Example sentences of "lost [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French , it must be said , have been lost for centuries in wonderment at science . |
| 2 | Nor will the number shrink from six , because the recent megamergers have shown that , far from being a sensible move , such a regrouping reduces partnership profitability , clients are lost through conflicts of interest and economies of scale are not attained . |
| 3 | Workers have identical skills , which are not lost during spells of unemployment ( but they are differentiated by their level of commitment , discussed in Assumption 5 below ) . |
| 4 | Later , squatting among our baggage and fellow travellers in the back of a jeep bound for La Paz , we silently nursed our battered pride , lost in thoughts of home . |
| 5 | But if you were playing with a drummer who liked to give it some wallop , you 'd soon be lost in terms of volume , and that would piss you off a bit . |
| 6 | To recapture the adventures of youth that she had missed or lost in years of stress and studying and working . |
| 7 | He got no further , his words lost in cries of acclaim and agreement . |
| 8 | Also , some genotypes are lost from experiments through death , which will cause an inevitable decrease in variance if fecundity and survival are correlated . |
| 9 | One false turn and I would have been lost among boulders of ice and snow , rocks and fallen trees . |