Example sentences of "lot of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And as you can see , even after three print I 've managed to lift off quite a lot of scum from the surface . |
| 32 | But having spent all his career in a family business , Sir Adrian has inevitably given a lot of thought to the responsibility a company should have for the community in which it operates . |
| 33 | With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead ! |
| 34 | Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials . |
| 35 | I 've put so many features on this , but also put a lot of thought into the layout , so it 's easy to see what switch does what . |
| 36 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |
| 37 | There 's a lot of capacity in the world market and we 've had trouble competing against that |
| 38 | Rabbits do n't come out much any more because recently there have been a lot of deer in the way . |
| 39 | There has been quite a lot of speculation on the matter in professional circles . ’ |
| 40 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 41 | Luckily I knew how many there were of them ( 53 if I remember correctly ) so I could count them out again — something which involved a lot of shaking of the shell into a bucket of tank water . |
| 42 | First of July — there is a lot of activity on the road leading to the village but still no sign of a German attack or , more important , an Allied breakout . |
| 43 | WITH your ruler Mars in this area of your chart until April 27 you can expect a lot of activity on the home front . |
| 44 | A lot of activity on the ceiling , too … as Ninereeds hovered , thumping the air with his wings , Twoflower peered up at the shapes of roosting beasts and tiny men-shaped dots that were somehow walking upside down . |
| 45 | ‘ There is still a lot of activity under the surface , ’ said a corporate finance director at an American bank . |
| 46 | There was a lot of activity in the area of the farm buildings , people dashing about even though the farm was being heavily mortared . |
| 47 | There was a lot of activity around the orchard as we arrived back at H.Q The sniping had increased and a mortar attack seemed to be under way . |
| 48 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 49 | It also gives especial aid to poorer areas that lost a lot of income in the changeover . |
| 50 | I ran into a lot of sceptics on the North Shore . |
| 51 | These places on a water that attract casual anglers and , therefore , receive a lot of bait during the daytime often fish well after nightfall . |
| 52 | This requires a lot of persistence by the parent particularly when the child is not interested in food . |
| 53 | The practical result would be substantially reduced maximum output current , and a lot of ripple on the d.c. output . |
| 54 | There were a lot of lorries at the side of the road . |
| 55 | But even I used to get a lot of hassle with the Black girls who 'd go , ‘ Ooh , you white man lover , you pagan ! ’ and all these kinds of things , and I 'd go , ‘ Yes , I know that , I love it . ’ |
| 56 | There 's a lot of conservatism in the vocal world here , and they sometimes come to performances to compare if it 's louder or softer ; I like big voices and I 'm trying to collect every rich voice I can , does n't matter if it 's in Novosibirsk where we heard Gorchakova , but what I 'm saying is that it has to be a complex , not just a voice and something else , or not just actor and a bit of voice . ’ |
| 57 | He wins a lot of ball in the line-outs and as such is a useful character to have at top level , in tandem with a big no.8 . |
| 58 | ‘ There are a lot of blanks in the Thirties where we do n't know a great deal about it and there was a period just after the war from 1947 through to the middle Fifties — that 's another gap . |
| 59 | ‘ You have a lot of clothes in the next room . |
| 60 | Well I would say that there has been a lot of changes since the new Home Office guide lines were issued in nineteen eighty five |