Example sentences of "lot of [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigation was a lot of nonsense at the end . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Twenty-fifth August — a lot of excitement around the farm . |
| 4 | There were sirens along the road below and a lot of excitement around the stationary train . |
| 5 | Siward said , ‘ I can see the Normans already in line , and a lot of foot behind the banners and awnings . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There 's been a lot of damage to the ground here . |
| 7 | A full survey by Southern Science has revealed that there is a lot of damage to the pond lining and a dangerously deep sediment in the centre which contained a few dead fish and some frog spawn , although there is very little oxygen left in the pond . |
| 8 | If we used tractors on here continually pulling out timber , it would cause a lot of damage to the ground structure and would reduce the number of flowers . |
| 9 | Well , we 've had an awful lot of damage to the church . |
| 10 | That 's going to do a lot of damage in a soup bowl the size of Wembley stadium , I do n't think . |
| 11 | Aristotle called the kings ‘ hereditary generals ’ and an incompetent or even average king could do a lot of damage in a short while — like Kleombrotos who lost the decisive battle of Leuktra in 371 but was not catastrophically inept . |
| 12 | Her flat had suffered a lot of damage in the autumn gales and some of her recent writing had been totally destroyed at the first-draft stage . |
| 13 | I think John McGregor and Billy Kirkwood deserve a lot of credit for the work they have done with them . ’ |
| 14 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 15 | My mother 's been up there and she did n't come back for two hours and she came back we kept well he 'd sold a lot of meat in the meantime . |
| 16 | He seemed to be having great difficulty in keeping his eyes on the road , but after a corner entailed leaving rather a lot of tyre on the road he apologised then grinned at her . |
| 17 | These fads for physical fitness invariably , in my experience , lead to two things : a great deal of unnecessary injury and a lot of profit to the people behind the scheme . |
| 18 | The private sector makes a lot of profit from a lot of different services provided , but that 's not my idea of what public services are , or should be . |
| 19 | As a result Europe 's biggest electronics manufacturers have a lot of clout with the Commission . |
| 20 | We also plug West Cumbria and this is helping to bring in a lot of tourism to the whole region . ’ |
| 21 | Tiphook ends up with a lot of goodwill on the balance sheet , which can be a risky position to be in , but Montague is skilled at that sort of move . ’ |
| 22 | That morning he had to call on a lot of goodwill from the proprietors and editors of the media . |
| 23 | The company mounted a rear-guard defence of its three-pronged operating system strategy last week — OSF/1 , NT and OpenVMS — but it had left a lot of substance on the cutting room floor before finally calling together top industry watchers in Maynard , Massachusetts , and around the world for the ‘ Unified Unix ’ strategy briefing ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 24 | Gary Player did a lot of sponsorship on the black side because we felt we had to help . |
| 25 | And as you can see , even after three print I 've managed to lift off quite a lot of scum from the surface . |
| 26 | But having spent all his career in a family business , Sir Adrian has inevitably given a lot of thought to the responsibility a company should have for the community in which it operates . |
| 27 | With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead ! |
| 28 | Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials . |
| 29 | I 've put so many features on this , but also put a lot of thought into the layout , so it 's easy to see what switch does what . |
| 30 | I mean unless we had erm a change of government , say , and we had a women 's ministry where someone was putting a lot of thought into the role of women in our society , and what one could do to improve the position for women , but we have n't got a government that 's thinking in those kinds of ways . |