Example sentences of "lot of [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So why do n't you avoid a lot of unpleasantness and unlock the door ? ’ |
| 2 | Cos if they ca n't read through a lot of text and sort it out they have n't got much chance . |
| 3 | through sexual abuse , and I think we spend a lot of our time , and I think even for teachers , we spend a lot of our time undoing a lot of the damage of helping young people , undo a lot of damage that 's done by sex . |
| 4 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 5 | Fluency means being able to speak promptly , without a lot of hesitation or stumbling . |
| 6 | These are the rhyolites , which are right at the other end of the spectrum from basalts ; that is to say they are acid , contain a lot of silica and have the same composition as granite . |
| 7 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 8 | But some children , either through their experience of using tantrums to get their own way or through general strong will and temperament , will take a lot of teaching and repeated experiences to realize finally that they can not always get their own way . |
| 9 | The following activities will need a lot of co-ordination and imply the need for full-time posts : Schools/Industry curriculum development , — monitoring and placement of students who achieve Compact goals , — Work Experience . |
| 10 | A lot of activity or exercise during very hot weather makes us lose a lot of salt through perspiration . |
| 11 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |
| 12 | Then there are a lot of changes that went place took place in locomotion. erm mammals , in other words , learnt to gallop and their elbows rotated backwards and their knees rotated forwards . |
| 13 | In a lot of cases that does seem to happen , but I think it 's partly because people do the wrong things in training . |
| 14 | ‘ We talked a lot of times and got along great . |
| 15 | ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’ |
| 16 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 17 | It will certainly involve a lot of discussion and asking questions , and an appreciation of the setting . |
| 18 | er we learnt from America that er a lot of birds that have been caught by cats , die , and everybody 's always assumed it 's shock but the Americans were doing some tests and they found it 's septicaemia from the cat 's teeth . |
| 19 | But we still did a lot of sport and work on the assault course , which was a set of twenty-four gut-wrenching obstacles set on the edge of the camp . |
| 20 | They renovated the house , removing the Georgian stucco and revealing the Elizabethan stonework , and set about tackling the garden , growing a lot of potatoes and taking ‘ millions and millions ’ of box cuttings to repair and extend the hedging , probably planted by a previous tenant , Lady Strickland , at the turn of the century . |
| 21 | There 's a lot of rice that 's grown so in some areas the people can actually make a good living for themselves . |
| 22 | I felt absolutely no ill effects whatsoever , but then I was very fit , playing a lot of rugby and eating very well . ’ |
| 23 | So consequently a lot of stuff that ended up on record was the more soulful , slower stuff , but I have some places where I really get to stretch out on this record . |
| 24 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 25 | The advantage of ni-cads is that they will save you a lot of money if used correctly ; the disadvantage is that the initial purchase cost is high . |
| 26 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 27 | However , the family were unable to hang on to both properties , for Richard Gittins V stood surety for a friend , lost a lot of money and had to relinquish the lease to Eagle Farm . |
| 28 | On the minus side , she 'd blown a lot of money and received a couple of scares . |
| 29 | Which I know is all a lot of money and let me just tell you here , what we have spent this year on advertising . |
| 30 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |