Example sentences of "losing its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainsbury 's own-label champagne I bought two years ago tastes even better now , developing greater fullness and depth of flavour without losing its keen edge or sparkling personality . |
| 2 | COULD French wine , long the traditional favourite among drinkers , be losing its premier status ? |
| 3 | Official results published on March 22 after considerable delays showed that the ruling right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) remained the largest single party , with 44.3 per cent of the vote , but had won only 39 seats , losing its absolute majority in the assembly ( where it had previously held 32 of the 60 seats ) . |
| 4 | Featuring a range of performance and community events , it manages to combine top-of-the-range literary activity and discussion with more accessible events , giving the literary festival a broad appeal without losing its essential focus on words and the wordy . |
| 5 | It is losing its instinctual knowledge . |
| 6 | Even Art is losing its protective powers . |
| 7 | Moreover , just at the time when the tape medium is losing its prime hold on the marketplace , the manufacturing technology has been vastly improved so that the best cassettes can now give aural satisfaction , even on the most demanding domestic equipment . |
| 8 | But for a game that imagined it was losing its club-orientated mentality , a game convinced that the staging of high-class football in comfortable surroundings would bring in the punters in their thousands , Old Trafford and Elland Road were bitter disappointments . |
| 9 | The idea is to re-create the building as a 12-bed extension for the neighbouring and packed Stockton mission for the single homeless without losing its historical railway look . |
| 10 | His voice had grown hushed and childish with wonder and his eyes filled , looking back to record this playful divination which might yet predict a future far removed from the cloister , which in any case was already losing its visionary charm for him . |
| 11 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |
| 12 | No wonder Europe is losing its competitive edge . |
| 13 | Yes , the world is losing its precious rainforest : in Central America , for example , the decline has been 38% in just over 30 years . |
| 14 | Shorn of its metaphysical sanction , law in the Renaissance was always in danger of losing its prescriptive power . |
| 15 | The writer , who was troubled that the Lake District was losing its local population , put her case as follows : |
| 16 | The Red Barrell company was losing its own Stag brewery , near Victoria Station , to redevelopment , and decided it was easier to buy another London brewery than build one . |
| 17 | And so the A N C has to make sure that while it works for the aspirations of its people it must also protect the country and I 'm afraid in this context it means it has through negotiations and other means also conceded made concessions in order to save the situation and the only organization that is now working for the national interest even losing its own supporters in the country is basically the A N C and it 's quite a remarkable thing to see that leaders are prepared to l lose political support because they have to make sure that the country does n't . |
| 18 | Secondly , claims that the family is losing its educational function need to be balanced by an acknowledgment that increasing emphasis is now placed on the central role parents play in their child 's development , even where very young children spend part of the day in the care of another ( see Part Two ) . |
| 19 | American tax law obliges the Getty to keep spending its dividend income or risk losing its exempt status , so in recent years the museum has dominated the institutional market for art . |
| 20 | Faced with the threat of losing its Parliamentary representatives the NAC had to agree to a plebiscite of the membership on the issue . |
| 21 | Giles continued , his voice losing its solicitous intimacy . |
| 22 | This version was more conical , losing its basic smoothness only at the head section above the louvres , where sat the eye and sensor apparatus fixed on a rotating turret . |