Example sentences of "lot [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 But I think it is it could well be counter-productive to put bans on buying tropical timber , particularly blanket bans , on the other hand , I think there 's a lot of case to be , a lot of point in asking people and pressing people to say whether the folk that the timber is coming from sustained yield forest .
2 There is a lot of money to be won this week and people should earn it not only on the course but off it as well . ’
3 ‘ There is still a lot of money to be made , ’ says Muggleton .
4 During the affluent 80s when it seemed property prices soared higher each day , there was a lot of money to be made in real estate .
5 ‘ Making the decision to come in is difficult for an investor , ’ Sir Bob Reid said in a recent interview , ‘ as there is no easy exit once you are in , and there is not a lot of money to be made in the railway business . ’
6 In the Chichester area , she said , the minimum cost of a hardwood coffin is £300 , which , ‘ seems a lot of money to be burned ’ .
7 Thought he 'd make a killing , you see ; a lot of money to be made from property development . ’
8 There 's a lot of money to be made in that if you want little bits of , put things here and there that you can different
9 cos it 's a lot of money to be perfectly honest
10 Lincolnshire has a lot of history of being a well managed authority , a proved exercising sound controls on its financial and management affairs , and I 'm pleased to say that I 'm again in a position to confirm that that is our view , for the conduct of the Council 's business in the period on which we are reporting .
11 It needed a lot of experience to be able to hold it correctly so that all the twenty-five shots in the magazine riddled the target .
12 It takes a lot of patience to be friendly towards people who at first seem hostile and resentful .
13 But further research was needed on climate change : ‘ Before we can translate this into practical policy and precise targets , there is a lot of work to be done as a matter of urgency . ’
14 Even with an ample supply of new molecules from nature there is still a lot of work to be done .
15 It must be admitted , though , that this very informal technique does require quite a lot of work to be done both before and especially after the interview and the researcher is always in danger of forgetting to put a point forward or not being able to understand his or her own notes afterwards .
16 ‘ There 's still a lot of work to be done on the timing of the throw .
17 ‘ The new laws are there , there 's a lot of work to be done in implementing them and coaching players to best effect .
18 CA has also set up a similar bundling agreement for CA-Unicenter with Sequent Computer Systems Inc , however , this version still has a lot of work to be done on it and is n't likely to appear until this time in 1993 .
19 ‘ There 's one hell of a lot of work to be done , but I 'm sure we 'll make it if we give those niggers a kick up the backside . ’
20 There 's a lot of work to be done .
21 The town had been largely burnt and rebuilt ; it looked uninteresting and , as there was a lot of work to be done on board , I did not go ashore .
22 There 's a whole lot of work to be done . ’
23 But he admits there 's still a lot of work to be done before the Commission does itself out of a job .
24 ‘ Umm … although it 's only been half-restored to its original state , and so there 's a lot of work to be done .
25 There 's a lot of work to be done on that .
26 We had moved house and there was a lot of work to be done .
27 ‘ Not only are people needed during the summer to supervise children and organise activities , there is a lot of work to be done beforehand , planning a timetable , and arranging helpers and activities .
28 He says his new post will not be a quiet one and expects there will be a lot of work to be done in the parish , which also covers the villages of Cockfield , Woodland and Butterknowle .
29 So I think there is a lot of work to be done there , but as you rightly say , it has to be done carefully and one must n't get the dependency on calculators which one does see around one .
30 I think only twenty four per cent thought that , that flu was preventable , so er there 's a lot of work to be done to get the message across .
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