Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had lost [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late-summer sun had lost enough of its strength to cast a glow over the wealden village . |
| 2 | By the end of the eighteenth century in political life , as in economic life , the old aristocracy had lost much of its influence , through incompetence and indifference . |
| 3 | " Every state " , wrote a historian at the end of the eighteenth century when such questions had lost much of their earlier emotional charge , " while contending for this high and delicate point , has brought forward every sort of argument , however weighty , or however trivial , which could apply exclusively to itself " . |
| 4 | Though the right wing had lost much of its political leverage in the Cortes , their opposition found voice in growing street violence and eventually a military uprising which was to start the civil war . |
| 5 | I think I already knew then that I would not return to my job at the Polytechnic , for the security of that monthly cheque had lost all meaning . |
| 6 | One sorry looking creature had lost all its feathers . |
| 7 | They were on the road again just before four , when the fierce pin-point sun had lost some of its bite . |
| 8 | Roger 's sunburnt face had lost some of its colour . |
| 9 | When the fish were weighed ashore , one fish had lost some precious ounces but the other fish weighed in at 12 lbs 3 oz on certified scales . |
| 10 | The silly sheep , the witless pheasants , the dumb cows bred by man for his own purposes had lost all joy and definition , needing to be doused , medicated , imprisoned and fed until , poor bourgeois , they were ready to be killed . |
| 11 | Even before the 1987 bill , local authorities had lost all influence over pay and conditions of teachers when the government took away the negotiating rights of the teachers ' unions and imposed a pay settlement . |