Example sentences of "a lot [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you read a lot about women in the hosiery industry not being as willing to join the unions , was that true ? |
| 2 | Erm , transport and equipment , Chairman , we 've heard a lot about minibuses for schools , and coaches . |
| 3 | You could learn a lot about humans by looking at their shoes . |
| 4 | For women , education in the men 's system has meant learning a lot about men in male ways and a lot about learning to be the women men have determined we should be . |
| 5 | Now , just as you 'll hear about the hook , the brief , the repackaging , you will hear quite a lot about modes over the next couple of days . |
| 6 | He must know a lot about shop-girls from his experience in his industrial parish . |
| 7 | Well many of the traditions nowadays , even the male orientated ones are depending a lot on women to upho hold them . |
| 8 | Seem to be , in all these novels though , runs outs , a lot on lists of er , middle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Inspector Dave Jenkinson , said : ’ We had had a lot of complaints about drivers with no lane discipline . |
| 11 | The spokeswoman said the centre had received a lot of complaints from women in the catering industry , concerning pay and conditions . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | There were a lot of jokes about establishing gun-emplacements and throwing hand grenades . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 's got all sorts of schemes a lot of schemes in the pipeline . |
| 20 | The Germans have counter attacked and inflicted a hell of a lot of casualties on the Black Watch . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , you can inflict a lot of casualties on an advancing foe , but you are extremely unlikely to stop him entirely . |
| 22 | There are a lot of structures around us that are made into triangles to give more strength . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Been involved in a lot of contracts with him . |
| 26 | But I mean , there 's a lot of houses for sale . |
| 27 | A lot of houses for sale ! is n't there ? |
| 28 | Cos there used to be a lot of houses under the shops along there as well . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |