Example sentences of "[adj] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've noticed climbers do this a lot . |
| 2 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 3 | Too much of this , Cis : have to use this a lot now . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 've done this a lot , have you ? |
| 5 | I 've thought about this a lot , I doubt that I could have started this channel . |
| 6 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 7 | You do try and use them through that , and try and make them more confident in themselves , they 're you know people do accept this a lot more today , than they used to , erm and you know they need n't feel quite so self conscious . |
| 8 | ‘ Except perhaps for obstructing the police by not revealing all this a lot earlier . ’ |
| 9 | To like this a lot you probably need to be able to handle silent movies — though dialogue suddenly breaks out in the final scene , powerfully underlining the film 's more serious side . |
| 10 | Dorcas had given this a lot of thought as teams of nomes sweated to pry the lids off the paint-streaked tins . |
| 11 | Naturally my friend considered this a lot of malarky , but he was impressed that the previously clean-shaven George now sported a five-day growth of beard . |
| 12 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |
| 13 | I 'm might say , what I 'm , I 'm not saying that film but in some , in some cases he do n't , you know , there has always been he do n't in this a lot of people . |
| 14 | Yeah , but you know how peculiar a lot of people are ! |
| 15 | I do n't get the feeling that they particularly care whether this murder is solved or not ; anyway they want it solved on their terms and if it 's going to muddy a lot of their holy bloody waters they 'd like us to go away . |
| 16 | And they were popular a lot of people bought them |
| 17 | Anna thought Freud was probably wrong a lot of the time , but he was beautifully , illuminatingly wrong . |
| 18 | Expect things to go wrong a lot of the time . |
| 19 | That 's it okay So if you can remember that rule the these these words are ones that a lot of adults get wrong a lot of the time . |
| 20 | Yet nobody knows how people will react if some suddenly get a lot richer and some a lot poorer . |
| 21 | Some a lot of you said yesterday that you do n't always get in this formal situation having to stand up in front of people . |
| 22 | And then of course the there were some a lot of them mass produced then there was the mass producer come in then . |
| 23 | In ISIS 2 a lot of people received heparin , although not randomised , in addition to aspirin and thrombolysis and they appeared to have a lower mortality than those who did not get heparin . |
| 24 | I 'm afraid a lot of bits fell off during the '80s . |
| 25 | Er I 'm afraid a lot of it had gone by that time . |
| 26 | Where do you think that more money needs to be spent ? erm well , the government are in the process of launching a massive new initiative called Care in the Community erm I 'm afraid a lot of people working in my neck of the woods find this rather well not amusing , but erm it 's slightly hysterically amusing , because the amount of money that would be needed to fund the projects that are identified as being necessary is enormous , and the government is in no way going to be putting up that sort of funds erm so it comes down to money , and particularly in this community care area . |
| 27 | Now we move on to the reflector and Irene in particular has got a very high a lot of the others . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's such a lot of you way down somewhere . |
| 29 | With such a lot riding on the snip of a scissor , it 's not surprising that the breast beneath the hairdresser 's gown is heaving with unrealistic expectations and conflicting emotions of hope and fear . |
| 30 | But then she was out such a lot . |