Example sentences of "lot of [n mass] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rabbits do n't come out much any more because recently there have been a lot of deer in the way . |
| 2 | We both really enjoyed this old house in the Kimbolton Road , for as well as us there were quite a lot of folk from the BBC . |
| 3 | And I think a lot of people outside the area , perhaps do not accept it . |
| 4 | A Touche Ross spokeswoman later confessed that , although some of the team had managed a practice run the week before , ‘ when it came to the day , a lot of people on the boat had never rowed before ’ . |
| 5 | My experience is that a lot of people on the left are actually in extreme distress from unresolved family traumas or interclass traumas , or the transition from non-disabled to disabled , and so on . |
| 6 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 7 | Because there were a lot of people on the staff at that time . |
| 8 | Just after my birthday in September 1922 , we came out from afternoon school on a Tuesday and , on reaching the corner of St. Martin 's Church Street , saw quite a lot of people at the bottom of St. Ann 's Street . |
| 9 | Last night there were a lot of people at the gig who were here the first time around and they can relate to what we 're doing . |
| 10 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 11 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 12 | But there 'll be a lot of people after the jobs . |
| 13 | For example , we used to get a lot of people from the printers but you knew them . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew a lot of people from the club because their ‘ B ’ team competed against Middlesbrough in the Northern League . |
| 15 | Canadian Pacific Railways and he was able to take a lot of people from the place he was born in out to Canada . |
| 16 | ‘ The sons , Kevin and Ian , will be the scapegoats , but there are an awful lot of people in the City who should be searching their consciences . ’ |
| 17 | The answer might be ‘ Yes ’ — but only if the market research has shown that a lot of people in the area would buy fish and chips . |
| 18 | And a lot of people in the States still think I am black , because of it . |
| 19 | There will be a lot of people in the House of Lords who will be saying to the Queen ‘ stand your ground ’ . |
| 20 | By the time it had found it , a lot of people in the old movies and new news business were shouting very angrily at one another down telephones , and some of them were feverishly trying to give it new instructions . |
| 21 | Like a lot of people in the sort of society we live in , you feel very isolated from everything around you and you do n't know the neighbours and you are only barely on speaking terms with the shopkeeper . |
| 22 | Newtown , Pennsylvania-based graphics chip maker Tseng Labs Inc says it is in discussions that might lead to it entering the business of development and production of audio chips : ‘ We 're talking to a lot of people in the sound area , both engineers and companies — because we do n't have any basic sound technology , we 're looking to acquire that either through people or maybe an acquisition , ’ Tseng vice-chairman Jack Gibbons explained to Reuter . |
| 23 | ‘ You obviously know a lot of people in the trade . ’ |
| 24 | And did you get to know a lot of people in the obvious well do you still know a lot of people in the area . |
| 25 | And did you get to know a lot of people in the obvious well do you still know a lot of people in the area . |
| 26 | Daddy knows quite a lot of people in the cinema . |
| 27 | A lot of people in the road looked at her . |
| 28 | Er it 's not like if you had a lot of people in the flats who were all working up at for example , you 'd have a lot more kind of community spirit going , and a lot , and a lot more common erm feeling , I think , between people . |
| 29 | I feel that very strongly , I mean a lot of people have said , a lot of people in the flats have said , well I do n't want to move out of the area , I do n't like living in the flats , but I do n't want to move out of the . |
| 30 | ‘ There 'll be a lot of people in the streets , so I think that you 'll be all right . |