Example sentences of "lot [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 2 | I wrote a lot about gay politics during the seventies , including a book on it , but when I look back on it , I do n't actually talk about sex at all . |
| 3 | Th the only thing I mentioned to the crew is to be aware of static , there 's a lot of static electricity at the moment . |
| 4 | ‘ We still believe there is a lot of untapped potential in the catchment area which stretches from Moyle to Ballymoney . |
| 5 | ‘ The increased levy on petrol will really hurt a lot of disabled people in the countryside who rely on the car for their independence , ’ Mrs Hirst , of Smyth Court , Leiston , said . |
| 6 | Proximity to the Atlantic means rainfall in Britain contains quite a lot of dissolved salts from the sea . |
| 7 | Now when you find a lot of political infighting between the Officials and the DUP , a lot of people , wrongly in my opinion , suspect that the Free Church is just the religious arm of the DUP . |
| 8 | If the latter were the case , then we might expect there to be a lot of Creole forms in the speech of both girls . |
| 9 | ‘ We found that there was a lot of problematical sickness in the non-certified days , ie a lot of people were coming back to work just before they needed a doctor 's certificate . |
| 10 | There is a lot of internal pressure in the photo community , this if you 're not close enough … |
| 11 | Women do a lot of unpaid work in the home — significantly more than men . |
| 12 | The hotel is run by a very nice young couple who have put a lot of personal touches to the decor and general cosy atmosphere . |
| 13 | But she remembers very well and erm she was able to give me a lot of personal details about the movement in nineteen nineteen . |
| 14 | ‘ People had said to me that I 'd have a lot of spare time on the film set — oh sure ! |
| 15 | Now one of the problems is in the Army , that if you do need support , it 's a sign of weakness , it 's a sign of failure , it 's almost impossible for you to get the kind of counselling and help that a lot of young lads need , and I think that a lot of young people in the Army today who maybe have got a lot of worries in their soul , and they do n't have the courage at the moment or the possibility of getting that help because of the Army culture . |
| 16 | We 've had a lot of young lads in the team and this will allow me to swap things round a bit , ’ added McHale . |
| 17 | Sybil had her eye on the main chance , and so have a lot of other women over the years . |
| 18 | Still , overall we thought ourselves lucky because a lot of other houses in the street had rats as well as mice , which was much worse because at least mice do n't bite or nibble at human feet … |
| 19 | ‘ There 's a lot of other people after the same thing , ’ Gloria explained . |
| 20 | A lot of other people in the thirties agreed : in the early years of the decade over two hundred cruises a year left British ports , and there were others leaving Continental and American ports too . |
| 21 | It was extremely difficult for me to write down one good characteristic about myself , let alone ten , and it was quite evident that whereas I saw myself as perpetually black , I saw my wife , Joyce as shining white and a lot of other people in the same colour . |
| 22 | But even if you are convinced that David wrote the Psalms and Moses write the Pentateuch there are still a lot of other books in the Old Testament . |
| 23 | Teacher : I 've brought a lot of new boxes from the shop . |
| 24 | We have also added nine new Listening Tests ( on a new Listening Tests cassette ) and included a lot of new work on the Guided Writing question of the Use of English paper , Paper 3 . |
| 25 | He 's made mistakes , but like Souness he 's in the painful process of re-building a side with a lot of new faces in the line-up . |
| 26 | But at least it brought in a lot of new business for the organisation which now likes to call itself the listening bonk . |
| 27 | These exhibitions received a lot of favourable criticism from the Berlin bourgeois press . |
| 28 | In 1989 , 1990 and 1991 New Millennium holidays have attracted a lot of favourable comments in the news media of which the following are a few examples : |
| 29 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |
| 30 | There was a lot of emotive talk about the UK 's only helicopter company selling out to the Americans , but in the event the Sikorsky-Fiat minority involvement won the day and Heseltine resigned from the government . |