Example sentences of "been lost in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Designed as a demonstration of bi-partite segregation between public and saloon , it lends itself poorly to unification , and the restorable public bar would have been lost in the process . |
| 2 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 3 | The Jesuit College of St Alban , an English seminary in Valladolid , this month celebrates the 400th anniversary of its foundation , the programme including Mass in Westminster Cathedral but , sadly , no return of the 1907 fixture with Real which the college won , though the result seems to have been lost in some priest-hole of history . |
| 4 | Almost a million new jobs have come to the state since 1990 , many in pharmaceuticals and electronics , making up for the 1,000 jobs a month which have been lost in mature heavy industries . |
| 5 | Front-end bite and turn-in are very good , and grip is excellent , but the adjustable cornering balance of the previous 3-series has been lost in pursuit of a more stable , secure chassis . |
| 6 | After countless such visits he was afraid to look into the bowl in case something of himself had been lost in his body 's writhing struggles to empty itself . |
| 7 | Some of my best writing has been lost in this way , for I have reason to suppose that the letters were not kept , not even in an old shoe-box . |
| 8 | An obvious corollary is that coins with a long circulation life will have been lost in greater proportions than coins with shorter circulation lifetimes . |
| 9 | What has been lost in all this second-guessing is the wanton reckless joy of his finest records . |
| 10 | The industry estimates that more than 100,000 construction jobs have been lost in the recession , and the pace seems to be quickening as projects end without new ones to replace them . |
| 11 | Mr George Kynock reclaimed the seat most Conservatives felt should never have been lost in the first place . |
| 12 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 13 | The control of Parliament is perhaps even better illustrated by the fact that few pieces of legislation have been lost in the Commons in the ten years since Mrs Thatcher became prime minister — the Shops Bill comes to mind , but there is talk of its reintroduction in a future session . |
| 14 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 15 | These offer special concessions to help you build your business and so create jobs to replace those that have been lost in mines and steelworks . |
| 16 | But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke . |
| 17 | This , of course , relieves a lot of unnecessary muscle tension and teaches me a way of restoring the completeness of the body in a relaxed and coordinated way that had been lost in my early childhood . |
| 18 | It has created 1,900 jobs but during the same period over 800 existing jobs have been lost in an area which lies at the heart of three parliamentary constituencies with some of the highest unemployment rates in Britain . |
| 19 | However , some clarity of reporting has been lost in the process of giving the additional information the SAS requires . |
| 20 | Other ships had also been lost in World War I while navigating other narrows where there is the added risk of going aground . |
| 21 | Around them lay the wreckage from the most costly gamble in British history — with a third of the nation 's foreign reserves thought to have been lost in Mr Lamont 's battle to protect sterling . |
| 22 | Because it was deemed to have been lost in antiquity , the finder was allowed to keep it , although happily the British Museum was able to buy it at auction . |
| 23 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 24 | Many a Dark Elf army has been lost in Tiranoc while trying to make its way to the more populous lands of the south and east . |
| 25 | This remarkable pioneer created twelve of these machines , of which eight still survive , the remaining four having been lost in battle or exploded during trial runs . |
| 26 | Frances Stevens ( 1970 ) in reviewing the marking of examiners in A-level English literature , compares the gradings given to two particular scripts and reveals how much information has been lost in labelling the girl C and the boy D : |
| 27 | This helps to explain why more jobs have been lost in this recession than in the early 1980s . |
| 28 | Such walls could have been overlooked in the excavation , since their existence was not even suspected , and any surviving traces may have been lost in the extensive stone robbing and disturbance by tree roots ( see excavation report , fig. 4 ) with subsequent soil erosion . |
| 29 | As far as decline is concerned , a census published in 1987 showed that of the jobs lost between 1979 and 1984 , 94 per cent had been lost in ‘ the north ’ . |
| 30 | 1788 " The Meeting having had many Complaints of the Great danger to Travellers in Crossing the Water of Auchacharlich , and that several persons have of late been lost in the water , and considering that a Sufficient Timber Bridge will answer every necessary purpose there , this Meeting " appoints a Committee for erecting the said bridge . |