Example sentences of "[be] the 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 | In both cases , humanity — however dissimilar may be the lot of the lonely sea captain from that of the woman who comes " stooping out of the … fowl-house " — seems dwarfed and overwhelmed by the environment . |
| 9 | When will the spiral end , and what will be the lot of the individual then ? |
| 10 | that 'll be the lot . |
| 11 | May be the lot does . |
| 12 | I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units . |
| 13 | The comfortable classes could take it for granted that such conditions were the lot of the working classes : sad but normal . |
| 14 | The meaning of democracy shifts even further once it is interpreted within the terms of the Calvinist principle of the Godly society , where it is the lot of the just to assume power and to guide the citizens in the paths of righteousness . |
| 15 | It is the lot of all parents of teenagers , I presume , and all you can do is say , ‘ I love you , but I hate what you are doing . ’ |
| 16 | Such is the lot of Soviet managers . |
| 17 | The charity , run by Pat Kerr , cares for destitute and deprived children , rescuing them from the unending poverty that is the lot for many people in these Third World countries and from broken and inadequate homes . |
| 18 | This is the lot of many families . |
| 19 | They heard the barking of the dogs , the shouting of orders , and they waited because that is the lot of prisoners . |
| 20 | Such is the lot of the football manager that constant criticism has to be lived with . |
| 21 | The Rev Hammer stands resplendent in battered hat , pleated hair and a grin so friendly he might even stand a chance of getting in the Camden Palace , and announces ‘ There 's two shcools of folk — the scholars with 27 different versions of the same sea shanty , and the get drunk/dance a lot/make free love … this is the lot I 'm interested in ! ’ |
| 22 | I hoped that in the Queen 's Speech the Government would set out a programme that showed that we were prepared to play our part in removing the scourge of poverty , of short life and of environmental destruction which is the lot of so many people in the world . |
| 23 | The Rev Hammer stands resplendent in battered hat , pleated hair and a grin so friendly he might even stand a chance of getting in the Camden Palace , and announces ‘ There 's two shcools of folk — the scholars with 27 different versions of the same sea shanty , and the get drunk/dance a lot/make free love … this is the lot I 'm interested in ! ’ |
| 24 | And that 's the lot . ’ |
| 25 | I 'll settle for your bloody two million dollars but that 's the lot . |
| 26 | So we 've got twenty one minus X those are the ones going to Whitby , and we 've got X going to both , and we 've got thirteen minus X , and that 's the lot . |
| 27 | Erm , ratio of injuries to deaths er for all accidents as a function of age and sex , and again , you can see males have , males do a lot worse than females and I think there 's one more , no sorry that 's the lot . |
| 28 | There daddy and that 's the lot . |
| 29 | Is that it , I do n't want the veggies , grapes , pears , iceberg , toms , cress , I think that 's the lot . |
| 30 | And that 's the lot I think . |