Example sentences of "lot of [noun pl] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very dark , and there were a lot of clouds in the sky . |
| 2 | It does n't er really sort of er er in a sense prevent er or mitigate against a lot of a lot of developments in the countryside . |
| 3 | He 's got all sorts of schemes a lot of schemes in the pipeline . |
| 4 | There are a lot of ducks on the pond . |
| 5 | You have a lot of nicknames in the factory ? |
| 6 | There were quite a lot of shorts in the collection , taking the place of the recently fashionable short skirts . |
| 7 | I ran into a lot of sceptics on the North Shore . |
| 8 | There were a lot of lorries at the side of the road . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There 'd been a lot of changes under the malais , I 'll give them that , even if most of the development was for reasons of military necessity and accomplished , like the Japanese for whom they had more than a sneaking admiration , with forced-draft labour . |
| 11 | ‘ I moved here in September so I have only been here a short time and we have had a lot of changes in the past because of the moves Eric has made , ’ she says . |
| 12 | I would n't use the word enemy but we have seen a lot of changes in the relationship . |
| 13 | Now listen answer the question I asked you , answer the question I asked you , she has taken a lot of drugs in the past , not Prozac . |
| 14 | There are now quite a lot of members from the village who have joined . ’ |
| 15 | Kaitlin has run a lot of times over the course and the fact that the Michael Grassick stable is in form leads me to make him the choice in the Newcastle Maiden Hurdle . |
| 16 | We 're going to keep making a lot of investments in the future because that 's what we 're excited about , and if that means we would sacrifice some short-term profitability for long-term technology , we would do that , ’ he said . |
| 17 | He 's probably got a lot of contacts along the way for anything anything you want you ask him okay . |
| 18 | In fact , he made the initial call for me , as he has a lot of contacts at the station because of his job . ’ |
| 19 | And erm obviously I 've got a lot of contacts in the industry . |
| 20 | I said you put one lot of checks in here and I 'll put a lot of checks in the other . |
| 21 | But on the other hand as is often the case , there 's so much that you 've got you do n't need , that when you finish your removal you want a whole lot of boxes in the corner out the way until you 've sorted er everything else out . |
| 22 | Even then there were a lot of women in the gallery business , though not as many as today . |
| 23 | When Joe gave no immediate answer Martin had sighed as he said , ‘ There are a lot of women in the world , laddie , thousands and thousands of ‘ em . |
| 24 | Marie , 25 , from Telford in Shropshire has a lot of problems at the moment , and needs a good friend . |
| 25 | ‘ There were a lot of problems with the welfare state , ’ I said , ‘ but that was no reason for trying to do away with it . ’ |
| 26 | and he causes a lot of problems for the opposition . |
| 27 | Talking of ‘ inflation ’ — a neat theoretical idea of exponential growth in the early history of the universe that disposed of a lot of problems in the marriage between theoretical physics and cosmology — he refuses to subscribe to the overwhelming enthusiasm with which many scientists discuss the subject : |
| 28 | And there 'll be a lot of families in the middle , where they 're not sure whether they fall in one category or the other , but they dislike having to take their cap in hand and go ask for another subsidy . |
| 29 | There are a lot of players at the moment who ca n't make the step from club to international rugby ’ . |
| 30 | So there was , there 's a lot of sections of the community out , out there in terms of the business community , who have actually indicated that the County Council should be spending more in terms of economic development not less , and they criticized the Commission in terms of identifying some of the reductions which they have made erm , as part of this year 's budget alone . |