Example sentences of "lose its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , Dubhe and Alkaid are moving across the sky in a direction opposite to that of the remaining five stars , so that over a sufficiently long period the Plough will lose its familiar shape . |
| 2 | Most Marxist thinkers , beginning with Marx and Engels themselves , have been inclined to relegate nationalism to a position of minor importance by comparison with class struggles ; to dismiss it ( as did Rosa Luxemburg in her statements on the Polish independence movement ) as a refuge of the petty bourgeoisie , which would lose its political significance with the growth of the socialist movement ; to connect it particularly with the development of capitalism in its imperialist stage ; or , finally , to attribute a limited value to national struggles against imperialism , as an adjunct of the fundamental conflict between the working class and the bourgeoisie . |
| 3 | THE Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society could lose its annual grant from Wirral Council because a disabled woman was asked to leave a concert . |
| 4 | It seems quite definite that the stars in a cluster have a common origin , and have remained as a group — though the gravitational pulls of non-cluster stars will be disruptive ; eventually the cluster will lose its separate identity and will be dispersed , though the process is bound to take hundreds of millions of years at least . |
| 5 | A further three MPs from Quebec resigned from the PCP on June 26 and , with others amongst the Quebec caucus threatening resignation , there emerged a possibility that the PCP could lose its overall majority in the federal parliament . |
| 6 | As a description of a life-style and material standard it is applicable to times of normal and good earnings but may lose its distinctive characteristics in trades under pressure of falling incomes and growing insecurity . |
| 7 | It will then lose its external gills , develop lungs and turn into a creature that closely resembles a burrowing salamander that lives in Florida . |
| 8 | Christianity , as long as it remains Christianity , can not lose its historical reference . |
| 9 | Yet if the GDR were to become a multi-party democracy , it would lose its identifying ideology and become a pallid shadow of the Federal Republic : less grossly consumerist , perhaps , but also less desirable . |
| 10 | The only surviving child of his marriage to Catherine was a daughter , Mary , and unless Henry was able to produce a legitimate son , the realm was likely to suffer a disputed succession on his death and , if Mary were to marry a foreigner , might even lose its independent status . |
| 11 | For the first five years of occupation the PLO , too , feared that it would lose its modest foothold in the territories . |
| 12 | Their decision means the region 's Health Service will lose its vital office staff , including those responsible for patient admissions , for one day on March 30th . |
| 13 | A pistol is pointed at its head , because it has been warned that , in the next year , there will be a further review under which it is likely that it will again lose its statutory framework and be cast adrift into voluntarism along with the 22 other boards which have been dismantled in the past eight to nine years . |
| 14 | Churchill in the cabinet in August 1954 expressed the fear that the United States , conscious that it must soon lose its nuclear lead over the USSR , might be tempted in the interval to try to snatch what advantages it could in the Cold War . |
| 15 | The rationale for this is , of course , the fear that the United States may lose its military lead and superiority over the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is written in the form of letters to God but transcribes as a diary which is a style close to the way Celie speaks , although her later writing matures , it does not lose its frank appeal ! |
| 17 | This is the sure way to make the reward lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 18 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |