Example sentences of "[to-vb] lost [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE market appears to have lost its patience with Saatchi & Saatchi 's proposed disposal of its management consultancy business . |
| 2 | Gold seems to have lost its old role as a safe haven . |
| 3 | It is an unusual piece of consumer advertising , but Southend is a town that seems to have lost its way . |
| 4 | An old favourite is the spinach souffle ( £4.95 ) , light as a politician 's promise ( though the anchovy sauce seems to have lost its bite ) . |
| 5 | In particular the block examination at 16+ appears to have lost its justification , when almost all 16-year-olds will go on to further education of some sort , whether in a sixth form or elsewhere . |
| 6 | He ought therefore to disappear at the first opportunity , especially since the purpose of his stay , that of meeting Katja Müller , appeared to have lost its point … |
| 7 | The salt itself , ’ she remarked sadly of socialism as early as 1958 , ‘ seems to have lost its savour . ’ |
| 8 | The industry , which once appeared so promising , now seems to have lost its self-confidence . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the company seems to have lost its way of late — even Mr Sugar is on record as saying he has little idea of where the next 1512 is going to come from . |
| 10 | By the late 1930s the legal realist movement seemed to have lost its way . |
| 11 | A child 's birthday seems to have lost its magic and has just become another consumer oriented status symbol . |
| 12 | But , perhaps most importantly , the nation seemed to have lost its pride and its sense of direction . |
| 13 | ‘ Britain — a great country which seems to have lost its way . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Britain — a great country which seems to have lost its way . ’ |
| 15 | Thus , the symbol of science in this case seems to have lost its scientific elements and have become anchored in much older images ( perhaps even in the image of a wise man , who has constructed his own Golem within his own brain ) . |
| 16 | And indeed , reality seemed to have lost its accustomed hold , just as the day wavered uncertainly between night and morning . |
| 17 | Even the dark fall of her hair seemed to have lost its gloss . |
| 18 | The whole world seemed to have lost its flavour since she had fallen in love with a man who did n't love her . |
| 19 | Someone who is mildly depressed finds his everyday life to have lost its pleasure and interest . |
| 20 | Even the dark hair seemed to have lost its shine . |
| 21 | Reflecting in 1968 on the difference between him and Communists of the older generation , he said : ‘ They seem to approach reality by way of certain abstract categories , which seem to them to have a lot of meaning and to reflect concrete experience … ; [ whereas ] members of my generation tend to use as a starting point reality as it exists at the moment , they form general concepts on the basis of this reality and they disregard categories which seem to have lost their relevance and to function more as incantations than as concepts . ’ |
| 22 | Many people were said to said to have lost their nerve in the ‘ catastrophe ’ and in the heat of the moment to have given voice to ‘ comments hostile to the State ’ . |
| 23 | Although sufferers appear to have lost their appetite — which is what the word anorexia literally means — their chief worry is weight increase . |
| 24 | Shottermill 's three main strikers , Bob Daynes , Nick Wells and Joe O'Shea , seemed to have lost their scoring touch just when 'Mill needed it most . |
| 25 | All seem to have lost their support crews in the dark and we are being fed by whoever is at a lock . |
| 26 | With the San Fransisco 49ers beating Minnesota Vikings 20-17 , the Cowboys now seem to have lost their chance to stage all their play-off games at home . |
| 27 | Overall , Ecclestone and Balestre both seemed to have lost their minds . |
| 28 | Some were just curious , and would pretend to have lost their way and hope to be invited to spend a night . |
| 29 | So much of the national press seem to have lost their hold on what is real and what is n't . |
| 30 | ‘ As my words appear to have lost their power to charm I suppose I may as well diminish myself to beast of burden . ’ |