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

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1 But there 's a lot of entertainment here at the Shrewsbury Flower Show for the children ; entertainers like Mr. Boom here .
2 This man Gennaro obviously has a lot of influence even among the less desirable characters in this city , or at least in this part of it .
3 It contains a spring , and the youngsters have a lot of fun there in the Orkney summer , They shout and lark about , the way growing children have always done .
4 The satellite pictures shows a lot of cloud just to the east of us , but you 'll see that it is moving away .
5 There seems to be a lot of interest nowadays in the radio of the past .
6 In that last summer term we spent a lot of time outdoors in the convent garden , in that part of it where our noisy unhallowed feet might tread .
7 Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor
8 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
9 We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent .
10 For the purpose of understanding the basic relationship between price and yield , the following needs to be explained , without going into a lot of detail here concerning the issue of Treasury bills .
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