Example sentences of "a lot [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem to talk quite a lot up high in the in their nasal passages . |
| 2 | It 'd been more than half a year since the Long Drive , and she 'd never taken much notice of mechanical things , but she could n't help thinking the old lorry cab had been a lot less crowded . |
| 3 | But the point remains : Mrs Thatcher was a lot less Arabist than the Foreign Office . |
| 4 | And although some of them were a lot less well-off than they had been , they still seemed to get away with most things , feeling not the least need to prove themselves , she supposed , like herself and Lizzie Braithwaite , and Maria Colclough , and Ethel Lord . |
| 5 | This may or may not be desirable : administrators sometimes act more quickly than lawyers and judges ( they are certainly a lot less expensive ) , but they are always vulnerable to regulatory capture and they can make bad decisions if they are poorly funded and undermanned ( for some observations on this issue , see Areeda , 1992 . ) |
| 6 | It 's all a lot less frail now . |
| 7 | She was smoking a small cigar and sported a face that was a lot less elegant than the hat . |
| 8 | Egypt , Malaysia and Thailand also look a lot less poor on a PPP basis . |
| 9 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 10 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 11 | Its relatively light weight ( 1.9kg/4lb ) makes drilling above shoulder height a lot less tiring than with the normal electropneumatic hammer drills which you may hire . |
| 12 | Election ‘ 92 : ‘ A lot less tiring than the average day in Downing Street ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's been a lot less tiring than the average day in Downing Street , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 14 | The kitchen seemed a lot less alive without him . |
| 15 | THE GASH sustained by Carroll House after he proved himself a cut above the rest of Europe in Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe looked a lot less serious than had been feared when Britain 's new equine hero was examined on his return to Newmarket yesterday , writes John Karter . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd be a lot less hopeless if you were thinking straight , ’ Kathy advised . |
| 17 | Software for Free evaluates the very best in low cost software making the task of choosing a lot less frustrating and time consuming , and by effectively cutting down the number of programs you need to look at it might even save you some money . |
| 18 | The second half of the poem is a lot less straightforward and more difficult to understand . |
| 19 | You 're a lot less stressful , you get to the end of your journey a lot fresher . |
| 20 | The shadow employment secretary Frank Dobson said : ‘ It is unfair to expect vital people like nurses and teachers to accept a pay settlement less than the rate of inflation , a lot less then settlements outside , and less than what the Government are likely to give the judges . ’ |
| 21 | It only describes what happens around us — which is frankly a lot less impressive . |
| 22 | It must be a lot less wonderful for the current Duke Of Marlborough . |
| 23 | Massive coverage may look good but it is a lot less valuable if it appears in media which are not seen by your ultimate target audience . |
| 24 | At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did . |
| 25 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 26 | ‘ He 's got a teacher bossing him around who 's about four years older than he is , if that , and a lot less self-confident , but holding all the aces . |
| 27 | As an ‘ album ’ , this small-scale , big-hearted seven-song companion is a lot less weird and grimy than last year 's ‘ Warning The Public ’ , but an essential thing nonetheless . |
| 28 | At that , Julius turned back to face her , and she saw that his features were a lot less calm than his voice . |
| 29 | And a temperament a lot less volatile than Arthur 's could easily come to believe this was exactly what was happening . |
| 30 | He found the meter and turned on the mains , and then switched the lights on after closing the drapes — it would look a lot less suspicious than the occasional flicker of torchlight across the glass . |