Example sentences of "[noun pl] [modal v] have lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the central problem remains — cities may have lost segments of their populations , but they have been left with ever-more dependent communities . |
| 2 | A man who had superglue squirted in his face by muggers may have lost the sight of one eye . |
| 3 | Such houses may have lost their furniture and collections , but they retain remarkable plasterwork and woodwork , fine halls , staircases and saloons , marble chimneypieces and mahogany doors . |
| 4 | ‘ We think these blackbirds must have lost their brood and taken on the bluetit chicks as substitutes . ’ |
| 5 | This is a delicate negotiation and if at a later stage the prospective purchaser who made the highest offer withdraws , the other parties may have lost interest or not wish to participate . |
| 6 | Mr Nelson responded to interventions by MPs on both sides who claimed that if the Bank of England had acted sooner fewer depositors would have lost cash . |
| 7 | Soon Berlin will become overpopulated by images , like New York and Paris , and its images will have lost their powers , save those of reflecting and recalling one another . " |
| 8 | That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was . |
| 9 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 10 | ‘ Break the will , if you would not damn the child ’ — and damnation was a very present and real risk , in an age when most families would have lost at least one infant and often several . |
| 11 | The Polish government realised that the action of the Danzig dockers might have lost them their independence . |
| 12 | A fortnight ago in Tbilisi , Dinamo turned in a stylish performance , and only for the heroics of goalkeeper Wesley Lamont the Blues would have lost by more than two goals to one . |
| 13 | Cooke was due to slip below Prean on the next list , which should appear at the start of the New Year , but unless there is a rapprochement between the player and the ETTA , whose chairman is Prean 's father John , the rankings will have lost much of their meaning . |
| 14 | Some of Britain 's most prolific bidders may have lost some of their confidence after recent setbacks . |
| 15 | Finally the interrogators must have lost their patience , or perhaps it was just the heat of the vodka . |
| 16 | If Catholics get something which makes them happy , then Protestants must have lost something . |
| 17 | But then the newspaper boys would have lost a story ! |
| 18 | In June 1382 troubles in Rouen , caused partly by a reaction to the French crown 's fiscal demands , were suppressed with some vigour ; the events may have lost Charles VI friends and supporters in Normandy , still an area to be tended with attention by the royal authority in Paris . |
| 19 | Admittedly , the Barbarians were considerably below their traditional strength because of the priorities of the cup and league matches in England and Wales but I doubt if the Barbarians would have lost to South Korea if scummaging had been part of the game . |
| 20 | The chivalrous impulses of Hi Ridden and Sard Harker are natural and human as well as idealistic : if they had not been , the novels would have lost much of their vigour and point . |