Example sentences of "lot [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 2 | Their presence and interest alone did a lot for the morale of the schools involved . |
| 3 | Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman of the Board of Governors there , thought that ‘ if the hospitals worked with the County Council they might do a tremendous lot for the co-ordination of the general health system . |
| 4 | It says a lot for the quality of the football when Vinnie Jones , inevitably booked against his old club for backchat after 29 minutes , looks the best player on view . |
| 5 | Because of its major 3rd ( as opposed to the conventional ♭3 found in a normal phrygian mode ) this scale has a very Spanish/Classical flavour and can be heard quite a lot during the solos on the track Surfing With The Alien . |
| 6 | We can therefore find out a lot about the character of the orbital from which ionization occurs by studying the form of the UPS band . |
| 7 | We heard a lot about the politicisation of the universities in the late 60s and early 70s : academic life in Germany was punctuated by demonstrations and strikes , which also helped to disrupt university life . |
| 8 | We 've heard a lot about the accuracy of the continuing bombardments , but erm anybody who 's been in a war will tell you that erm once you 're in a war situation , things do n't always go the way you expect them to , in fact there has to be an element of luck and erm the accuracy of bombing in particular erm sometimes leaves something to be required . |
| 9 | In Essex , a shire which had been at the heart of the 1381 troubles , the peasantry were able to improve their lot after the repression of the revolt . |
| 10 | My confidence came back a lot towards the end of the season . |
| 11 | You 'll have a lot of a headache by the time I 've finished . |
| 12 | No , if they bid for the franchise , then , and get it , obviously that franchise runs for the period , and by the way , a lot of the criticisms in the film , I think were based on a misunderstanding that all the franchises are going to be short , they 're not , those where there 's a substantial investment going in can be quite a bit longer |
| 13 | A lot of the motivation for the lyrics is the nastier side of my mental make-up anyway . |
| 14 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 15 | The Treasury 's once-formidable forecasting record has taken some knocks of late , so a lot of the predictions in the budget have been carefully pitched on the gloomy side . |
| 16 | ‘ Fair enough , ’ Dr Neil replied , and by the careful way he spoke he had drunk quite a lot of the whisky from the half-empty bottle . |
| 17 | Mrs Thompson said : ‘ A lot of the history of the village is bound up in the names of local places . ’ |
| 18 | So , to a degree , he 's earned the shit he gets , because of the way he 's manipulated the media — but it 's true , a lot of the criticism in the UK is stupid , really B-grade stuff . |
| 19 | And of course there was a thing we w a lot of the work in the mills was in or Selkirk and of course you went to the early train in the morning , there was a train from Galashiels to and it was full of workers going to the mills in and of course if you going er to work in a mill there , your , your foreman would come , you would draw the tools , at the , the night before you went to the job , you would take them there to the train in the morning , and meet the foreman and you would go to do the job and the same to Selkirk . |
| 20 | Answer : when it is called Microsoft Windows/NT Advanced Server — Microsoft Corp says that it has invoked the name change so as not to confuse customers since a lot of the functions of the OS/2-based LAN Manager which we know and love are already incorporated into the base operating system and Advanced Server will provide only the extras such as multi-domain management ; coincidentally of course , Microsoft will avoid discouraging any users that were n't particularly enamoured of LAN Manager 's original incarnation . |
| 21 | Answer : when it is called Microsoft Windows/NT Advanced Server — Microsoft Corp says that it has invoked the name change so as not to confuse customers since a lot of the functions of the OS/2-based LAN Manager which we know and love are already incorporated into the base operating system and Advanced Server will provide only the extras such as multi-domain management ; coincidentally of course , Microsoft will avoid discouraging any users that were n't particularly enamoured of LAN Manager 's original incarnation . |
| 22 | Garreton received a lot of the stick for the defeats against France and his Pumas days seem to be numbered , if not finished , especially after he told the French press that he would be playing in that country next season . |
| 23 | Our craft members are in danger of being poached by the A W E U. An amalgamation may not be some people 's ideal , but it will take away a lot of the friction between the two unions . |
| 24 | It er I do n't think a lot of the curriculum at the moment and erm you , you ask most teachers and they just say , grrr , forget that you know ? |
| 25 | I mean a lot a lot of the plans in the plan rooms |
| 26 | Crucially the second Republic failed to materially improve the lot of the majority of the Spanish people who lost faith in it and eventually rejected it . |
| 27 | His whimsical friend , Aubrey , was also strongly against corporal punishment , although he allowed the use of thumbscrews as a last resort ! 18 Indeed , Locke 's book encapsulates what was clearly a new and growing attitude towards child-rearing and education which was to improve the lot of the child in the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | Having said that of course quite a lot of the stories in the tabloids are actually quite small . |
| 29 | A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman . |
| 30 | Of course , a lot of the information on the course may be old ground to an applicant with experience . |