Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [art] lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one of your responses would be to bring in the privatization card and put a lot of this out to tender ? |
| 2 | The content of the opinion in each case would have a spin-off effect on people who happen to love football and give a lot of time to watching , playing or training for it . |
| 3 | She went to shooting practice and scored three bullseyes in succession and felt a lot better . |
| 4 | She may find new capabilities in herself and her present machine , advanced technology does not make much difference to the finished result and costs a lot . |
| 5 | If it becomes bored , a young dog especially may try to gnaw at a seat and cause a lot of damage . |
| 6 | I know for a fact I 'm not cos all I 've done all week is sit on my bum and watch telly and eat a lot . |
| 7 | It has always been my belief that casuals were just beer-swilling animals with the intelligence of donkeys , but the letter you published was clearly written by someone who has enough intelligence to put his radically extremist views into practice and cause a lot of harm . |
| 8 | She warmed yesterdays bread and cooked three eggs and laid a tray and took the lot upstairs , meaning to return with coals for Mr Landor 's fire as soon as he was placated with the food . |
| 9 | He was well-known on the comedy club circuit and raised a lot of money for charity . |
| 10 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 11 | The mouse allows you to click the notes into position on the stave and saves a lot of keying time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was putting on an act and laughing a lot . ’ |
| 14 | They retired to the kitchen and unpacked the food , opened the cans of lager and carried the lot into the dining-room . |
| 15 | It is trial and error and depends a lot on the type of horse you are riding . |
| 16 | They feel you have to endure great anxiety and suffer a lot and of course while you 're doing that , you do n't get the work done . ’ |
| 17 | But manager Derek Brownbill explained : ‘ We rolled our sleeves up in the second half and showed a lot of character . |
| 18 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 19 | Among the looting and fighting a lot of the villagers had managed to maintain their traditional systems for support . |
| 20 | Hershelle Gibbs , who is a fine athlete and has a lot of cricketing potential . |
| 21 | But both are things we must be prepared to do on occasion , and both are preferable to staying at home and watching a lot of odious rubbish on television . |
| 22 | Creggan was watching the group of people coming along from the other direction and making a lot of noise . |
| 23 | I enjoyed this comparative freedom and spent a lot of time pacing around the cell . |
| 24 | But their offer of free financial health checks proved just the tonic and generated a lot of new business . |
| 25 | ‘ They take it to heart and put a lot of effort into it . ’ |
| 26 | I find the Automatic Linker and Rib Transfer Carriage really speed up my knitting and save a lot of shoulder and neckache . |
| 27 | She had a weak chest and needed a lot of attention , whereas I was robust and could be left to my own devices . |
| 28 | There are lots of fluids out there , they are there for the embalmer to increase his expertise and to help him make his cases better , the chemical companies give technical support and do a lot of research into their products . |
| 29 | I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’ |
| 30 | He is chancellor of Stirling University and spends a lot of time going around lecturing at universities and schools . |