Example sentences of "[be] losing [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Does that mean that they are wrong , or you 're losing market share ?
2 You 're losing weight Kelly Ann .
3 ‘ Besides , ’ he added ill-advisedly , ‘ banks have been losing money hand over fist to the Third World . ’
4 Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers .
5 This second year of decline followed eight years of modest growth ; but over the long term independent schools have been losing market share .
6 Cosmos has been losing market share and falls out of the top four companies in 1986 as British Air Tours takes over ( Table 11.3 ) .
7 In the UK , the Chancellor continues to discriminate against spirits despite the fact that spirits — of which Scotch Whisky is by far the largest category — are losing market share to lower taxed , imported wines .
8 Swindon play Charlton tomorrow … and they could be losing full-back David Kerslake …
9 But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is .
10 Motorola Inc 's 68000 family may be losing market share to RISC in the workstation world at an alarming pace , but the applications-specific variants derived from the part , while much less visible represent big and growing business , making it fully worth Motorola 's while continuing to develop the family .
11 Look at what Geoff Mulcahy was saying earlier this year : that within electronics retailing as a whole , the big national chains were losing market share to independent , one-person operations .
12 Obviously it 's losing market share price competition impinging right down to the bottom line left right and centre .
13 My 1976 Series III diesel SWB is losing engine oil through the engine breather cap mounted on top of the rocker box .
14 TOP people 's auction house , Sotheby 's is losing money hand over fist .
15 An added fear is losing church members to sects or the free presbyterians .
16 KRISTI YAMAGUCHI , a fourth generation American-Japanese , is losing sponsorship cash because of her name , according to speculation in the US media .
17 As a result the country is losing market share and is ill-prepared to fight the European competition come 1992 and the single European market .
18 After going comfortably for nearly an hour Pat Connolly reported that he was losing engine pressure .
19 Five years ago Vauxhall was losing money hand over fist and relations between management and workers was at a low ebb .
20 First , the authority was losing revenue resources to the outer London districts under the RAWP formula .
21 Richmond bureau was prompted into this action when it felt that it was losing advice workers because of the tensions involved in the work and because insufficient support was given to alleviate it .
22 The Australians produced an impressive array of statistics to explain why the Pearl was underperforming and how it was losing market share .
23 Ever Ready , a battery maker , was losing market share to Duracell and made pre-tax profits of only £4.2m when Hanson bought it in 1981 .
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