Example sentences of "lots [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determined collectors bid two lots through the roof . |
| 2 | I 've been lucky enough to get two lots through , but with the third lot I did n't succeed . |
| 3 | Well lots through to day , cos there 's the big hole or there 's a lot of pressure . |
| 4 | Wengen 's skiing is extensive , but for piste skiers is mostly easy ; Murren is very limited , with one spectacular descent from the famous Schilthorn ; Zermatt has something for everyone and lots for experts , but to reach its full potential needs better snow than it often receives ; Saas Fee has an excellent glacier , but again needs abundant snow to provide much more than that — in particular , to satisfy better skiers . |
| 5 | At one time , estate agents were entering sufficient lots for it to hold 100 sales a year in the City or in the New Connaught Rooms . |
| 6 | At Edwin Evans , James Coker reported a brisk sale last month , selling 60 per cent of the lots for a total of £2 million , with a considerable number of those remaining being sold to underbidders . |
| 7 | The following evening , Simon de Pury , in excitable , almost hysterical mood , sold thirty-five lots for £11.33 million ( $17 million ) at Sotheby 's , but a further twenty-two works , mostly less important material , were left on his books . |
| 8 | Comparable figures for the same periods last year were $1.104 billion ( £638.7 million ) and $512.9 million ( £289.5 million ) In 1992 the company sold seventy lots for over $1 million , compared to Christie 's sixty-nine . |
| 9 | There , James Miller took charge of the rostrum and managed to sell ninety-eight lots for a total of £913,280 ( $1.4 million ) , with another eighty-six lots failing to attract sufficient bids . |
| 10 | His polished blend of humour , encouragement and persuasion resulted in the sale of fifty-one lots for $19.4 million ( £12.9 million ) , but a further twenty-six lots failed to find buyers . |
| 11 | As a result , Sotheby 's salvaged a poor session , selling forty of sixty-one lots for $11.2 million ( £6.2 million ) against presale estimates of $17.6–23.3 million . |
| 12 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
| 13 | The ‘ wanted to sell ’ ads stretched for pages , and one main street consisted of wall-to-wall car lots for over a mile on both sides ! |
| 14 | At the same time Keegan believes there would be value in a ‘ swap ’ system that enabled clubs to put four freed players into a pool then draw lots for a draft pick on the lines of American Football . |
| 15 | Well there 's lots for grandma so we 'll have to sort out what 's what . |
| 16 | I could tell you lots about me orphanage days . |
| 17 | You can find out lots about your worm by some simple tests . |
| 18 | For some the solar challenge is a flat out race … for others it 's a a journey of discovery … take the team of schoolgirls from Adelaide … they 've built their car in class and have just passed their driving tests one of the girls says … she 's learnt lots and lots about the car and she did n't realise it was such a big event |
| 19 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 20 | This is n't the velvet-glove power of a Ferrari or a Lamborghini , not even the more base power of a V8 such as Aston make , it is the bad-boy rumble of the hot-rodder 's art — lots in , lots out , speed costs money , how fast do you want to go ? |
| 21 | There 's lots of new plays being written that I look at and say ‘ Oh yes — there 's lots of opportunities there ’ . |
| 22 | There 's lots of new plays being written that I look at and say ‘ Oh yes — there 's lots of opportunities there ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He uses lots of it , ’ agreed Ethel . |
| 24 | We used to have lots of friends but they all seem to have gone now . ’ |
| 25 | In September 's issue of Good Food magazine you 'll find lots of delicious recipes for this season 's crop of plums . |
| 26 | Come next spring , you should have lots of new young plants — and all for free ! |
| 27 | This month 's plan is for a wide , rectangular border which receives lots of sunshine every day . |
| 28 | Lots of clever ideas to banish gloom and turn that difficult shady spot into an elegant and eye-catching planting feature . |
| 29 | He stayed the week and was given lots of extra training , but he was still unsafe when he returned to the USA . |
| 30 | One further consequence of attributing pre-eminence to quantity in relation to detection rates means that the ‘ prig ’ who ‘ clears his slate ’ ( admits to lots of crimes , no matter how trivial ) becomes a prized catch , simply because he helps the figures . |