Example sentences of "[be] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , accordingly , it has been the lot of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial to be close to fifty years in the making . |
| 2 | Part-time , low-paid , flexi-hour jobs have been the lot of many women in West Belfast with other ( unpaid ) women in the family and the community taking care of the children . |
| 3 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 4 | More interesting for the British observer has been the lot of the Progressive Democrats , like the late Alliance a new party competing with two older and stronger parties . |
| 5 | There had been the lot , or so it had seemed , at Cambridge : socialists , communists , socialites , die-hard dinner-jacketed Pitt Club Tories , Bohemians , Christians , lacrosse and rugger players , sloggers , poets , actors , Leavisites , wits , bores , eccentrics , homosexuals ; to Cambridge they flocked , from ancient grammar-schools , upstart grammar-schools , progressive schools , public schools , private schools , even from private tutors in the South of France . |
| 6 | Well there you are the lot again . |
| 7 | I do n't know I mean I do n't know nothing about these things , what , really have to feel that we are the lot |
| 8 | You 're a lot of stick-in-the-muds . |
| 9 | The kind of people who 'll order a guitar like this Manson will argue in reply that : ( a ) a production guitar will never have a handmade guitar 's combination of all the right bits with that extra edge of quality ; ( b ) it 's obviously better to go for a traditional design than some mutant battle-axe because you 're less likely to get sick of it and they 're a lot easier to customise further and there 's nothing better at fitting into virtually any style of music than an S-type or a T-type ; and ( c ) it 's their money , anyway . |
| 10 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 11 | If the latter , we 're a lot better off with a restrained government than with a rampant one . |
| 12 | They 're a lot to deal with . |
| 13 | Only 3% rate themselves as a little worse than most and virtually no one says they 're a lot worse than most . |
| 14 | They 're a lot of idle beggars and there are too many people in the world anyway . " |
| 15 | I think if you ha , if you look at Burns in the context of the time in which he lived , he was not an exceptional drinker or an exceptional womanizer , we 're a lot like him |
| 16 | You 're a lot less stressful , you get to the end of your journey a lot fresher . |
| 17 | They 're a lot of the problems in tend to be directed towards or because of the flats . |
| 18 | Both Kosi and Lars figure that we 're a lot closer to Moloch than to Belial , but we 're going to have to get there under our own steam . |
| 19 | If some i Well well you could I mean if you went out with someone and you thought they were pretty naff talking to the employer again six months later and say , Oh they 're a lot better . |
| 20 | Er what we 'll do is that I 'll give you another eight of these , now if they 're a lot better just s give a ring in |
| 21 | I think they 're a lot calmer . |
| 22 | I mean the they 're a lot better than other shoes . |
| 23 | That 's the other problem with Windows is there 're a lot of things you ca n't twiddle after you 've installed it . |
| 24 | Or they 're a lot different . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're a lot friendlier than your master , ’ Isabel informed the horse . |
| 26 | Head ( as revealed by the classroom observations ) : ‘ You 're a lot better than we thought ! ’ ( verified note of meeting ) |
| 27 | You know they they 're a lot of the older men makes you wonder have they been sacked so they do n't have to pay them hand shakes at the end you know if they wanted to lay some people off . |
| 28 | Now erm in the main the most the people who go and talk , if they talk genuinely to their their other half or I always say partner instead of , nowadays that 's politically correct I think , erm then they so they 're they 're a lot of the times they 're talked out of it . |
| 29 | But if there 're a lot of people have got evenings you know |
| 30 | You 're a lot tougher than you look . ’ |