Example sentences of "a lot [prep] [noun] at the " in BNC.

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1 There 's a lot of competition at the moment in between our territory team and the other territory team
2 There were a lot of lorries at the side of the road .
3 Which put me off gambling for good , because whilst we won every day , it seemed , we 'd lost a lot of money at the end of the year .
4 Hm , it 's not worth paying a lot of money at the moment , when you get better at it Back pack 's it is , seven ninety nine .
5 Yeah well I said to Geoff , well I hope Geoff soon gets his money because he owes Geoff a lot of money at the moment !
6 They learned a lot of things at the twisted knee of William 's grandad , and one of them was misogyny .
7 It is worth distinguishing between the management power structure and the general production structure , because what we have got increasingly are quite a lot of women at the professional level , working in individual production teams , as producers and directors of individual series or individual programmes .
8 The investigation was a lot of nonsense at the end . ’
9 There was a lot of bell-ringing at the time , but then , 1883 was the year of the Dynamitards and the Daphne disaster .
10 Any contribution , no matter how small , is very much appreciated and I am sure that you and your colleagues will have a lot of fun at the same time !
11 There are a lot of players at the moment who ca n't make the step from club to international rugby ’ .
12 In fact , he made the initial call for me , as he has a lot of contacts at the station because of his job . ’
13 Marie , 25 , from Telford in Shropshire has a lot of problems at the moment , and needs a good friend .
14 There 's gon na be a lot of changes at the end of this century , the beginning of next century in Europe and if we 're not with them then we 're gon na be left behind .
15 And th then we 've got a lot of work at the moment which we 'll retain .
16 Skinner was trying to talk about psychology as a science because a lot of psychology at the time was n't and if you ask pe I 'm sorry that my sort of talking 's coinciding with people 's conversations but er er will you try and finish it .
17 Do n't take any notice of this , this is my friend Marc here , he 's speaking a lot of crap at the moment .
18 John Hancock , executive design engineer for the Engines Group division of Cosworth , said the engine received a lot of attention at the show in Detroit : ‘ We 've talked to a wide range of people who might want to use it , or derivatives of it , ’ he said .
19 Philippe Perrin , a tricksy and extremely clever artist-cum-poet who also operates under the nom de guerre of Starkiller attracted a lot of attention at the gallery Air de Paris from Nice with six sketches of Sarajevo under bombardment painted in blood .
20 The family have kept back a lot of material at the manor .
21 After a lot of confusion at the police station I was brought in .
22 Erm , I mean , all in all they did , they did get the final result , the scene came together right from the last eleven minutes to achieve the result , but it was just there was a lot of confusion at the beginning of the start .
23 There were a lot of guards at the gate , and some more guards marched past the building .
24 There were a lot of cars at the farm but nobody around .
25 A lot of cars at the school this morning .
26 I 'm not really worried about it to be honest I 'm not worried about any of them , I thought I would actually be erm I 'm actually , we 're under a lot of pressure at the moment but I 'm not actually , usually when I 'm like that it 's all gone I tend to say well forget about it and you know run away from it kind of thing ,
27 but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely .
28 I a lot of pain at the back of my eye though
29 There 's been a lot of trouble at the Brotherhood , they say — them two quarrelling at meetings . ’
30 That has always been our intention and you will find that this attitude makes a lot of difference at the time when it really counts .
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