Example sentences of "[be] lost if " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lester is one-dimensional ; there 's nothing else he can think about apart from riding race horses , and getting a bit of money as well also helps him , so the problem is , when you 're one-dimensional , you 're lost if you 're not doing the only thing you love and understand , and that must be a bit sad . |
| 2 | for the animal in its mud burrow , valuable time will be lost if it can not prepare itself for foraging until after the tide has left the shore . |
| 3 | Dublin had feared that up to £6 billion in EC aid could be lost if pro-life campaigners turned the forthcoming referendum seeking approval for the Maastricht Treaty into a plebiscite on abortion . |
| 4 | After meeting them , Nez Perce headmen including Lawyer and Timothy dispatched a delegation to St Louis in late summer 1831 to answer claims that ‘ the white man 's religion was better than theirs , and that they would all be lost if they did not embrace it ’ ( Catlin ) . |
| 5 | Over 2,500 mining jobs , and twice as many again in related industries , would be lost if Hinkley C was built instead of a coal station , it calculated . |
| 6 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 7 | All the advantages would be lost if teachers decided , whether on grounds of convenience or of egalitarianism , that whole classes of students should be entered for a particular grade examination . |
| 8 | For example , if the patient says ‘ I can not possibly measure my own blood glucose because I am at work all day ’ , the patient might be lost if the doctor were to insist . |
| 9 | Much of the benefit of running can be lost if we do not know how to run . |
| 10 | This means that , if trains took coal from a mine 10 kilometres up a branch line to a power station 100 km away , the model would expect only 10 per cent of the revenue to be lost if the branch line were closed . |
| 11 | Although MEL in Britain would build about 70 per cent of any such radars that the Royal Navy ordered , the other British firms are worried that expertise would be lost if an overseas design won . |
| 12 | They also knew that the support of Indian ‘ moderates ’ , that is , those Indians who were willing to be persuaded of the Raj 's essential righteousness of intent , would be lost if they became too blatantly repressive . |
| 13 | Note that it would be inadvisable to assemble the code directly into the location at which the unit is plugged since data could be lost if a mistake is made when relocating the SRAM . |
| 14 | Multiple mortgage relief on a single property or relief on home improvement loans taken out before 5 April 1988 can be lost if a new loan is taken out . |
| 15 | If your net profit on sales is 5 per cent and your interest costs are 10 per cent , your entire profit will be lost if you are not paid within six months . |
| 16 | It is felt that much of the progress students make whilst in college will be lost if they are not able to go on to meet fresh demands in new situations . |
| 17 | A golden opportunity and the enthusiasm of professional advisers would be lost if cost reduction was required to dominate without full analysis of the health gain to be achieved from improved ( and sometimes costlier ) drug treatment . |
| 18 | This teamwork aspect of the work of the Court of Appeal would be lost if written briefs were read individually by judges prior to limited oral argument . |
| 19 | The point that the author makes with this particular spelling would be lost if the words were reproduced in their standard form . |
| 20 | All would be lost if the same man , or the same body of chief citizens , or the nobility , or the people , exercised these three powers , that of making laws , that of executing public decisions , and that of judging the crimes or the disputes of private persons . |
| 21 | Records on the prime data track , as has been explained earlier , may each cause a full revolution to be lost if they can not be processed during the time the inter-record gap is traversed . |
| 22 | It is not enough , in the course of answering this question , to mention that the right will be lost if restitutio in integrum ceases to be possible . |
| 23 | In every other way he was doing wonders but it would all be lost if he fell into a trap and saw the paper closed . |
| 24 | He tossed it aside as if it were made of straw and she knew she would be lost if he touched her . |
| 25 | A real threat existed , because she responded to him physically , a threat to so much that she valued as part of her individual identity , autonomy , independence , pride , all of which would be lost if ever the weakness he created in her led to her succumbing to the dark attraction he held for her . |
| 26 | The Opposition do not say where they stand , can not say where they stand and can not admit to the jobs that would be lost if their policy were carried out . |
| 27 | Martin Burns of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers ' Union alleged that catering facilities were being run down and warned that jobs would be lost if the in-house contract was given to a private firm . |
| 28 | In addition GDR citizenship would only be lost if a citizen renounced it . |
| 29 | To inform them of who to contact if they have a problem plus benefits , discounts etcet etcetera , with particular emphasis on accrual benefits that may be lost if membership lapses , and the possible mention of loyalty benefits that may assist them in helping to recruit and retain other members . |
| 30 | An opportunity will be lost if systems in the various departments can not ‘ talk ’ to each other and share the same database . |