Example sentences of "lost [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is notoriously the case that little love is lost between the managers in charge of ICI 's commodity chemicals operations and those running the pharmaceuticals business . |
| 2 | There was , of course , no love lost between the leaders of the British labour movement and the Bolsheviks . |
| 3 | Sight should not be lost of the calls for a separate small claims court ( see below ) and care must be taken in considering the use to which the procedure is put by the private citizen , as distinct from businesses and other organisations . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She felt a child again , lost in the woods near a country cottage they had once taken , without the usual landmarks of factory chimneys or people to ask , panic reaching out from every rock and tree . |
| 9 | The charming breasts were lost in the folds of a faded Aertex shirt of Andrew 's . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | GREAT BRITAIN last night handed the Maureen Connolly Trophy back to the United States after Anne Simpkin and Clare Wood , with contrasting performances , lost in the singles at Cardiff . |
| 12 | I got busy with the hammer , whistling away , and before long Joe too was lost in the mechanics of it all . |
| 13 | She made a show of welcoming Rain , her words lost in the shrieks of two girls as their skirts blew high . |
| 14 | She clung to him , like a weak , mad thing lost in the catacombs of hell and finding a soul to clutch at . |
| 15 | Part Two — Lost in the Caverns of Plenty |
| 16 | ‘ My grandfather was lost in the corridors for twenty-five years , ’ Endill said , trying to be friendly . |
| 17 | Two explorers were lost in the depths of the jungle in the middle of the night . |
| 18 | He took her face between his hands , lost in the depths of her eyes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | This method of heating has the advantage of being more economical as no heat is wasted keeping water hot and none is lost in the pipes between the hot water cylinder and the hot tap . |
| 23 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 27 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |
| 30 | The cells are lost from the tips of the folds and the stem cells are located at the very base of the folds . |