Example sentences of "lot of the [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I mean a lot a lot of the plans in the plan rooms |
6 | With the result that , to this day , the guys spend a lot of the service in a kind of crouching position . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Having said that of course quite a lot of the stories in the tabloids are actually quite small . |
9 | He 's pretty young — only about my age , and he paints a lot of the walls in the house — you know , with felt pens and spray cans and that . |
10 | This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument . |
11 | A lot of the characters in the play have very trusting natures , and this invariably leads to their downfall . |
12 | Unfortunately , a lot of the people in the little club called ‘ New Zealand sailing ’ ca n't accept that . |
13 | Almost all attempts to improve the lot of the serfs in the previous two or three generations had failed because they depended on the gentry 's goodwill . |