Example sentences of "[art] lot of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Spirituality was the lot of the clergy and the religious , who were judged to have left this crude level of human religious existence behind , through conversion and a subsequent , progressive spiritual change . |
| 3 | The lot of the Great Northern manager was eased in November by the reopening of an additional suburban platform ( No 11 ) at King 's Cross . |
| 4 | It allows the idle trappings of , albeit post-imperial , grandeur ; would suit the French much better ; ease the lot of the luckless sentinels and , who knows , even simplify the job of security . |
| 5 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 6 | The excitement , suspense , and danger which seems the lot of the police on celluloid feeds into the definitions many of Easton 's section police give to their work experience , and the supposed similarity of this experience leads them to see police films and television programmes as an accurate portrayal , to be watched avidly because of this shared world . |
| 7 | The lot of the Kursk peasant , in 1922 as shortly before 1917 , was far more narrow . |
| 8 | He was also the leader of a pressure-group to improve the lot of old-age pensioners . |
| 9 | Eliot goes on to envisage a future in which applied science replaces each theatre by a hundred cinemas , each musical instrument by one hundred gramophones , each horse by one hundred cheap motor cars , with the result that the population of the whole civilized world speedily follows the lot of the Melanesians . |
| 10 | The financial measures consistently improved the lot of the already better off while worsening that of the badly off … such a Government can not promote community . ’ |
| 11 | By 1980 it was clear that such villages were doing little to improve the lot of their members , whose livelihood now depended on their effective integration into the cash economy . |
| 12 | Eileen 's death had made the lot of them aware of depths in themselves and in each other that they had not known of before . |
| 13 | Perhaps , but at the same time the means to cope with market movements have developed enormously , bettering the lot of corporate treasurers all around the world . |
| 14 | Ending what remains of racism is eminently desirable , they say , but it will do little to improve the lot of the poorest blacks . |
| 15 | ‘ Busybodies , the lot of them . |
| 16 | It 'll be back to the cattle trucks for the lot of us . ’ |
| 17 | Stop waddlin' about the lot of yer ! ’ |
| 18 | I 'm sick of the lot of them . |
| 19 | Eventually , in June 1984 , Seawright went too far when , during a meeting of the Belfast Education and Library Board , he suggested in regard to Catholic schools that ‘ taxpayers ’ money would be better spent on an incinerator and burning the lot of them . |
| 20 | You 're idle , the lot of you . ’ |
| 21 | When was the last time the game 's robber barons made a decision of their own free will to improve the lot of the supporter ? |
| 22 | When was the last time , without duress or obligation , that a club chairman asked his directors : ‘ What can we do to improve the lot of our fans ? ’ |
| 23 | Into the jailhouse with the lot of 'em ! ’ she cried , and , one and all , the Mayor and his friends were bundled along to the dungeons of the Baddie 's Tower . |
| 24 | ‘ Get his boots off and get him below or I 'll sail the lot of you straight into the reef . ’ |
| 25 | Like the argument concerning the church and slavery , however , it must be remembered that , although priests may have alleviated the lot of a small number , the colonial epoch still retains a place in history which is notorious for the brutality shown to the Indians . |
| 26 | Women writers of the period as well as sympathetic men argued for better education as a means of improving the lot of women . |
| 27 | The poem opens with a grim summary of the lot of a woman : |
| 28 | The lot of domestic servants in the eighteenth century was in general less difficult than that of farm-workers . |
| 29 | He ought to get up and go , just like that , and to hell with the lot of them . |
| 30 | Charles did a great deal to assist the lot of the Lombardian peasantry whose lives had fared badly during the conflicts that succeeded the Renaissance . |