Example sentences of "[art] lot of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment Hotspur almost believed in her extinction , her relegation to the servant 's role which was the lot of daughters in their parents ' households ; and even for a moment it grieved him to believe in it . |
| 2 | There are still a lot of decisions to be taken before a successful timeshare operation can be ‘ got off the ground ’ , and the real challenge in this case is to work out what these are . |
| 3 | Inspector Dave Jenkinson , said : ’ We had had a lot of complaints about drivers with no lane discipline . |
| 4 | The spokeswoman said the centre had received a lot of complaints from women in the catering industry , concerning pay and conditions . |
| 5 | What I was going to say yeah I 've been involved in a lot of videos over recent years and erm central er and there 's a freelance budget which a caravan for central they usually charge about three or four thousand pounds depending on how long the video is |
| 6 | There were a lot of jokes about establishing gun-emplacements and throwing hand grenades . |
| 7 | They made a lot of jokes in their speeches , which pleased and shocked the Americans , for it was not then thought right in American debates . |
| 8 | patronized by Mr Chester as ‘ very fine in his way ’ , BR 23 ; considered a ‘ terrible fellow ’ by Dora , DC 48 ; referred to as ‘ the illustrious ornament of the Elizabethan Era ’ by Mr Micawber , DC 52 ; Mrs Wititterly inspired by a visit to his birthplace , NN 27 ; dreamed of by Mrs Nickleby ( ‘ … a black gentleman at full-length , in plaster-of-Paris , with a lay-down collar tied with two tassels , leaning against a post and thinking ’ ) , NN 27 ; his borrowings of plots defended by Nicholas Nickleby , NN 48 ; criticized by a Viscount ( ‘ There 's a lot of feet in Shakespeare 's verse , but there ai n't legs worth mentioning in Shakespeare 's plays ’ ) , MC 28 ; if played entirely by wooden legs ‘ would n't draw a sixpence ’ , OCS 19 ; referred to as ‘ Swan of Avon ’ , ‘ Bard of Avon ’ , MED 9 ; SB 53 . |
| 9 | but er any attempt to put anything on at the back to the extent , right up to the Scout 's hut in Beech Hall will , I think , generate a lot of feelings about |
| 10 | ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class . |
| 11 | It does n't er really sort of er er in a sense prevent er or mitigate against a lot of a lot of developments in the countryside . |
| 12 | He 's got all sorts of schemes a lot of schemes in the pipeline . |
| 13 | The Germans have counter attacked and inflicted a hell of a lot of casualties on the Black Watch . ’ |
| 14 | Yes , you can inflict a lot of casualties on an advancing foe , but you are extremely unlikely to stop him entirely . |
| 15 | There are a lot of structures around us that are made into triangles to give more strength . |
| 16 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
| 17 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
| 18 | Been involved in a lot of contracts with him . |
| 19 | But I mean , there 's a lot of houses for sale . |
| 20 | A lot of houses for sale ! is n't there ? |
| 21 | Cos there used to be a lot of houses under the shops along there as well . |
| 22 | As can be imagined , trying to obtain reasonable samples of the general population for relatively short interviews on such topics as voting behaviour or food preferences can result in a lot of interviewers having to call at a lot of houses over all towns and cities in the country . |
| 23 | I was writing a lot of tunes around my studies of that culture and then the Gulf War broke out and so there was more stuff to influence me . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I managed to punch my boilie out to the edge of a gravel bar about 60 yeards out , but I had to play the fish towards the top as I brought it in because there are a lot of boulders on the bottom , ’ explained Lee . |
| 25 | There were a lot of Indians like that , so used to the cycle of hurt and deadening that it was a snowballing addiction . |
| 26 | But I daresay , if you were speaking to some of the older men in the shipyard er who had worked in a shipyard before my time , that er a lot of riveters , a lot of tradesmen of all all kinds , found it hard to get employment once they were they were sacked you know . |
| 27 | There were a lot of trash-cans about and one of those cast-iron fire escapes with the really tedious retractable bottom sections . |
| 28 | Erm certainly a lot of meetings in the early days , focused on the level of policing in the flats . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's had a lot of knocks in her life , although you might not think it to look at her , perhaps . |
| 30 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |