Example sentences of "it lose its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A phenomenon which can occur on a high speed reach when air bubbles work their way down the skeg and cause it to lose its grip in the water . |
| 2 | As skin ages , it loses its ability to ‘ throw back ’ light ; the result is a complexion which seems to lose its youthful colour and tone . |
| 3 | A lamb remains a lamb until it loses its milk teeth , more or less at the end of the year , and — if it has n't lost its life as well by then — it becomes a hogget . |
| 4 | A sport , like a new spouse , can be so infatuated with its glamourous partner that it loses its head . |
| 5 | If a neutral event occurs within this time-window then it loses its neutrality . |
| 6 | When science forsakes this basis it loses its way . |
| 7 | One called Ilex macrocarpa , and I am not surprised it is n't on offer in the trade , has the biggest berries of all , but they are jet black and it loses its leaves in winter . |
| 8 | When a country surrenders its right to issue its own coinage , and does so irrevocably , it loses its sovereignty and thus the basis of its existence as a separate nation state . |
| 9 | A popular paint for iron railings , gutters and downpipes is black bitumen , which though it loses its gloss quickly still retains its protective qualities . |
| 10 | A popular paint for iron railings , gutters and downpipes is black bitumen , which though it loses its gloss quickly still retains its protective qualities . |
| 11 | There is no disgusting crusty dirt that does n't care if it loses its job ; instead there are the big boots and frocks of the playground dressing-up box , the scruffy jeans and last year 's trainers like the ones set aside for playing after school . |
| 12 | it loses its flavour . |
| 13 | ‘ Assessment is not in question ; it is when it becomes an automatic and unvaried process that it loses its value both for teacher and pupil . ’ |
| 14 | Private Eye will probably close if it loses its appeal against the award of £600,000 to Sonia Sutcliffe , which was also heard last week . |
| 15 | In addition , it lost its uniqueness and force as a result of two developments . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , it lost its way converting votes into seats and gave the Conservatives only 305 and Labour 294 , a similar result to that of the BBC/NOP exit poll . |
| 17 | In the election of October of the same year , the Labour party achieved an overall majority of only three seats : as a consequence of by-election losses and defections , it lost its majority in April 1976 , and by the end of the Parliament was in a minority by 17 seats . |
| 18 | She let it in , fed it well , took it to the vet : the animal plumped up and out : it lost its dinginess , it all but glowed orange in the dark . |
| 19 | It has also warned that some customers could be faced with paying more if it lost its hold on the household market . |
| 20 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 21 | It was precisely when the CNET scored its greatest success — at Pleumeur-Bodou -that it lost its quasi-monopoly . |
| 22 | In legend , it lost its tail because it was the last animal to board the ark . |
| 23 | ‘ But , ’ says West , ‘ it lost its magic and disturbing quality — and from that time on , he began to respond much more to what the audience expected him to be — and much less to all the original feeling he had shown for it . ’ |
| 24 | The Conservative Party lost ground , its vote falling from 23.7 per cent to 21.8 per cent , and it lost its control of the Oslo municipal council to an alliance of Labour and Socialist Left . |
| 25 | It lost its franchise to Meridian Broadcasting , the MAI company run by Labour peer Lord Hollick . |
| 26 | But the fact that each group came into existence in its own time and for its own reasons , and found its own identity and direction , means that we need have no fear about it losing its autonomy vis-à-vis the other groups . |
| 27 | Neither does it lose its sweetness by becoming diluted with rain water . |