Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] have lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARCO may have lost some of its glamour , but with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia performing an important task in educating a local market in international art , it is difficult to believe that the leading galleries will not return in a future year . |
| 2 | When it is recognised that England may have lost about one-third of her population in these critical years , the lull in military activity becomes understandable . |
| 3 | If that kind of thing had happened very often , Athens would have lost the war much sooner than she did . |
| 4 | And as it turned out , private investors in Concorde would have lost a lot of money and minded terribly . |
| 5 | ‘ Boro may have lost a couple of home games , but we always seem to be the whipping boys who allow teams to regain their form . ’ |
| 6 | Wimbledon must have lost about 30 balls cannoned over the stand roof . |
| 7 | He thought that Craig might have lost some votes because people had not forgiven his voluntary coalition heresy but recognized that , had Craig emulated Paisley and created a reputation as an active constituency MP , he would have retained the seat . |
| 8 | I mean who would have thought that Tranmere would have lost four nil ? |
| 9 | ‘ No — Anne would have lost her head in decent privacy within the walls on Tower Green . |
| 10 | The local Italian paper Il Piccolo was full of praise for Mussolini , pointing out that Italy would have lost Trieste to the Slavs if Mussolini had not reconquered it in La Rivoluzione Fascista . |
| 11 | As leader of the free world , supported by many other countries and more than adequately equipped , he and the US would have lost all credibility , had any other decision been made . |
| 12 | Commentators calculated that without tactical voting by supporters of the liberal Democratic Party ( which fell to third place after coming second in 1989 ) , the NP would have lost . |
| 13 | George may have lost his Lancashire accent , George may be a Bencher of Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 14 | I begin to think that Mike Gatting may have lost it , but the Second Test is at Lord 's , his home ground and I would give him one more chance . |
| 15 | ARDS may have lost the Irish Soccer Cup final to Bangor this season , but their swim minnows made sure Bangor were n't going to do a double at the Grove Pool last weekend . |
| 16 | Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch . |
| 17 | The court heard that Mr White may have lost control of the motorbike because of his guilt over the accident that killed his friend . |
| 18 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |