Example sentences of "lot [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But there 's a lot of entertainment here at the Shrewsbury Flower Show for the children ; entertainers like Mr. Boom here .
2 And I know a lot of things too with the girls who came to us , we tried to erm give them er a sense of their worth as a women and not to constantly be oppressed and to accept erm what their boyfriends did or said , and so on .
3 This man Gennaro obviously has a lot of influence even among the less desirable characters in this city , or at least in this part of it .
4 ‘ We have lost a lot of ponds all over the country , so the ones we do have are even more important as wildlife habitats . ’
5 It contains a spring , and the youngsters have a lot of fun there in the Orkney summer , They shout and lark about , the way growing children have always done .
6 The satellite pictures shows a lot of cloud just to the east of us , but you 'll see that it is moving away .
7 He was a lot in the news this autumn as he made a lot of goals both in the league as well as in the UEFA-cup .
8 Hankin added : ‘ Ellison scored a lot of goals earlier in the season .
9 In '77 , the New Musical Express helped briefly to divert a lot of punks away from the nihilism of the Sex Pistols towards Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League .
10 There seems to be a lot of interest nowadays in the radio of the past .
11 In that last summer term we spent a lot of time outdoors in the convent garden , in that part of it where our noisy unhallowed feet might tread .
12 Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor
13 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
14 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
15 I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong .
16 For the purpose of understanding the basic relationship between price and yield , the following needs to be explained , without going into a lot of detail here concerning the issue of Treasury bills .
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