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

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1 You 'll have a lot of a headache by the time I 've finished .
2 No , if they bid for the franchise , then , and get it , obviously that franchise runs for the period , and by the way , a lot of the criticisms in the film , I think were based on a misunderstanding that all the franchises are going to be short , they 're not , those where there 's a substantial investment going in can be quite a bit longer
3 A lot of the motivation for the lyrics is the nastier side of my mental make-up anyway .
4 So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff .
5 The Treasury 's once-formidable forecasting record has taken some knocks of late , so a lot of the predictions in the budget have been carefully pitched on the gloomy side .
6 ‘ Fair enough , ’ Dr Neil replied , and by the careful way he spoke he had drunk quite a lot of the whisky from the half-empty bottle .
7 Mrs Thompson said : ‘ A lot of the history of the village is bound up in the names of local places . ’
8 So , to a degree , he 's earned the shit he gets , because of the way he 's manipulated the media — but it 's true , a lot of the criticism in the UK is stupid , really B-grade stuff .
9 And of course there was a thing we w a lot of the work in the mills was in or Selkirk and of course you went to the early train in the morning , there was a train from Galashiels to and it was full of workers going to the mills in and of course if you going er to work in a mill there , your , your foreman would come , you would draw the tools , at the , the night before you went to the job , you would take them there to the train in the morning , and meet the foreman and you would go to do the job and the same to Selkirk .
10 Answer : when it is called Microsoft Windows/NT Advanced Server — Microsoft Corp says that it has invoked the name change so as not to confuse customers since a lot of the functions of the OS/2-based LAN Manager which we know and love are already incorporated into the base operating system and Advanced Server will provide only the extras such as multi-domain management ; coincidentally of course , Microsoft will avoid discouraging any users that were n't particularly enamoured of LAN Manager 's original incarnation .
11 Answer : when it is called Microsoft Windows/NT Advanced Server — Microsoft Corp says that it has invoked the name change so as not to confuse customers since a lot of the functions of the OS/2-based LAN Manager which we know and love are already incorporated into the base operating system and Advanced Server will provide only the extras such as multi-domain management ; coincidentally of course , Microsoft will avoid discouraging any users that were n't particularly enamoured of LAN Manager 's original incarnation .
12 Garreton received a lot of the stick for the defeats against France and his Pumas days seem to be numbered , if not finished , especially after he told the French press that he would be playing in that country next season .
13 Our craft members are in danger of being poached by the A W E U. An amalgamation may not be some people 's ideal , but it will take away a lot of the friction between the two unions .
14 It er I do n't think a lot of the curriculum at the moment and erm you , you ask most teachers and they just say , grrr , forget that you know ?
15 They used to wear a lot of the collars with a , with a wing on the hard collar , you know , they used to wear a hard collar then .
16 I mean a lot a lot of the plans in the plan rooms
17 Crucially the second Republic failed to materially improve the lot of the majority of the Spanish people who lost faith in it and eventually rejected it .
18 With the result that , to this day , the guys spend a lot of the service in a kind of crouching position .
19 His whimsical friend , Aubrey , was also strongly against corporal punishment , although he allowed the use of thumbscrews as a last resort ! 18 Indeed , Locke 's book encapsulates what was clearly a new and growing attitude towards child-rearing and education which was to improve the lot of the child in the eighteenth century .
20 Having said that of course quite a lot of the stories in the tabloids are actually quite small .
21 A lot of the argument among the authorities on these animals is about the equivalence or otherwise of certain bones in dinosaurs and bird skeletons ( and particularly the Jurassic bird Archaeopteryx ) ; this makes for rather dry reading for the layman .
22 Of course , a lot of the information on the course may be old ground to an applicant with experience .
23 He 's pretty young — only about my age , and he paints a lot of the walls in the house — you know , with felt pens and spray cans and that .
24 This study shows up a lot of the over-simplifications in the ‘ status consciousness ’ argument .
25 we determine quite a lot of the quality of the carpet .
26 ‘ His junior record was only fair ’ , recalls Gottfried , ‘ but he had a lot of the tools for the job and he was willing to learn and to put in the time . ’
27 A lot of the characters in the play have very trusting natures , and this invariably leads to their downfall .
28 Unfortunately , a lot of the people in the little club called ‘ New Zealand sailing ’ ca n't accept that .
29 Almost all attempts to improve the lot of the serfs in the previous two or three generations had failed because they depended on the gentry 's goodwill .
30 In the natural course , a lot of the energy of the rose is directed into new growth — after all , the plant 's continued and future existence depends upon it — but not all .
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