Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] lost [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had lost their glazed intensity and the fits of rapid blinking had stopped . |
| 2 | Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting . |
| 3 | ‘ When the debate [ referring to the exhaustive symposium probe by the AAAS ] was over , the dinosaurs had lost their high metabolic rate : they were , it turned out , passively warm-blooded , inertial homoiotherms . ’ |
| 4 | Heydays and low days The Soviet Union 's final Maydays had lost their triumphalism , and imperial decay and public dissent were evident , says Trevor Fishlock |
| 5 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 6 | The unions complained that thousands of workers had lost their jobs or had their pay cut after their jobs were transferred to the private sector . |
| 7 | He was replying to Ernie Ross , Labour MP for Dundee West , who said the workers had lost their jobs after a disputes procedure which had followed the Government 's employment law to the letter . |
| 8 | He was replying to Ernie Ross , Labour MP for Dundee West , who said the workers had lost their jobs after a disputes procedure which had followed the Government 's employment law to the letter . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ said Kāli : it was possible that the festival of ban pasāi had lost its association with the god of the forest before she was even born . |
| 10 | Rejecting the plaintiff 's argument that the section 49 statements had lost their confidentiality following two disciplinary hearings which she herself had attended , Bingham L.J . |
| 11 | For gradually over thousands of years , the Mother Goddess who gave birth to all things had lost her power as people realized that men had a role in procreation . |
| 12 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 13 | After wet weather their thunder can be heard from across the dale and once , and only once , in winter when many of the trees had lost their leaves , I caught a glimpse of them from Frostrow : shimmering skeins of white foam through the wooded gill . |
| 14 | In Somerset magistrates had to cope in 1790 with " a lawless Banditi of colliers and their wives , for the wives had lost their work to spinning engines … which they suppose , if generally adopted , will lessen the demand for manual labour . |
| 15 | The logs had lost their warmth , turning to grey ash ; the candles burnt low and flickered out , but they did n't notice . |
| 16 | Since last summer at least 256 teachers had lost their jobs after 10 fee-paying schools folded , said officials . |
| 17 | The sky was higher and the stars had lost their clockwork effulgence . |
| 18 | ‘ Finzi lost several close relatives during the First World War , and I think that his pacifist stance developed while he was still a young man , and of course , so many influential writers and musicians had lost their lives in the trenches — take Arthur Butterworth , for example . ’ |
| 19 | Over six million Germans had lost their lives during the war , about half of them soldiers , and most of those in the age group 18–35 . |
| 20 | Later in the same decade , when British filmmakers had lost their interest in international affairs , the same actor , George Cole , plays the inadequate gang-leader in Too Many Crooks ( 1959 ) , a film whose insights into the cold realities of contemporary marriage derives from the story of a kidnapped wife who plots revenge when her husband shows himself less than interested in paying over her ransom . |
| 21 | Her heavy Doc Martin boots had lost their fashion appeal . |
| 22 | The exception had become the rule ; nearly half the counties had lost their largest urban centres ; the division between rural and urban local government had hardened in a form which caused controversy for nearly a century , and which is still reflected in the current structure ( Hampton 1966:464 — 5 ) . |
| 23 | Government sources subsequently acknowledged that up to 3,000 people had been involved in the demonstrations , and that 200 had been injured ; unofficial sources suggested that as many as 280 students had lost their lives , together with twenty-nine policemen and soldiers . |
| 24 | The final composition of a governing coalition was almost impossible to predict in advance , however , in view of the high turnover rate of legislators — about one half of incumbent MPs had lost their seats in previous elections — and of the byzantine negotiating process which tended to characterize the post-election period . |