Example sentences of "lost [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is notoriously the case that little love is lost between the managers in charge of ICI 's commodity chemicals operations and those running the pharmaceuticals business .
2 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 ’ .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 She clung to him , like a weak , mad thing lost in the catacombs of hell and finding a soul to clutch at .
6 Part Two — Lost in the Caverns of Plenty
7 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 .
8 With the number of trees lost in the gales of autumn 1987 and again in 1990 , surely we can devise some material other than timber products , to end up burnt or rotting in the earth ?
9 But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke .
10 Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time .
11 Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew .
12 What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem .
13 ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time .
14 Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’
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