Example sentences of "[vb -s] a lot [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he causes a lot of problems for the opposition . |
| 2 | If they 're not very careful , the family will lose out every time and that causes a lot of problems in our society . |
| 3 | What I do n't wa , I know it 's handy sometimes you think , ah that covers a lot of things for me and you may have come across something yourself I 'll the there is a key , there should be a key to those things in my cupboard , those lifelines things not the same as cha , I 've got all sorts of ideas that you might pick out and say right we can use that as a lesson you might even just say well sod copyright I 'm gon na photocopy that and I 'll use it ! |
| 4 | It contains a lot of questionnaires for which there are no answers and with not much guidance on what to do with the answers once you have filled in the pages . |
| 5 | Ah , so the the child 's mind is uncluttered , it 's more easily able to erm , observe things , take in things , learn things , and has a lot of advantages over us older , us adults . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , he 's a businessman but he has a lot of dealings in the City . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , he made the initial call for me , as he has a lot of contacts at the station because of his job . ’ |
| 8 | Marie , 25 , from Telford in Shropshire has a lot of problems at the moment , and needs a good friend . |
| 9 | This complexity arises simply because a typical molecule has a lot of electrons in different energy levels , together with a large number of unoccupied levels , and excitation can occur from each of the occupied levels to many or all of the unoccupied levels . |
| 10 | Now I think it says a lot for teachers as a profession that I think many of them are in fact prepared to have a go at this . |
| 11 | The benefits of gardening as a hobby are wide-ranging : it is satisfying as a pastime with a visible end-product , and it offers a lot of opportunities for meeting like-minded people in a pleasant environment . |
| 12 | ‘ The police are very much in favour of biking at Brick Kiln because it takes a lot of lads off the streets . ’ |
| 13 | P.B. This overlaps a lot of areas in school that other people are doing . |
| 14 | He imposed this religion on them which they did n't want and Freud thinks this explains a lot of things like the story of the golden carving , how Moses comes down |
| 15 | It 's been good for me to sweat and toil — like a long therapy session ; honest manual work puts a lot of things in perspective . |
| 16 | ‘ Some of these ladies may never have taken an exam in their lives , ’ says Sue , ‘ and getting the certificate does a lot in terms of confidence building . |
| 17 | Pantomime brings a lot of problems with the little children , especially with the toilets . |
| 18 | That makes a lot of horses in Leicestershire very happy |
| 19 | I think it makes a lot of demands on the teacher . |
| 20 | I think it makes a lot of demands upon the teacher . |
| 21 | Keith makes a lot of entries in his Filofax in a private code . |
| 22 | She knows a lot of men like that and has heard of more , but it does not reconcile her to having one herself . |
| 23 | There was a long pause before he spoke : ‘ The game is proving exceedingly popular Miss N'Grabbit — it provides a lot of thrills for young people . |