Example sentences of "[art] loss of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But the greatest potential damage to Rangers ' hopes of victory would be the loss of McCoist with a calf injury .
2 ‘ Then , of course , the cataclysmic events of of 1989 and the recommendations of the Youth Commission , which attributed the debacle partly to the loss of credibility in the media , have all been determining factors .
3 Water from the River Jordan would be diverted for irrigation , and the loss of water to the Dead Sea would be compensated for with sea water from the Mediterranean .
4 This Invention relates to lifts for transferring barges and other vessels from one level to another on canals and other waterways in lieu of an ordinary lock or flight of locks , the object of the invention being to obviate the loss of water from the higher to the lower level by lockage inseparable from the ordinary system and to provide for the passage of vessels simultaneously in both directions and at a single life and between levels of widely different altitude where by the loss of time incidental to the passage through a flight of locks is in great measure avoided .
5 Worsley ( 1.1 ) evaluates three key themes related to the family in industrial society : the isolation of the nuclear family , the loss of functions of the family , and the character of relationships between husband and wife , and between parents and children .
6 The loss of vision in the peripheral field is frequently referred to as tunnel vision as this describes the effect .
7 The second item is the loss of grant for an archaeology assistant three thousand eight hundred pounds , this is one of these things where we 've had English Heritage at our grant and has tapered to fade out .
8 The Southern protestants have diminished greatly in numbers since 1911 , because of the loss of life in the 1914–18 war , some emigration , and probably mixed catholic — protestant marriages ( Walsh 1970 ; White 1975 ; Ch. 7 , below ) .
9 The loss of profit in the punishment phase must be enough to wipe out the gain from reneging .
10 ‘ A small improvement in gross margin partially offset the loss of contribution from the reduction in turnover .
11 He is not at all nostalgic , but he mourns the loss of friends like the poet , Jacques Prevert .
12 All too often , flexible working also entails the loss of entitlement to an adequate occupational pension , and hence the possibility of real hardship during retirement .
13 Interestingly , the loss of responsiveness in the cells is correlated with a change in appearance to human observers looking at the stimuli through a similarly sized aperture .
14 But the loss of faith in the Communist Party is now so nationwide that workers and intellectuals can be making the same demand to deprive it of absolute power .
15 The full assimilation of this population to the native English and the submergence of Anglo-Norman culture within English culture took several centuries to complete , while the political separation of English and French territory was not complete until the loss of Calais to the English crown in the mid-sixteenth century .
16 The loss of support for the Greens was attributed to their critical stance on unification , their internal divisions , and the espousal of environmental causes by the other parties .
17 It was reported on Sept. 15 , 1990 , that 21 families had accepted out-of-court settlements for the loss of relatives in the UK 's worst helicopter disaster in 1986 .
18 This exception can be explained by a strong , but short heating event , by which the coalification process preceded the loss of porosity in the reservoir rocks .
19 For the mutant polymerases , however , only the two most downstream regions -20 and -30 are protected ( Fig. 3a , lane 5 ; Fig. 3b , rows 3 and 4 ) : this is consistent with the loss of contacts in the -40 region .
20 The Habsburgs had been stung by the loss of Silesia into a series of far-reaching administrative reforms , while Russia had once more displayed her military strength and had consolidated her dominant position in Poland .
21 However , the loss of income of the women studied did have a considerable impact upon them and their families .
22 Parents were reluctant for them to leave home too early — particularly because of the loss of income to the family budget that would ensue — and there was a fear also of the independent youth culture with its sexual rituals , such as the ‘ monkey parade ’ , public courting areas where youth proudly proclaimed both its independence and sexuality .
23 Gide 's narrative of a development from the desire for self-redemption in the space of the other , through the loss of self at the ecstatic height of this existential quest , to the unresolved sense of desire itself as a kind of loss , is amenable to a similar analysis ; in Gide 's case image and fantasy do indeed figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious .
24 They do so by hurrying the loss of cholesterol in the bile .
25 This explains the loss of tone in the neck muscles under the chin , used as one of the defining characteristics of REM sleep .
26 Collisions with satellites , rings and exospheres can also result in the loss of particles from the magnetosphere , and also , by sputtering , to the ejection of new ones .
27 Save as provided by s3 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , in the case of causes of action accruing after 1 January 1983 ( see below ) , no sum can be awarded to relatives under the Act for their own mental distress or for the loss of society of the deceased .
28 1992 was a particularly difficult and frustrating year on the whole for the management business as it struggled to replace the loss of business from the private commercial sector , the mainstay in the past , and re-orientate its services to the public sector .
29 The loss of people in the country areas is called rural depopulation .
30 The loss of Gough after the interval was another setback for Souness .
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