Example sentences of "loss of [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Proteus International , specialists in computer aided molecular modelling and drug design , announced a loss of £1.27m for the six months ended 30 September 1991 , compared with losses of £520000 in the five months to 30 September 1990 . |
| 2 | This compares with losses of $7.8m in the same quarter of last year . |
| 3 | An underwriting deficit for the period of $4m compares with losses of $65m in the same quarter last year and $42m in the final quarter of 1992 . |
| 4 | What tended in the past to be action stories have , without loss of excitement in the best examples such as the stories and novels of John Christopher and Nicholas Fisk , become serious exercises in prediction . |
| 5 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 6 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 7 | For the mutant polymerases , however , only the two most downstream regions -20 and -30 are protected ( Fig. 3a , lane 5 ; Fig. 3b , rows 3 and 4 ) : this is consistent with the loss of contacts in the -40 region . |
| 8 | Section 4 of the 1982 Act amends the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1934 so as to exclude the survival of any claim for damages for loss of earnings during the lost years for the benefit of the estate in respect of deaths occurring on or after 1 January 1983 . |
| 9 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 10 | The loss of vision in the peripheral field is frequently referred to as tunnel vision as this describes the effect . |
| 11 | A loss of adjustment to the 24-hour day |
| 12 | One major or two minor criteria were required for the diagnosis ; the major criterion was scleroderma affecting the digits , forearms or face ( 15 patients ) ; minor criteria were sclerodactyly alone ( 10 patients ) , distal pitting scars of finger tips ( 10 patients ) , loss of substance of the distal finger pads ( nine patients ) and bilateral pulmonary fibrosis ( seven patients ) . |
| 13 | And the company has unveiled a pre-tax loss of $2.3m for the last quarter of 1991 , much improved on last time 's $59m . |
| 14 | Mobil reported a net profit of $190m , after a loss of $119m during the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 15 | Aeschylus 's tragedy represents a loss of faith in the prophetic voice of women and the consequence of that loss for the Western discursive tradition . |
| 16 | But the loss of faith in the Communist Party is now so nationwide that workers and intellectuals can be making the same demand to deprive it of absolute power . |
| 17 | But despite a similar loss of faith in the republican regime and a similar loss of self-confidence within the regime , the two assumptions were , in crucial respects , far from identical . |
| 18 | Applied Biosystems turned in net profits of $900 000m for the six months ended 27 December 1991 , compared to a net loss of £5.4m in the same period in 1990 . |
| 19 | The full assimilation of this population to the native English and the submergence of Anglo-Norman culture within English culture took several centuries to complete , while the political separation of English and French territory was not complete until the loss of Calais to the English crown in the mid-sixteenth century . |
| 20 | The general damages for conspiracy and the alternative damages for deceit are claimed to include the following : ( a ) moneys ‘ expended upon the C.M.C. ’ by the plaintiffs after the commencement of the company ; ( b ) legal costs in fighting B.M.T. ; ( c ) the stain and stigma of bankruptcy ; ( d ) loss of earnings by the plaintiffs ; ( e ) the effect upon the health of the first plaintiff ; ( f ) loss of reputation of the first plaintiff ; ( g ) distress and suffering ; ( h ) loss of opportunity to develop the centre ; and ( i ) other consequential loss . |
| 21 | It is unusual for a person to lose the sight in both eyes at the same time , but loss of sight in one can be followed later by loss of sight in the second eye . |
| 22 | A loss of support for the federal government was indicated by an unexpected victory of the ruling Parti Bersatu Sabah ( PBS ) over the People 's Justice Party ( Angkatan Keadilan Rakyat — Akar ) formed in September 1989 by breakaway members of the PBS , in the Ranau by-election to the Sabah State Assembly on Dec. 9 . |
| 23 | The first multiparty local elections in Romania for 45 years , held on Feb. 9 , 16 , and 28 , demonstrated significant loss of support for the ruling National Salvation Front ( NSF ) compared with the parliamentary elections held in May 1990 [ see p. 37441 ] . |
| 24 | We have already pointed out that there can be no claim by dependants for grief or for loss of society of the deceased nor can there be any claim on behalf of the children for loss of a mother 's love , guidance and influence . |
| 25 | Gide 's narrative of a development from the desire for self-redemption in the space of the other , through the loss of self at the ecstatic height of this existential quest , to the unresolved sense of desire itself as a kind of loss , is amenable to a similar analysis ; in Gide 's case image and fantasy do indeed figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious . |
| 26 | A narrative theme can be a metaphorical image of a psychological process ; Wimsatt suggests that the relationship between the knight and the lady in Keats 's ‘ La Belle Dame Sans Merci ’ can be read as an expression of the ‘ loss of self in the mysterious lure of beauty ’ ( Wimsatt 1958 : 80 — 1 ) . |
| 27 | Having said that there is a partial loss of orientation in the Arabic version , it must be emphasized that the Arabic version does display a reasonable level of thematic continuity in its own right . |
| 28 | RESTRUCTURING and redundancy costs of £1.02bn pushed troubled oil giant BP deep into a loss of £594m for the nine months to end-September , the company said yesterday . |
| 29 | Terry Baughan , the financial director for both the Virgin Group and the airline , revealed that the airline had incurred a trading loss of £514,000 for the first three weeks of operation . |
| 30 | He has had to come to terms with the tragic loss of friends from the very start of his climbing career , and while he responds politely to my questions on this subject , I do not pierce the necessary shroud of self-protection that surrounds such memories . |