Example sentences of "lot [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight individuals living and working together in the confines of a ninety feet steel hull for three months and still parting as friends at the end of the trip says a lot for compatibility of the cutter crews . |
| 2 | The fact that one of the most outstanding cricketers of all time was Colin Bland , it says a lot about cricket as an athletic and gripping sport . |
| 3 | The Drowners says quite a lot about Suede as a concept in that it showcases the way we work rhythms into a song , the aggressive bite of the guitar lines , the drawled vocals and the kind of things it talks about . ’ |
| 4 | He had been in trawlers and , when he found I was interested , told me a lot about fishing off Iceland and Spitzbergen . |
| 5 | The investigation was a lot of nonsense at the end . ’ |
| 6 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 7 | It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press . |
| 8 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 9 | and that er , you know , has lead to a lot of misery in some cases , er , also I mean there 's question of viability of our own scheme and I er , think er you know , er there are a number of questions which I as a lay-man would like to be , you know , I think the seminar is probably the right to do that . |
| 10 | He does he does ma a lot of manufacture for Lynwoods . |
| 11 | They chopped a lot of cable into one inch pieces you see and just gave a bit of this out . |
| 12 | Twenty-fifth August — a lot of excitement around the farm . |
| 13 | There were sirens along the road below and a lot of excitement around the stationary train . |
| 14 | On the assumption that the equipment a hundred years ago was not as efficient at finding gold as today 's modern machinery , he hired some plant and employed a geologist and found a lot of gold in those old spoil heaps — just at the time gold rose in value on the world markets . |
| 15 | Given that it is unobtrusive though , and it is possible to obtain a very concise response to a query , rather than having to read through quite a lot of text before finding the required information , it will at the very least save some time . |
| 16 | Siward said , ‘ I can see the Normans already in line , and a lot of foot behind the banners and awnings . ’ |
| 17 | He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There 's been a lot of damage to the ground here . |
| 19 | A full survey by Southern Science has revealed that there is a lot of damage to the pond lining and a dangerously deep sediment in the centre which contained a few dead fish and some frog spawn , although there is very little oxygen left in the pond . |
| 20 | If we used tractors on here continually pulling out timber , it would cause a lot of damage to the ground structure and would reduce the number of flowers . |
| 21 | Well , we 've had an awful lot of damage to the church . |
| 22 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 23 | The bombardment destroyed our first system , of course , and there seem to have been a lot of gas shells landing amongst our gunners — those that were n't killed — and they say the Hun did a lot of damage with his trench mortars and those awful Minenwerfers . |
| 24 | Erm as you can see it 's er had quite a lot of damage on it since we actually came back but er it 's been a very very trustworthy er propeller and engine . |
| 25 | Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage . |
| 26 | That 's going to do a lot of damage in a soup bowl the size of Wembley stadium , I do n't think . |
| 27 | Aristotle called the kings ‘ hereditary generals ’ and an incompetent or even average king could do a lot of damage in a short while — like Kleombrotos who lost the decisive battle of Leuktra in 371 but was not catastrophically inept . |
| 28 | Luis Vargas , an Archuar Indian , said that Indians no longer wanted British Gas on their land and were no longer prepared to negotiate with the company , " British Gas has done a lot of damage in our forest " he said . |
| 29 | He would not listen to her instructions and caused a lot of damage by climbing on furniture and shelves , banging things with his toys , knocking down displays in shops , and so on . |
| 30 | WC apps : 2 Mike Smith , the former manager of Wales and Egypt , takes a lot of credit for giving the Egyptians the impetus to reach the finals for the first time . |