Example sentences of "lot [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight individuals living and working together in the confines of a ninety feet steel hull for three months and still parting as friends at the end of the trip says a lot for compatibility of the cutter crews . |
| 2 | Er you read a lot about women in the hosiery industry not being as willing to join the unions , was that true ? |
| 3 | We talked yesterday about a lot about Europe about the importance of workers ' rights in Europe , but here we can expand upon this . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was very dark , and there were a lot of clouds in the sky . |
| 6 | The investigation was a lot of nonsense at the end . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Twenty-fifth August — a lot of excitement around the farm . |
| 9 | There were sirens along the road below and a lot of excitement around the stationary train . |
| 10 | Siward said , ‘ I can see the Normans already in line , and a lot of foot behind the banners and awnings . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There 's been a lot of damage to the ground here . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well , we 've had an awful lot of damage to the church . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I think John McGregor and Billy Kirkwood deserve a lot of credit for the work they have done with them . ’ |
| 17 | After all , there are a lot of divisions in the police — they do n't all wear uniforms and some do n't even shave . |
| 18 | In a larger building , like that in which I work , I would have to store a lot of instructions of the above kind in order to find my way about . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He 's got all sorts of schemes a lot of schemes in the pipeline . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As a result Europe 's biggest electronics manufacturers have a lot of clout with the Commission . |
| 26 | There are a lot of ducks on the pond . |
| 27 | We also plug West Cumbria and this is helping to bring in a lot of tourism to the whole region . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | That morning he had to call on a lot of goodwill from the proprietors and editors of the media . |
| 30 | Well a lot , I found a lot of blokes in the infantry they were so scared of some of the officers and I |