Example sentences of "lost [prep] [art] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the human body was lost as a point of reference , and as a measure of value , Jung 's psychology became relativistic and over-spiritualized . |
| 2 | There would also be related difficulties in quantifying what the company had lost as a result of board passivity . |
| 3 | When the original object of a wishful impulse has been lost as a result of repression , it is frequently represented by an endless series of substitute objects none of which , however , brings full satisfaction ’ ( vii . |
| 4 | VO5 's Moisturising Plus is a range of luxurious shampoos and conditioners which help replace natural oils and moisture lost through a combination of styling and environmental wear and tear . |
| 5 | The chief significance of this from the ‘ separation of ownership and control ’ viewpoint is that it is said to restore ‘ integrity to the goal-specification and policing process ’ that is lost through the attenuation of shareholder control . |
| 6 | Th the , one of the main principles is a comprehensive clarification and rationalisation of child care law , probably the biggest we 're gon na get this century , and basic principles , as Councillor is that parental responsibility can not be lost through the process of law . |
| 7 | Yet in the case of electronic records the details of provenance are all too quickly lost following the process of generation . |
| 8 | She touched her soft cheeks , the once-proud cheekbones lost beneath a covering of fat and pulled down the sagging flesh beneath her bloodshot eyes ; she had never been beautiful , now she was merely plain . |
| 9 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 10 | If the all-provident mother of the hunter-gatherer societies had been lost with the coming of agriculture and weaning so that a divine substitute had had to be found in heaven in the shape of the mother-goddess , then eventually a real , human substitute had been found on earth in the person of the all-powerful emperor or king whose granaries could supply in reality what the opulent breasts of the divine mother promised in phantasy — namely , reassurance against oral anxiety and the fear of hunger . |
| 11 | The mountain behind the farmhouse was lost in a mist of snow and sleet and we had to smash the ice on the horse trough in the mornings . |
| 12 | In the distance detail was lost in a scrim of rain . |
| 13 | Samuel had his own thoughts , lost in a dream of vengeance . |
| 14 | Or is dance going to be overloaded and the choreographic design lost in a mass of stage materials , such as too-heavy costumes , an overdose of stage effects and machinery or over-powerful sets which dwarf the dancers . |
| 15 | Often a lot of necessary information about characters or plot has been established in previous episodes or the language items you 're interested in are lost in a flow of language your students could n't cope with . |
| 16 | He sat on alone until all unease was lost in a luxury of self-absorption . |
| 17 | Lost in a trance of pain , toward whom you yearned . |
| 18 | Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing . |
| 19 | The precise origins of the Mage Wars have been lost in the fogs of Time , but disc philosophers agree that the First Men , shortly after their creation , understandably lost their temper . |
| 20 | Although some DNA adducts are lost in the course of DNA extraction during the enhancement procedures and in the chromatography stage of this assay , and this means that true adduct levels tend to be underestimated , valuable information on relative adduct levels is emerging . |
| 21 | Those they select are passed up to Waugh 's desk whether they are lost in the plethora of paper that almost obscures the wood . |
| 22 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
| 23 | For all other primary tasks performed by the system no more than the results of one working day of processing will be lost in the event of processing error or power failure . |
| 24 | No more than the current proof-print will be lost in the event of failure occurring during the proof-printing of single entries . |
| 25 | She clung to him , like a weak , mad thing lost in the catacombs of hell and finding a soul to clutch at . |
| 26 | Set incongruously among the mess was a jam jar with a bunch of freesias still bound with a rubber band , whose delicate sweetness was lost in the stink of sex , scent and whisky . |
| 27 | Lost in the world of imagination , I forgot my sad , lonely existence for a while , and was happy . |
| 28 | Part Two — Lost in the Caverns of Plenty |
| 29 | The grandees never recovered the influence lost in the War of Succession , when they proved themselves politically unreliable , incompetent , and excessively tetchy . |
| 30 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |