Example sentences of "awful lot [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Well , we 've had an awful lot of damage to the church .
2 He said : ‘ We have put an awful lot of money into the site .
3 Four fi five and a quarter tax free , you 've got to put an awful lot of money in the building society to get that sort of return have n't you ?
4 Human beings as we know are sexually dimorphic and tha that figure seems to fit the er the , the pattern , but erm women have a lot of characteristics that are peculiar to them , like for example erm more youthful looks , women will retain more youthful looks longer than men do and it is normally regarded as important and a lot of women spend an awful lot of money in the modern society on trying to remain erm looking er looking youthful .
5 It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers .
6 erm An awful lot of elements in the equation are fixed already .
7 ‘ There is an awful lot of software for the 390 — but it is all in bits and pieces ’ Parker claims , and so as an interim step IBM will be pulling all the pieces together into a proper server package .
8 like the jaguar really be able to go on that long given er that er there 's an awful lot of errors in the Gulf apart from anything else .
9 ‘ Tony , ’ he said , ‘ I 've made an awful lot of cash from the Human League .
10 Erm as far as the C C Q itself was concerned you , you gave an awful lot of information about the sort of things you were gon na look for when Martin said about , you know , what 's in it and it 's , it 's pretty big and what have you you mentioned a lot of subjects or a lot of technical jargon which may or may not have meant anything to the client rather than just say well , you know , some of it wo n't , may well not apply to you .
11 ‘ There would need to be an awful lot of call-offs before the five players untried at this level found themselves on the field at the same time , though , ’ said the coach .
12 There are an awful lot of children in the United Kingdom in fact who are living in the sort of poverty and who 's parents are living in the sort of poverty which in a rich country like our own , should not be tolerated .
13 That 's an awful lot of training down the drain . ’
14 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
15 ‘ 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 . ’
16 You may not have noticed , but there 's an awful lot of bachelors in the valley .
17 Certain ones of them , for instance the Brazilians may not be taking an awful lot of notice , or may not apparently be taking an awful lot of notice at the moment , but I think the pressure is on , and that things are changing , and more and more countries are going towards policies that will in fact support , sustained yield production and timber from the forests , and the reservation of the forests for that purpose , erm I mean in many countries have a policy where they just let tribal institutes use the raw material , and the forest is not reserved , and it 's not looked after .
18 Now what we do erm and this takes an awful lot of workload from the sales consultant .
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