sizewell will make electricity cheaper than it would otherwise be , is probably a lot weaker than the board claims . |
| 15 | That rudder movement equals braking and so it 's slowing you down , it may look impressive being heeled over like this but I 'd sail a lot faster if the boat were flat . |
| 16 | Community care requires a lot more than a syringe . |
| 17 | It is going to take a lot more than the plethora of locally-driven modest venture capital funds to effect any worthwhile change . |
| 18 | As the Republican Guard tightens its grip , the Iraqis stand to lose a lot more than the war |
| 19 | We need complete control and this means a lot more than the farm assured schemes — although they are a start — and it is something we put a huge amount of work into . ’ |
| 20 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 21 | Should a victim die , they could find their good samaritan act has cost them a lot more than the penny which was paid to the Jericho-Jerusalem Motel . |
| 22 | And we have branches , but we could have a lot more because the amount of branches we have , although we have a lot of branches of Scottish Old Age Pensions we are not old age pensioners are not united , they 're not united , the only way they can be united , if it 's a national organization , join your national organization and fight the government . |
| 23 | We can do one hell of a lot more if the whole of is combined in Europe and fighting it 's corner because as sure as hell that golden triangle in the South East is not gon na give us a slice of the action unless we take it , and for the members opposite to site their with their ancient out-dated ideas of Liberalism , right ? |
| 24 | It is bad enough when parents treat ordinary children as though they were scabs and bunions , but it becomes somehow a lot worse when the child in question is extra -ordinary , and by that I mean sensitive and brilliant . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's a lot higher than a lot of our competitors are achieving . ’ |
| 26 | If your filter is to be sited a lot higher than the pond , perhaps to feed an impressive waterfall , remember that you will need a more powerful pump to raise the water to the filter . |