Example sentences of "[art] lot of [noun sg] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 SINEAD O'Connor came in for a lot of flack when she tore the picture of the Pope on American television but by selling her home for charity she has put her money where her mouth is .
2 Our beamy Bénéteau made a lot of noise as she slammed down into the troughs before climbing the next steep wave .
3 I remember being podgy , no make-up , an unsmart lady but I made a lot of noise and he seemed to like that . ’
4 Erm our view was that there are erm problems associated with er an inner relief road and one of one of those problems was the amount of traffic that would pass through End at Knaresborough , there was a lot of concern as we spelt out to members in our er committee report that erm traffic erm along Forest Lane Head towards Knaresborough along the A existing A fifty nine corridor , would actually increase over the do nothing situation .
5 Does it not make a lot of sense because it rings true to our experience ?
6 You may need a lot of confidence a lot of support and you might even need some help looking after your children if they 're quite young .
7 It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities .
8 erm he would get , he would get a lot of support because it is , it can be read as r as being restorationist but
9 I think what we would now say is that of course women are extremely competent programme-makers , but there is n't a lot of evidence that they want to cover different topics .
10 Certainly there is a lot of evidence that we have senses other than the ‘ official ’ six .
11 There is rather a lot of evidence that what laymen especially valued was the propitiatory function with God of beautiful worship , with splendid chants , vestments woven by the most skilful women , and lavish expenditure of gold on the book covers seen in church and on the altar crosses .
12 It 's a very distressing erm syndrome for many women and er there 's quite a lot of evidence that it 's hormonally linked and most women suffer from it in one way or another .
13 ‘ It brought me a lot of luck and I hope it brings her just as much . ’
14 Well our pits there 's a lot of water but it 's , it 's mostly body sweat and s I do get some water off a , a machine that I drive .
15 And churning and the carrying water for er for to for for the household and needed a lot of water when you were churning to wash the the butter properly .
16 fruit and she eats a lot of salad cos she loves salad you know
17 But he 's had a lot of space and he 's by and large used it very very well .
18 And I have a job which involves quite a lot of travel so I am not too restricted about where I live .
19 Jimmy had a lot of flair but it did n't help him win . ’
20 But John Morgan says : ‘ Dumenil may have put forward some thoughts that might help unit holders , but it needs a lot of thought before it turns into a proposal .
21 But John Morgan says : ‘ Dumenil may have put forward some thoughts that might help unit holders , but it needs a lot of thought before it turns into a proposal .
22 I did n't give this observation a lot of thought until my father 's death left me with no one else to whom I could turn .
23 They 're they you they 're all worked you know sandpapered and polished that 's rough , what they call rough work and then you gradually go onto the maybe staining and the just quite a lot of oak and there 's quite a lot of mahogany and walnut .
24 and I do n't want to , I do n't want to get involved with a lot of money that we 'd have to outlay for upkeep until we 've gone into it thoroughly .
25 ‘ We have n't a lot of money so it 's great to get recognition . ’
26 ‘ When Boon began , I felt guilty about earning a lot of money so I became a soft touch for begging letters and charity appeals , ’ he said .
27 They do not necessarily have a lot of money but they do expect good value and a broad service .
28 It seems a lot of money but it 's not to the man who 's prepared to pay it
29 Plenty of people are making a lot of money but it 's not me .
30 One gravedigger said : ‘ A £30 a week drop from our top line is a lot of money when we only get £240 before tax . ’
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