Example sentences of "have lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-nine of the prisoners have already died , Pilot Mohammed El Shamey has lost his mind , one has taken his own life . |
| 2 | It is headed by the big man 's white man , the Belgian scholar Raymond , who has lost favour with his patron and is sinking into ceremonies of highly-placed sagacity , Salim has an affair with the white man 's white woman , his stylish wife Yvette : radical chic persuades him that he ‘ never wanted to be ordinary again' . |
| 3 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 4 | As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community . |
| 5 | The Comet Hotel , Hatfield ( E B Musman , 1934 ) has lost all its fine interior fittings — such as an etched mirror glass wall with aeroplane vapour trails — some years ago . |
| 6 | This patient has lost the semantic representations for many words ( the brain 's store of meanings ) , but retains the link between the visual input and speech output lexicons . |
| 7 | Anyone who believes that Mr Chatrier 's remarks can be dismissed either as those of someone who has lost touch with reality , are also way off the mark . |
| 8 | Steffi has lost at least four times this year to Sabatini . |
| 9 | The burn marks are most easily achieved when the Woodcarver has lost its edge |
| 10 | The burn marks are most easily achieved when the Woodcarver has lost its edge |
| 11 | There is another leitmotif in this funny , happy ballet , the precious red umbrella , Alain 's only love — or so it would seem — for it is the one thing he clings to and simply has to find when he has lost Lise . |
| 12 | Medically , it 's impossible for someone who has lost their sight due to glaucoma to get it back . ’ |
| 13 | As the game progresses , owners should start to win the chase or the tug-of-war so , by the end of each game scenario — before Fido has lost interest — they are in possession of the toy , playing with it and not allowing Fido to have it . |
| 14 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 15 | Nearly 15,000 tourism workers have lost their jobs and the industry has lost almost 300,000 tourists a week . |
| 16 | Sir : Uppark is the third great house which the National Trust has lost through fire since the last war . |
| 17 | While UAU rugby has lost out on money , Blackheath have lost the services of their coach , Alex Keay . |
| 18 | Labour is certain to retain its commitment to spend more on the health service with a promise to restore the resources to the hospital sector it has lost in real terms since being in office . |
| 19 | Just how rough can be judged by the fact that Annabel Salmon , Eurotunnel 's official spokeswoman , yesterday called off her engagements on the grounds that she has lost her voice . |
| 20 | GLASNOST , it would seem , has lost its charm — or more accurately perhaps , the Soviet people have realised that man can not live by words alone . |
| 21 | The Establishment has lost its heartland in the Conservative Party . |
| 22 | Majors , such as Land Securities and MEPC , have been hit severely and unjustly and Brixton Estate , a favourite in Armchair Investor , has lost a quarter of its value since this column recommended investors take profits at the end of August . |
| 23 | He has lost half a stone since his move from Tottenham , partly , he thinks , because French players do not have the English habit of sinking a few post-match lagers . |
| 24 | It has lost 58.7 points in two days and 93.3 points since the Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , hoisted interest rates to 15 per cent on Thursday . |
| 25 | Democratic leaders say the fact that the White House remains determined to pursue the capital gains cut suggests that the administration has lost interest in a steady , bipartisan campaign to reduce the deficit . |
| 26 | ‘ He has lost his pension rights and the personal affection of those dear to him and also , when a police officer goes to prison , he often carries an extra load for his misdoings . ’ |
| 27 | pastiche is black parody , parody that has lost its humor . |
| 28 | The colonised body which Kahlo clothed in revolutionary idealism has lost its function as a symbol of nationhood becoming instead an icon of female suffering . |
| 29 | More important than either of these is what the 325i has lost . |
| 30 | She feels she has lost a daughter all over again . |