Sentence examples for reference was lost from inspiring English sources

The reference was lost on his captors.

It would be another three years before I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest so his literary reference was lost on me, but based on what I knew of my doctor, I figured Nurse Ratchet was a healthcare professional whom I would not like and at some point condemn to hell.

Once most of humanity is estranged from nature, rootless, unfamiliar with the rhythms of the seasons and the cycle of passing and renewal, bound by material considerations alone, uncomfortable with solitude and silence and darkness, jostled by the crowd and the hum and the neon, the danger is that some essential ethical ballast and reference is lost.

Once in islanding, the main grid reference is lost and new control techniques for the inverters are needed in order to obtain the correct values of voltage magnitude and frequency in the MG.

With HSS in multipath channels, this phase reference is lost after each frequency hop; therefore, we decided to perform the DS modulation by shifting the start time of the code.

But the 1980s references were lost on Ethan and Maya.

Rusbridger: Again, your references are lost to me.

That approach does risk certain social and cultural references being lost in translation.

The dollar figures now seem ludicrously low, and a few of the references are lost to history, but greed never goes out of style.

Will Lady Gaga's Jeff Koons' references be lost amid the nudity?

In dog 10, FPA was performed six months after surgery and values were still below reference ranges, this dog was lost for further follow up.