Example sentences of "a lot of [noun sg] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needed a lot of experience to be able to hold it correctly so that all the twenty-five shots in the magazine riddled the target . |
| 2 | There is a lot of money to be won this week and people should earn it not only on the course but off it as well . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There is still a lot of money to be made , ’ says Muggleton . |
| 4 | During the affluent 80s when it seemed property prices soared higher each day , there was a lot of money to be made in real estate . |
| 5 | ‘ Making the decision to come in is difficult for an investor , ’ Sir Bob Reid said in a recent interview , ‘ as there is no easy exit once you are in , and there is not a lot of money to be made in the railway business . ’ |
| 6 | In the Chichester area , she said , the minimum cost of a hardwood coffin is £300 , which , ‘ seems a lot of money to be burned ’ . |
| 7 | Thought he 'd make a killing , you see ; a lot of money to be made from property development . ’ |
| 8 | There 's a lot of money to be made in that if you want little bits of , put things here and there that you can different |
| 9 | cos it 's a lot of money to be perfectly honest |
| 10 | There are possibilities for a great range of skills to be used in volunteering and for a lot of enjoyment to be had into the bargain . |
| 11 | There was a lot of enjoyment to be had , but this was tempered by the anxieties and fears that many had felt during earlier stages , when girls were worrying about parents ' reactions , or trying to conceal the pregnancy . |
| 12 | It takes a lot of skill to be able to learn in this way , although it is the way often taught at school — the old talk-and-chalk method of ‘ You listen while the teacher talks ’ . |
| 13 | But I think it is it could well be counter-productive to put bans on buying tropical timber , particularly blanket bans , on the other hand , I think there 's a lot of case to be , a lot of point in asking people and pressing people to say whether the folk that the timber is coming from sustained yield forest . |
| 14 | But further research was needed on climate change : ‘ Before we can translate this into practical policy and precise targets , there is a lot of work to be done as a matter of urgency . ’ |
| 15 | Even with an ample supply of new molecules from nature there is still a lot of work to be done . |
| 16 | It must be admitted , though , that this very informal technique does require quite a lot of work to be done both before and especially after the interview and the researcher is always in danger of forgetting to put a point forward or not being able to understand his or her own notes afterwards . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's still a lot of work to be done on the timing of the throw . |
| 18 | ‘ The new laws are there , there 's a lot of work to be done in implementing them and coaching players to best effect . |
| 19 | CA has also set up a similar bundling agreement for CA-Unicenter with Sequent Computer Systems Inc , however , this version still has a lot of work to be done on it and is n't likely to appear until this time in 1993 . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's one hell of a lot of work to be done , but I 'm sure we 'll make it if we give those niggers a kick up the backside . ’ |
| 21 | There 's a lot of work to be done . |
| 22 | The town had been largely burnt and rebuilt ; it looked uninteresting and , as there was a lot of work to be done on board , I did not go ashore . |
| 23 | But he admits there 's still a lot of work to be done before the Commission does itself out of a job . |
| 24 | ‘ Umm … although it 's only been half-restored to its original state , and so there 's a lot of work to be done . |
| 25 | There 's a lot of work to be done on that . |
| 26 | We had moved house and there was a lot of work to be done . |
| 27 | ‘ Not only are people needed during the summer to supervise children and organise activities , there is a lot of work to be done beforehand , planning a timetable , and arranging helpers and activities . |
| 28 | He says his new post will not be a quiet one and expects there will be a lot of work to be done in the parish , which also covers the villages of Cockfield , Woodland and Butterknowle . |
| 29 | So I think there is a lot of work to be done there , but as you rightly say , it has to be done carefully and one must n't get the dependency on calculators which one does see around one . |
| 30 | I think only twenty four per cent thought that , that flu was preventable , so er there 's a lot of work to be done to get the message across . |