Example sentences of "have lost " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you have lost your Inns , drown your empty selves , for you will have lost the last of England . ’ |
| 2 | And without the new grant for golden hellos the World would have lost its research workers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They may have lost their feudal rights and their privy purses , but in many of these formerly-gilded princedoms there remains a powerful bond between ex-rulers and ex-ruled . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Jansher Khan , the new world champion who had his $15,000 prize money withheld because he left the official dinner early , may have lost his chance of taking over as world No. 1 . |
| 6 | As Brazil 's midfield dynamo , Dunga , of Fiorentina , says with a wry grin : ‘ Brazil 1989 would n't have lost that game to Italy in 1982 . |
| 7 | The latter will have lost the national telephone system , gas and steel industries , and the country 's largest airline . |
| 8 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 9 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , a National Audit Office report is thought to have concluded . |
| 10 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , according to a National Audit Office report . |
| 11 | ALLEGATIONS that the Department of Trade and Industry may have lost the taxpayer millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace are to be made by the National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog . |
| 12 | Sir Geoffrey Howe , increasingly sidelined by events , must have lost his best moment when this week 's challenge failed seriously to wound the Prime Minister . |
| 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 | ‘ We could have fought an honourable , Observer-Guardian-style war with the Ludovic Kennedys in charge , but we would have lost it and Britain would have been enslaved , ’ he wrote . |
| 15 | John Morris , the board 's secretary , has already suggested to the World Boxing Council that , since Duran was inside the middleweight limit when he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard , he should have lost that title , even though the pair were fighting for the world super-middleweight championship . |
| 16 | The tour may have lost an offshore event but financially it is far from being at sea . |
| 17 | If you 're not one of the 3.5 million who have already contracted out you will have lost out on the chance to back date for up to two years the National Insurance Contributions rebate plus the extra 2 per cent ‘ bribe ’ . |
| 18 | At 96 we would have lost our deposit . |
| 19 | And I suppose we might have lost her in the long run , but not just yet . ’ |
| 20 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 21 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 22 | Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost . |
| 23 | Probably they would have lost all the same , but another bowler might have made it much closer . |
| 24 | But , to judge from the unsureness of their gait , they must have lost their sea legs somewhere between Sheffield and Colchester , perhaps after an incident involving a couple of bottles of Drambuie . |
| 25 | But Heller himself signed , like most people , ‘ because otherwise I would have lost my job , ’ he recalls frankly . |
| 26 | If you are low in stamina you will have lost your ability to get through the day without becoming over-tired . |
| 27 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If Catholics get something which makes them happy , then Protestants must have lost something . |
| 30 | There is however another sense in which we are all grieving people , because at some stage or another we will have lost something or someone significant . |