Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] loss " in BNC.

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1 I am very sorry about loss of jobs .
2 Compensation up to eighteen pounds is payable for loss or damage .
3 A deletion of loss of intensity of one of these bands in tumour DNA is indicative of loss of heterozygosity , or allele loss , in tumourigenesis .
4 By concession and/or practice , under certain circumstances interest and rent received can be relieved by losses brought forward .
5 It was the peace of death and sorrow , in a land weary of war , and made listless by loss .
6 ‘ Well , anything unusual like loss of appetite , headaches , panic attacks … ’
7 Her heart was sick with loss , surprising her .
8 When ARCO tired of losses at The Observer , Tiny Rowland 's Lonrho , already owner of a Glasgow daily , bought it .
9 It was I who needed to see him because of the broken nights , the strain involved in loss of sleep . ’
10 Sloppy attitudes towards this topic quickly result in a careless approach which is vulnerable to loss of margins and , ultimately , overall financial control .
11 Vitamin C is the nutrient most vulnerable to loss in storage , cooking and processing .
12 All detectorist know how rich in losses the banks of rivers and the edges of ponds can be .
13 They simply tear at the flesh of the victim until the animal is weak from loss of blood , when they pull it over and start to devour it .
14 Naturally , the carrier can not be held responsible for loss or damage which results from the trader 's carelessness or negligence .
15 To be sure that the locus of a given lesion is responsible for loss or impairment of a particular capacity , it is helpful to invoke the principle of doubled dissociation proposed by Teuber ( 1955 ) .
16 Nevertheless , multiple persons and entities , such as ‘ shipowners , ’ ‘ charterers , ’ ‘ possessors of property shipped , ’ ‘ masters of the vessel , ’ their ‘ agents , ’ and even ‘ ships ’ are referred to as carriers in bill of lading law and practice once they are made responsible for loss or damage to cargo .
17 He said the government 's road building policy was the single most important aspect of policy responsible for loss of rural land .
18 This is on the basis that the acquirer is entitled to profits and responsible for losses .
19 2.00am : The borough solicitor , barely comprehensible through a jungle of subordinate clauses , warns councillors that failure to set a rate by midday would make them personally responsible for losses incurred .
20 At the same time the Panel , which has a permanent secretary and rotating chairmanship , represents machinery for coordinating the activities of these four principal charities concerned with loss of hearing .
21 Superimposed upon this will be a general decline in performance due to loss of sleep and fatigue .
22 In Galloway , for example , the reduced breeding performance of golden eagles is considered to be directly related to afforestation due to loss of open moorland which is their main feeding area .
23 Deforestation results in the already poor soil becoming virtually infertile , due to loss of topsoil .
24 This was partly due to loss of employment or employment prospects but , as indicated above , they may begin to accept ‘ being a nobody and start acting in a way that confirms the label …
25 It is unlikely that these deficits are due to loss of a neural mechanism dedicated to brightness discrimination .
26 It is unlikely that the ( insignificantly ) lower incidence of hypoglycaemia with human insulin in our study was due to loss of awareness and therefore reduced detection of hypoglycaemia because the incidence of severe and biochemical hypoglycaemic episodes did not differ for the two insulin species on routine monitoring .
27 An early restart had been planned , but the Inspectorate ruled against it on the grounds that there was still a risk that welds in the pressure vessels could fail as they cool , becoming brittle and eventually breaking , with the risk of a serious accident due to loss of coolant .
28 control contacted me yesterday to say that erm due to loss of system last week , and the fact that the Easter weekend erm is looming up on us , it means that they 've , they 've got insufficient time to run all the jobs that they needed to erm in the space that they , they would like to run them in .
29 If you find that more than one radiator is cold and they are all upstairs , the heating system may be starved of water due to losses not being replaced via the feed-and-expansion tank .
30 Due to losses in manufacturing , utilities , transport and communication , job reductions occurred in 38 of the 66 counties , with some of the greatest percentage reductions in counties affected by changes in the coal , shipbuilding and steel industries .
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