Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] lose their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such politicizations might take feminist psychologists so far from the conventional discipline that they would lose their influence within it . |
| 2 | The minority , which could muster only 160 votes against the majority 's 855 , displayed considerable bitterness towards what they said was pressure on them to accept independence , and threats that they would lose their jobs or worse . |
| 3 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 4 | ‘ There are insufficient sportsmen who appreciate that they will lose their sports and the whole fabric of life in the country , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ But they will lose their reason , ’ says Peter Verkhovensky 's lieutenant when Peter has argued that the quintet will hold together after the murder ‘ unless they 've lost their reason ’ . |