Example sentences of "loss of [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A small improvement in gross margin partially offset the loss of contribution from the reduction in turnover . |
| 2 | What tended in the past to be action stories have , without loss of excitement in the best examples such as the stories and novels of John Christopher and Nicholas Fisk , become serious exercises in prediction . |
| 3 | Sources say the brutal way in which the coup leaders have been dealt with has caused a dramatic loss of morale within the army . |
| 4 | Erm the other , the other factor would , might be that the kind of k er decrease and loss of morale within the , within the , within the complex . |
| 5 | The anxieties associated with a journey and the change of routine can cause a general sense of fatigue which will often be increased by loss of sleep as a result of the timing of the journey . |
| 6 | On the contrary , unions appear to have been more effective and even the loss of trade union membership may be a consequence of the inability of the unemployed trade unionists to pay their unions fees rather than due to a loss of sympathy with the unions . |
| 7 | According to Dr John Pethick , a coastal geomorphologist at Hull University , the best solution is to avoid building in the worst-affected areas , and to compensate landowners for loss of land to the sea . |
| 8 | Britain is likely to suffer a major loss of land along the east coast especially around the Wash and Thames estuaries and the Norfolk Broads , while coastal protection works such as the ♯500 million River Thames barrier protecting London would have to be raised . |
| 9 | Thus payments to the government cause loss of liquidity to the banking system as a whole . |
| 10 | External frames are all but defunct in the UK because most have accepted that the ergonomically contoured internal frame sack is much more stable to carry than an external frame pack , even at the expense of some loss of ventilation to the back . |
| 11 | To Shorehead , Huddersfield , from Margaret Shaw who suffered temporary loss of vision during a migraine attack on a shopping trip : ‘ I could not possibly have been offered greater kindness — which went beyond mere service . ’ |
| 12 | The loss of vision in the peripheral field is frequently referred to as tunnel vision as this describes the effect . |
| 13 | A loss of adjustment to the 24-hour day |
| 14 | One major or two minor criteria were required for the diagnosis ; the major criterion was scleroderma affecting the digits , forearms or face ( 15 patients ) ; minor criteria were sclerodactyly alone ( 10 patients ) , distal pitting scars of finger tips ( 10 patients ) , loss of substance of the distal finger pads ( nine patients ) and bilateral pulmonary fibrosis ( seven patients ) . |
| 15 | The fitting of non-aerated or aerated low-flow shower heads could halve that consumption without loss of amenity to the consumer . ’ |
| 16 | Loss of faith in a traditional God-the-Father brought not spiritual anguish but freedom to explore more Motherly aspects of deity and the divinity of Nature . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Whatever their relations had been in life , this was no sacred invitation , since it coincided with her loss of faith in the consolations of religion . |
| 19 | Many Labour councils recognized that the victory of the Conservative Party in 1979 reflected a loss of faith in the way that both the economy and the welfare state had been managed by successive governments since 1945 . |
| 20 | By the 1980s , in the wake of the stagflation and slow growth in even the rich economies of the Western Europe , came an equally almost universal loss of faith in the capacity of any individual state to intervene decisively and effectively . |
| 21 | The surfeit of codes and jargons in which she is immersed brings about a loss of faith in the power of the word , but her attitude toward the ‘ instant world ’ that is ‘ whiter than white ’ because it has no memory and no values makes her uneasy . |
| 22 | Aeschylus 's tragedy represents a loss of faith in the prophetic voice of women and the consequence of that loss for the Western discursive tradition . |
| 23 | But despite a similar loss of faith in the republican regime and a similar loss of self-confidence within the regime , the two assumptions were , in crucial respects , far from identical . |
| 24 | Other polling organisations have also detected a profound and longer-term loss of faith in the way Britain is governed . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The process of ageing , which involves a gradual deterioration of physical and intellectual ability and loss of acuity of the senses , inevitably results in lessened ability to carry out the many activities involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment . |
| 27 | In addition , loss of acuity of the senses — particularly impaired sight and hearing — will reduce an elderly person 's awareness of danger , for example when crossing roads or when cooking in the kitchen . |
| 28 | Of the 11 probes studied , three showed different patterns of loss of heterozygosity between the primary and recurrent hepatocellular carcinomas ( Table I , Fig 2 ) . |
| 29 | The general damages for conspiracy and the alternative damages for deceit are claimed to include the following : ( a ) moneys ‘ expended upon the C.M.C. ’ by the plaintiffs after the commencement of the company ; ( b ) legal costs in fighting B.M.T. ; ( c ) the stain and stigma of bankruptcy ; ( d ) loss of earnings by the plaintiffs ; ( e ) the effect upon the health of the first plaintiff ; ( f ) loss of reputation of the first plaintiff ; ( g ) distress and suffering ; ( h ) loss of opportunity to develop the centre ; and ( i ) other consequential loss . |
| 30 | It is unusual for a person to lose the sight in both eyes at the same time , but loss of sight in one can be followed later by loss of sight in the second eye . |