Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] a lot " in BNC.

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1 But since reorganization it 's become much more diverse and we 're expected to do a lot more different things . ’
2 ‘ You 're going to need a lot of looking after , Len , ’ said David quietly .
3 You 're going to see a lot of this stained glass window over the coming weeks .
4 ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’
5 Is it because they 're going to incorporate a lot of high tech treatments ?
6 Now the friends are planning a reunion when Mr Turner visits Darlington in March : ‘ We 're going to talk a lot , swing the lamp and take some grog , ’ he said .
7 So we 're going to talk a lot about repackaging .
8 What will be on their mind is first of all the Prison Authorities are going to isolate them , they 're going to be in solitary confinement for a very long time — six months , maybe a year , that 's been the pattern — they 're going to lose a lot of remission , but they also know they 're going to face criminal charges .
9 It 's a great service and I 'm sure we 're going to do a lot of good for a lot of women , ’ says Amanda Ursell , a trained nutritionist on our panel .
10 We 're going to do a lot for education .
11 We 're going to cover press releases , a very important way of feeding information into the media generally , and there I 'm glad to say you 're going to do a lot of the work — you 've already been primed to do your homework , I hope you have — and you 're going to do work from group and we 're going to work with you to see whether we can sharpen up some of these press releases .
12 Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear .
13 erm I go along with what erm Simon said about Paul , I 'm I thought at one time that they would go for Cox and him , to be perfectly honest , he 's absolutely right on what he said , and I 'm sure they 're relying on the fact that I believe Paul is going to be a home track and they 're going to pick a lot points up at home .
14 If it 's erm if it 's a school teacher as in primary schools where they 're going to teach a lot across a range of subjects , one of the new measures I think is going to help and that is the introduction of the sixth subject , erm Bachelor of Education Degree , because maths , English and science will be the core three subjects and the other three subjects will be of choice , so there 's an opportunity there for one of those subjects to be religious education and it will be taught in greater depth to those teachers .
15 It always seems to me that you 've got a set of results , and if you come to write them up , and you know they 're obviously wrong , you 're going to get a lot more marks if you put down the right values — or what should be the right values — so you end up fiddling things eventually .
16 Then you 're going to get a lot of the marks for it , because they can show
17 Erm so you 're going to get a lot of kind of landlord tenant type problems .
18 Yes but you 're getting at a you 're going to get a lot of the baddies who 've missed it , you are getting a lot of the baddies now ,
19 You 're going to hear a lot more about her — and you may not like a lot of what you hear .
20 But I remember I was on the way into Howard 's bungalow , and Bogie was coming out , having just seen my screen test , and he said , ‘ We 're going to have a lot of fun together . ’
21 No but would it do to , I mean you 're going to have a lot of the stuff that we chopped off
22 We 're going to make a lot of effort to ensure the noise is kept to as low a level as possible .
23 but if you 're going to pay a lot of money for your take away
24 and he 's Ron you 're going to experience a lot of things that you 're not going be happy about he says but I 'll let you find out for yourself .
25 And as we believe that erm the earth and the sun were formed at the same time , so we 're starting to know a lot more about the original material from which the sun and the earth were formed , and here we find that it 's just full of prebiotic molecules which we did not know beforehand and therefore puts a different perspective on what we think the earth 's early atmosphere might have been .
26 If you 're planning to do a lot of weaving , the weaving arm is a useful extra even if you do have built-in weaving brushes on your machine .
27 If you are going to spend a lot of money advertising nationally , or if you are very inexperienced , you might like to enlist the help of an advertising agency .
28 " We are going to see a lot more casualties in the actual water and on the seabed " .
29 This offers more options and would be worth considering if you are going to do a lot of editing .
30 ‘ If you are going to be in senior job you are going to put a lot of time in so you give up your social life a bit perhaps .
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