Example sentences of "be a lot [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could be a lot of reasons . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you just have to have a flexible mind , ’ said Masklin , knowing even as he said the words that this probably was n't going to be a lot of help . |
| 3 | Like the woman said there , there seems to be a lot of help for people who are on drugs , and who then want to come off them , but the after-care service seems to be you know , a lot erm , there 's not a lot help for the people , they get the help to come off the drugs and then they 're put back into the society that they are from and they seem to still have that pressure to go back to where they were previously . |
| 4 | In the evening there seemed to be a lot of noise and excitement downstairs . |
| 5 | So , there might be a lot of doctors who would do . |
| 6 | And there 'll be a lot of families in the middle , where they 're not sure whether they fall in one category or the other , but they dislike having to take their cap in hand and go ask for another subsidy . |
| 7 | There seemed to be a lot of laughter and some mild horseplay . |
| 8 | Saying how there 's gon na be a lot of roads with a poll tax to pay . |
| 9 | There may be a lot of anxiety , guilt , anger , or desperation locked away and although this is often painful to expose , therapeutic progress is unlikely to be made until openness is achieved . |
| 10 | The solution would be a rate on the realised margin of profit , and even then 15% can be a lot of money , being only part of the burden the State has imposed on the tax-payer . |
| 11 | Before I left , he added : " There would n't be a lot of money in it , my boy . " |
| 12 | There will be a lot of money … ’ |
| 13 | And and and in the sort of business that a lot of M Ps , or people that become M Ps , and the sort of Mm er way they have to l It may not be a lot of money , and maybe they are entitled to some more . |
| 14 | That was all very well but there were going to be a lot of things to pay . |
| 15 | Carter USM 's idiot jukebox-come-end of the pier cabaret might be a lot of things — but it 's hardly progress . |
| 16 | The report concludes that London is likely to experience a longer hangover from the late 1980s boom than the rest of the country ; economists ' forecasts that new jobs in the capital during the 1990s will only grow by 48,000 ( 4.9% ) means that there will still be a lot of space available , and office tenants should be the beneficiaries . |
| 17 | Well , there 's not gon na be a lot of space is there ? |
| 18 | And I believe there 's going to be a lot of killings as there have been killings . |
| 19 | There must be a lot of documentation . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose it shows there must be a lot of managers or ex-players who are looking for work . ’ |
| 21 | He adds that while the bestv rowers are away practising for the Olympics this year there will still be a lot of competition and younger rowers will get the chance to be at Henley . |
| 22 | There may seem to be a lot of garlic involved here , but do n't let that put you off — this country-style stew is based on a Menorcan recipe and the traditional slow cooking gives the dish a sweet , mellow flavour . |
| 23 | There used to be a lot of work . |
| 24 | ‘ That must be a lot of work for your mother , ’ McLeish said , hopefully , and got another level , distantly amused look . |
| 25 | I would quite like to include historical information about many of the places of interest along the route , but that would be a lot of work for £75 and I imagine the Council already has plenty of material which could be easily incorporated . |
| 26 | I think it 'd be a LOT of work to run one … unless you could get those involved to keep track of thier own scores & just send them to you for ‘ validation ’ & keeping the table upto date . |
| 27 | ‘ The main damage was at the back , to dressing rooms , for example , and there will still be a lot of work to do by the time December arrives . ’ |
| 28 | He says his new post will not be a quiet one and expects there will be a lot of work to be done in the parish , which also covers the villages of Cockfield , Woodland and Butterknowle . |
| 29 | ‘ However , for some reason , probably because of the changing situation in central and eastern Europe , there still appears to be a lot of life in the Cold War spy genre . |
| 30 | There seemed to be a lot of faces I had not noticed in the original team . |