Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a lot " in BNC.
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1 | So if you take the first one immediately before you go to bed , if your blood pressure does go down rather a lot , it does n't matter cos you 're lying down , you 'll |
2 | So perhaps a lot of the times but I would have maybe suggested that , that we could have done and presented that as part of the package . |
3 | W w where they w w once when they 'd been installed or was it thought that it a mistake had been made in obviously a lot of cash had been spent on them but erm , was it considered a mis a waste of money or ? |
4 | Finally , we 've got to bring the players back to earth a bit , but two absolute cracking games to look forward to in the next couple of weeks ; Oldham next week , probably the best footballing side in the second division , and away to Swindon the week after , so still a lot to look forward to although disappointment at going out of the Cup . |
5 | She paused and added thoughtfully , ‘ It 's strange , but although I 've stayed down here a lot I 've never met him , but perhaps that 's because his wife was an invalid and he devoted all his time to her . |
6 | but if they really catch them cos they 're down here a lot now because of er what 's going on underneath those arches |
7 | And the amount of it we get from India and Sri Lanka ha has gone down quite a lot . |
8 | Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart . |
9 | And on the M forty , between junctions four and five , that 's between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch , it 's down to two narrow lanes in both directions , and a contraflow system for a short stretch about midway between the two junctions , also that 's down to single line traffic at times , so that could slow you down quite a lot . |
10 | Of course there would be some non-contentious business , perhaps quite a lot ; but even then , there must also be the reservation that nothing should be disclosed by the one group to the other which might prejudice its case when the business was contentious . |
11 | So quite a lot of these you know do n't you . |
12 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
13 | So consequently a lot of stuff that ended up on record was the more soulful , slower stuff , but I have some places where I really get to stretch out on this record . |
14 | Most British people and publications I am acquainted with are quite proud of their command of the English language and engage in quite a lot of patting themselves on the back . |
15 | Yes , it 's just that quite right , we have n't got a fund , a major fund raising event now until July , unless anything else of , you know , smaller crops up and our two street collections we know will bring in quite a lot of money . |
16 | ‘ What about that Tommy Allen ? 'E 's bin comin' in quite a lot lately , ’ Fred remarked , looking surly . |
17 | ‘ I had thought so but recently he hinted at another asset he hoped to dispose of that would bring in quite a lot of money . |
18 | We could throw in quite a lot of er , extra manure . |
19 | They set it up deliberately so that we force ourselves to do more than any three men could do , and naturally quite a lot of the time we ca n't manage it . ’ |
20 | Well , we feel that there 's it 's obviously quite a lot of points that are , are very good in the report , but we really feel that it 's concentrated very much on the administration of pension schemes , rather than security and I think that whilst if everything that , everyone of his recommendations had been law , I think it would have made it more difficult for Maxwell , but I do n't think it would have made in impossible for Maxwell and I think that what th what we see the problem is , is that in many ways the , the Maxwell problem was brought about by two major , major factors I think . |
21 | It did hold us up I mean we would have been down there a lot quicker if we had n't had |
22 | I think speaking as another psychiatrist er the medical profession do have to look very carefully and perhaps how a lot of the damage has been done er with how women perceive whether they can ask for help or not because a lot of the women here have raised been giving tranquillizers and my colleague across there has pointed out that tranquillizers are not an appropriate way of treating depression . |
23 | ‘ Mick and Carla have been together quite a lot . |
24 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
25 | It showed not only a lot of racism and sexist vanity on the part of the psychiatrist but ignorance about the way of life of his patient . |
26 | The cliché image of London clubs being full of government officials muttering Top Secrets over the cold steak-and-kidney pie had , Maxim was coming to see not only a lot of truth but also a lot of sense . |
27 | ‘ We 're promoting real European unity , ’ Jim continues , ‘ not just a lot of countries having the same currency . ’ |
28 | For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained . |
29 | There 's not really a lot of difference though is there between |
30 | At first the main change was that he began to give away quite a lot of money , mainly to Worcestershire charities . |