Example sentences of "a lot of [n mass] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | student night , having a lot of staff on , it 's pointless having ah , I mean , the bouncers in that situation . |
| 2 | ‘ We do have a lot of data on that banking colossus . |
| 3 | Sharing a cottage with a lot of people on a hill-walking holiday is a revelation . |
| 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 | It is the summer and there are a lot of people on holiday . |
| 6 | But I mean it was it that we were taken to first , and I mean thee was a lot of people on it and I mean it had obviously saved a lot of lives . |
| 7 | Pam , most of the morning papers of course , have had er , glowing tributes , quite rightly so , to Danny Blanchflower , we 've had a lot of people on this morning saying that we 'll never see his like again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We normally expect to see a lot of people on a Friday but they 're just not coming through the doors |
| 11 | Because there were a lot of people on the staff at that time . |
| 12 | But there 's a lot of people on a Saturday you know |