Example sentences of "[verb] [art] lot [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was involved in competitive sports before , aiming from the start at tournaments and championships places a lot of pressure on the patient , and it may lead to bitter frustration when he can not reach his previous standards as quickly as he might hope . |
| 2 | He has a lot of time on his hands . |
| 3 | WITH your ruler Mars in this area of your chart until April 27 you can expect a lot of activity on the home front . |
| 4 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 5 | You can do much of the remaining internal work yourself , not only saving a lot of money on labour charges , but a considerable sum in VAT at the current rate of 17.5% . |
| 6 | This makes the statement easier for your customer to understand and reconcile and will help you be paid faster , as well as saving a lot of time on queries . |
| 7 | But IBM France , Spain and Italy have done a lot of work on the technology . |
| 8 | Hitachi says it has already done a lot of work on the application of image recognition techniques , including the development of a method of automatic Table of Contents generation , which uses the detection of changes in colour distribution to distinguish different frames , thus making possible the automatic analysis of camera work . |
| 9 | I have done a lot of work on black holes , and it would all be wasted if it turned out that black holes do not exist . |
| 10 | Gary Wills says they 've done a lot of work on the swing and all he does now is aim the golf club him . |
| 11 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 12 | But in the past 10 years physiological and pharmacological laboratories around the world have done a lot of research on acupuncture . |
| 13 | I 've done a lot of homework on what lies ahead . |
| 14 | In the early periods player A's actions reveal a lot of information on its type , so it is quite credible for them to prefer to imitate the z = 0 type by reducing the absolute value of . |
| 15 | Certainly , measures of ‘ network strength ’ like the one Milroy uses put a lot of emphasis on paid work alongside other community members . |
| 16 | Erm now if you lose one of those people cos we we put a lot of emphasis on you know , high quality training , erm then that money is just wasted . |
| 17 | Well then if you put a lot of bark on it and with vegetables , so they want fertilizer |
| 18 | Birds of prey cause a lot of argument on a walk . |
| 19 | You 've made a lot of progress on that . |
| 20 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 21 | Yeah well I 'll see what cash I 've got left as well cos I have n't got a lot of money on me . |
| 22 | How do you tip him out when he 's got a lot of ash on him ? |
| 23 | Technology director of ICL operations Steve Sowery says the company spent a lot of time and will spend a lot of money on positioning the new ICL range . |
| 24 | Many countries do spend a lot of money on military arsenals so that they can invade and terrorise other countries . |
| 25 | The highest my mum goes is forty pounds cos she does n't think she should spend a lot of money on a pair of trainers that wo n't last . |
| 26 | When you 're doing that you can actually spend a lot of time on pictures . |
| 27 | You do spend a lot of time on the radio telephone . |
| 28 | This is difficult stuff I 'm not gon na spend a lot of time on this because it 's covered on various other courses as well . |
| 29 | And to be honest I said it was n't worth wasting a lot of time on them . |
| 30 | Gloria ( Perez ) , his girlfriend , wins a lot of money on a gameshow she 's spent her whole life practising for , but Billy bets it all on a basketball game . |