Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] lot of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 2 | Compound curves can either be produced with a spokeshave or , in our case , on the spindle moulder with the help of a lot of jigs . |
| 3 | 'Cos , yeah , it 's just vegetables we keep because erm , or if my mother makes sort of a lot of curries or things . |
| 4 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 5 | ‘ Sunil waxes eloquent on the desire of a lot of men in his community to keep their wives in perfect ignorance . ’ |
| 6 | Gerald Thomas believes this was not so much his great erudition , ‘ but Ken 's supernatural knowledge of a lot of things ’ . |
| 7 | Lynda Moss agrees : ‘ 1,1,1-trichloroethane rarely crops up in published syntheses — a heck of a lot of syntheses use methylene chloride [ dichloromethane ] however ’ . |
| 8 | The Acousticube might be small but it sports a heck of a lot of knobs and sockets . |
| 9 | This is the typical career pattern of a lot of agents . |
| 10 | Although there was a desperation at first , everyone trying to get off the dole queue , there was also a sense that it was the start of a lot of careers , a big break . |
| 11 | The driving system , then , is crucial in making a program that will be effective in the hands of a lot of teachers . |
| 12 | The Germans have counter attacked and inflicted a hell of a lot of casualties on the Black Watch . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 've one hell of a lot of guts , I 'll say that for you , Paige Emerson , ’ he said , reaching out to brush the knuckles of one hand gently across her cheek . |
| 14 | There 's no given word that UFOs and aliens exist , but if you read between the lines , a hell of a lot of things have been taken away and readjusted . |
| 15 | I 'm still not sure whether it was right or wrong , but it certainly got the reaction that was necessary that people appreciated that she was there , she was the Minister for Employment , and indeed she was causing a hell of a lot of problems for G M B members . |
| 16 | Otherwise if they sit there and be quiet you lose a hell of a lot of ideas from that one person . |
| 17 | I remember thinking that there seemed to be one hell of a lot of buttons on the average Mother Christmas costume . |
| 18 | Erm the next session is rather hard work for you cos it 's very much sort of listening and absorbing a hell of a lot of facts , but I trust you will bear with me . |
| 19 | She lived in a top flat ‘ up a hell of a lot of stairs , and she used to have a parrot on top of the stairs . ’ |
| 20 | Leila Williams ( a former beauty queen ) and Chris Trace were its virgin presenters , the show a seven-week experiment that caught on and gave the world John Noakes ' arse , the most famous shitting elephant ever , many an expedition to Ceylon , sticky-backed plastic , ‘ soldier dolls ’ , umpteen dogs , Sarah Greene ( cheers ) and a hell of a lot of jeeps paid for by old forks and ring-pulls . |
| 21 | But it 's still a hell of a lot of presents ! |
| 22 | There are a hell of a lot of myths perpetrated in this industry . |
| 23 | To get ‘ UF Orb ’ to Number One in the albums chart , even in these days of meagre sales , means you 're shipping a hell of a lot of units . |
| 24 | He was on the fringe of a lot of things and hopefully will soon be back playing . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah , you 've a lot of a lot of capers still to get up |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | So if you have a lot of pr a lot of pressure , a lot of a lot of volts |
| 28 | When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ? |
| 29 | Erm I myself came out a first floor window erm a lot of a lot of entrances had already been blocked by the tanks |
| 30 | The earlier model for settlement development was based on the idea of a lot of villages established by Anglo-Saxon settlers clearing the land and creating open , common fields . |