Example sentences of "lost [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , of course , no love lost between the leaders of the British labour movement and the Bolsheviks . |
| 2 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 3 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 4 | In those early oil years they were easy marks and millions , perhaps billions , were lost in the pockets of the sleazy where the pounds and dollars grew in a muddy climate . |
| 5 | The precise origins of the Mage Wars have been lost in the fogs of Time , but disc philosophers agree that the First Men , shortly after their creation , understandably lost their temper . |
| 6 | The charming breasts were lost in the folds of a faded Aertex shirt of Andrew 's . |
| 7 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
| 8 | I got busy with the hammer , whistling away , and before long Joe too was lost in the mechanics of it all . |
| 9 | She made a show of welcoming Rain , her words lost in the shrieks of two girls as their skirts blew high . |
| 10 | She clung to him , like a weak , mad thing lost in the catacombs of hell and finding a soul to clutch at . |
| 11 | Part Two — Lost in the Caverns of Plenty |
| 12 | Two explorers were lost in the depths of the jungle in the middle of the night . |
| 13 | He took her face between his hands , lost in the depths of her eyes . |
| 14 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 15 | In elections to the Bürgerschaft ( city parliament ) in Hamburg on June 2 , the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) regained the absolute majority of seats which it had lost in the elections of June 1987 [ see p. 35208 ] . |
| 16 | With the number of trees lost in the gales of autumn 1987 and again in 1990 , surely we can devise some material other than timber products , to end up burnt or rotting in the earth ? |
| 17 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 18 | But the details of the incident have been lost in the mists of history and for most people all that remains is a fleeting memory of the dejected player arriving at Heathrow Airport to face a miserable future as one half of a very well worn footballing joke . |
| 19 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 20 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 21 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 22 | Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world . |
| 23 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |
| 24 | The cells are lost from the tips of the folds and the stem cells are located at the very base of the folds . |
| 25 | Nora realised how much ground she had lost to the attitudes of the Hall . |
| 26 | She glimpsed again that girlish figure momentarily outlined against the walls of the abbey only to slip away like a wraith and be lost among the shadows of the beach . |