Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] lose their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children are very quick to spot this and will take advantage of the situation — and once they know they can get away with anything , you will lose their respect . |
| 2 | On the one hand , if they go along unquestioningly they may lose their autonomy , and their subordinates will see them as not having significant influence with corporate . |
| 3 | These units will fear they may lose their contracts and close . |
| 4 | They should lose their jobs when the ’ impossible ’ happens , just as the president of Japan Air Lines quit when an aging jet crashed . |
| 5 | If they lose that , they 'll lose their home and much more . |
| 6 | Because what we do n't have is people turning up to work because they 're afraid they 'll lose their job during these recessionary times . |
| 7 | But it looked at one stage as if they might lose their first choice and have to stay in Reigate for another summer when negotiations for the purchase coincided with their long-planned holiday of a lifetime — watching last month 's world cup cricket in Australia . |
| 8 | The notion that they might lose their Brown Owl if she married shocked the Pack . |
| 9 | For example , Zambian government officials claimed that a story ( in the Times of Zambia , June 23rd 1970 ) to the effect that clothing factory workers believed they might lose their jobs as the result of a new duty on imported cloth , was the work of clever lobbying by clothing manufacturers and retailers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Cheltenham had lost their last five games and despite creating some excellent chances , looked as if they might lose their sixth . |
| 12 | They could lose their jobs , or DPR could go bust , without warning . |
| 13 | Now the workers whose complaints started the probe fear they could lose their jobs . |
| 14 | Now the workers who brought the matter to light fear they could lose their jobs . |
| 15 | After the case was adjourned , the couple said that if they lost their home , they 'd lose their livelihood too . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But none of them would be tempted to incorporate : capital is already available to them ; incorporation would not give them protection from litigation ; and , perhaps most importantly , they would lose their most precious asset — and their achilles heel — their privacy . |
| 18 | In this fighting , the Australian plan was to be bold while steadily withdrawing eastward , even though once boxed into a small corner of the island they would lose their precious mobility . |
| 19 | If there was a strike or industrial dispute Socialist Worker and Socialist Challenge sellers would rush to the gates to lecture workers on how they would lose their ‘ struggle ’ if they stopped short of Permanent World Revolution . |
| 20 | Such politicizations might take feminist psychologists so far from the conventional discipline that they would lose their influence within it . |
| 21 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 22 | There were screams and cries from Scottish Conservative Members , who said that , unless the Government did something , they would lose their seats . |
| 23 | When it was announced that Central was to take over from ATV , many were concerned that they would lose their favourite programme , the serial ’ Crossroads ’ . |
| 24 | Now I just do n't think that 's rea realistic , that 's different from saying you may have a bail system , cos that 's what I thought you were suggesting and for people to b come into the ring as pension fund managers , they would have to perhaps to put up securities of a million pounds each to o operate in this area and that if they behave badly , if funds went missing , if it was proved they were negligent , they would lose their million pounds bail , just as people lose bail when they do n't turn up to court . |
| 25 | Save intensely blue , purple and crimson flowers for dramatic flourishes within a paler context , otherwise they will lose their impact and seem too heavy or lifeless . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 27 | That is why Labour and the Tories stand in areas where they know they will lose their deposits . |
| 28 | ‘ There are insufficient sportsmen who appreciate that they will lose their sports and the whole fabric of life in the country , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Tell people day and night that they are beasts if they allow baby 's thighs to chafe , of that they will lose their friends unless they banish cat-box odour from their homes , and they will soon believe it , if not consciously , then in the little compartment of the brain that controls buying habits . |
| 30 | But some members of the group fear that , inside the HSE , they will lose their teeth . |