Example sentences of "lost a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Courageous toddler Gemma Blades has lost a three-year battle for life . |
| 2 | Their 4-1 defeat by Australia here last year was the first time they had lost a one-day series at home . |
| 3 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 4 | ‘ Having lost a 2-0 lead against Bolton in the previous home game there was a little bit of a mental block and I can understand that . |
| 5 | We 've , I mean we 've lost a hundred pound on the car . |
| 6 | That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was . |
| 7 | It has lost a great deal besides its guaranteed monopoly of power : its sense of purpose , its old dominance over the economy , many of its perks — these have gone , along with 1.8m members last year alone . |
| 8 | They have already lost a great deal of the autonomy and self-determination they possessed under the Stormont regime . |
| 9 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 10 | In a similar way , ‘ mat ’ might be a neutral word for you — unless , perhaps , you are a member of the Islamic faith when it may be associated with your religious observances , or ( at a lower level ) you may have just lost a great deal of money in an investment in floor coverings ! |
| 11 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 12 | Interactive Systems Corp — now SunSoft Inc — began by marketing the product strongly , but later faced a barrage of complaints and problems over speed and stability , and reportedly lost a great deal of money over the venture . |
| 13 | In most Western democracies in the twentieth century , legislatures have lost a great deal of ground to executive branches . |
| 14 | In analysing these three passages in terms of a selection of their stylistic features , we have no doubt lost a great deal by isolating them from their literary context . |
| 15 | If you do this you have lost a great deal of value in the notes . |
| 16 | Since the end of the war , we have lost a great deal more of our forest land . |
| 17 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 18 | Today we have lost a marvellous opportunity put that right . |
| 19 | The regime of President Fidel Castro had lost a major source of economic and military aid with the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Torpedo have never lost a European tie on their dilapidated old ground and Ferguson knows Robson 's experience could be vital . |
| 21 | With each of is lost a distinctive system of concepts , a system for encoding and encapsulating experience , and a literature of songs and stories that probably contain elements that go back for thousands of years . |
| 22 | Before Lee 's win , Lingdale 's Stephen Swales had lost a controversial majority points decision to Peterborough 's Liam Maltby at junior A 45kg even Maltby told him he had been robbed . |
| 23 | We 've lost a blue budgie in the . |
| 24 | The miners might have lost a political battle , but they had not lost a war . |
| 25 | His master , Philip IV of France , would dearly love two things now Scotland has lost a strong king . |
| 26 | ‘ Lost a good bit , has n't he ? |
| 27 | I 'll feel that I 've lost a good friend . |
| 28 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 29 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 30 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |