Example sentences of "have lose [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland 's Jamie Henderson and Elliot Bunney , who are both Auckland-bound , will be there for the sprints , but with neither Brown nor Brian Whittle competing , the 400 metres has lost much of its appeal . |
| 2 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 3 | But for Pisa , which has lost much of its income from tourism since the tower was closed more than two years ago for safety reasons , the real miracle is that work is to start at last . |
| 4 | If a patient has lost much weight and particularly if underweight , then a good case can be made for commencing insulin . |
| 5 | Nova Scotia has lost much of its salmon spawning . |
| 6 | It seems to me to indicate a failure on the part of the union activists to understand that by ‘ withdrawing good will ’ , the state education service has lost much of the respect so painstakingly built up by successive generations of teachers . |
| 7 | His face has lost much of its puffiness ; his pecan-coloured skin refracts the late summer sun . |
| 8 | However , while he 's lauded in the West for his achievements , at home the award means much less ; perestroika has lost much of its appeal and simply means yet more empty shelves in the shops and more despondency about the economy . |
| 9 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 10 | As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community . |
| 11 | The Comet Hotel , Hatfield ( E B Musman , 1934 ) has lost all its fine interior fittings — such as an etched mirror glass wall with aeroplane vapour trails — some years ago . |
| 12 | ‘ She has lost all sense of time . |
| 13 | ‘ But Eleanor has lost all sense of the present . |
| 14 | They take at face value cases such as this one involving the policewomen , and they really believe that they live in a society that has lost all its civilised values . |
| 15 | The vote fell by 6.2 per cent , and the party has lost all momentum . |
| 16 | 1991 , 27 1148 ) , I at once came to appreciate why it is that chemistry has so largely lost its appeal to the young : it is because its teaching has lost all discipline , degrading the science from a pursuit of excellence to ‘ fiddling the results ’ . |
| 17 | The President of the National Assembly and former Prime Minister , Laurent Fabius , has spoken of ‘ the general crisis of politics … the malaise of a society which has lost all its landmarks translates itself into a suspicion of political parties and into a rise of anti-parliamentarianism ’ . |
| 18 | Inside , the church has lost all its movable decoration , although the stucco work is interesting . |
| 19 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |
| 20 | Here , all life is at its lowest ebb and man has lost all sense of direction . |
| 21 | Father will pay you , or if he has lost all his money , Peter will pay you when he is a man . |
| 22 | That cynical interpretation of the commitment of all those dedicated professionals who are carrying forward the first wave of trusts is so bitterly resented by the health service , which is why the Labour party has lost all credibility with the health professionals . |
| 23 | The exterior still shows the original form well but has lost all decoration . |
| 24 | Teacher ( in role ) goes to them to seek advice : " Melric , our magician , has lost all his magic ; and we do n't know how to do anything . |
| 25 | The bloke has lost all respect from me — and fuck knows have I stood up for him in the past . |
| 26 | According to Mr Hagger the company has lost many thousands of pounds because it paid for a loan that was not forthcoming . |
| 27 | The borderline between ritual and custom is a little blurred ; custom could be said to be a form of ritual that has lost many of its magical or religious overtones , but still retains some of the original intent to transform . |
| 28 | As a homosexual himself we learn , through his poetry , that Gunn has lost many close friends to the disease and may well have the HIV virus himself . |
| 29 | And he exults , like Richard III , in his abilities in deception , which have indeed supplanted his real self : It is difficult for a modern audience , which has lost that sense of reverence attaching to ‘ service ’ that animated Renaissance society , from the glorification of the vita activa down to the duties of bondsmen and tenants , to appreciate fully the shock that these self-revelations would have had . |
| 30 | These were the writers and newspapermen , paid hacks of the propaganda machine and tools of ‘ Anastasie ’ , the censor , who from their comfortable offices in Paris wrote of the nobility of war in the terms of Déroulède ; of the brave boys dying beautifully pour la Patrie ; who described the piling up of ‘ mounds of German dead ’ at each attack at Verdun , to the accompaniment of ‘ negligible ’ French losses ; and who published photographs of the grands mutilés with such captions as ‘ A Soldier Who Has Lost Both Feet , Yet Walks Fairly Well With Clever Substitutes , ’ or ‘ Who Has Lost Both Hands , Yet Can Handle a Cigarette and Salute as Before . ’ |