Example sentences of "lost [prep] [art] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She clung to him , like a weak , mad thing lost in the catacombs of hell and finding a soul to clutch at . |
| 5 | Part Two — Lost in the Caverns of Plenty |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 12 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 13 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |