Example sentences of "[adj] lot [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a helluva lot more people out there having soup than having sex — so where 's the soup SCENE ? ’ ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But the really bad apples in the seismic barrel , and a very sinister lot those are , too , are the so-called thermal hotspots , plumes or upswellings of molten lava that reach up to or through the earth 's crust , giving rise to volcanoes or earthquakes or both . |
| 3 | ‘ One of the things that is often said about the success of British athletics at the moment is that it hides an awful lot that 's wrong . |
| 4 | I mean , there 's an awful lot that goes on ! |
| 5 | It is now over a year since I last saw you and believe me Elsie it seems like an awful lot more time than that . |
| 6 | Yeah an awful lot more |
| 7 | Well we had er the business was quite good er we had er we could do , of course at the end of the war , we could have done with an awful lot more cars , but we could n't get them . |
| 8 | Of course , against England , purely in terms of the tackling , they were always going to find their expatriate , Dewi Morris , from scrum-half , an awful lot more of a handful than Rob Andrew . |
| 9 | It could do with an awful lot more trees all over it . |
| 10 | That 's an awful lot more is n't it ? |
| 11 | He did n't play an awful lot this year , no . |
| 12 | The P word was getting on my nerves an awful lot this afternoon ! . |
| 13 | What a solipsistic lot those Big Chillies were , and how you itched to slap them out of their self-obsession . |
| 14 | Do n't know we get away with it they want the whole lot bloody scrapping and the new lot all the rust ones , there 's hardly one decent is there ? |
| 15 | Otherwise they were a dour lot these rural East Anglians . |
| 16 | Do n't try and do the wh whole lot all in one go , well that 's simple George I happen to know my hundred and one times table , |
| 17 | Because from top to bottom it was all connected with iron and steel the whole lot all the way down . |
| 18 | Let us make the fourth choice — which actual apartments you 'll be staying in — and you 'll find yourself with a whole lot more holiday spending money into the bargain . |
| 19 | And while he watched , Firelight gave a great heave and a whole lot more of the little horse slid out , its neck and mane and withers and then its whole backside complete with tail , spilt out in a heap in the straw , ungainly legs in a pale tangle . |
| 20 | But then , the , Alex thinks there 's a whole lot more boys joining , joining the school . |
| 21 | Well I should think there 's probably a whole lot more there that we did n't move |
| 22 | As a chemist , is there anything that you would really like to know , something you 'd really like to discover , something that if you knew you could feel you could do a whole lot more chemistry ? |
| 23 | Jim , I 'd love to keep going here and ask you a whole lot more questions . |
| 24 | What is different in the Banbury situation erm is that fact that you are not only talking about one school and it 's education because Banbury School draws not only it 's own eleven to sixteen year old children , who have the option to go forward to the sixth form , but of course all the children that come from the Warriner School at Bloxham , all the children that come from Drayton School , and a certain number of the children who might come from the Roman Catholic Secondary School in Banbury , so there are a whole lot more people involved than just the actual children , and that 's what made Banbury a hybrid . |