Sentence examples for was believed lost from inspiring English sources
The manuscript was believed lost until a piano score of the prologue turned up in Moscow in 2004.
Around 25 inches in diameter and made of hand-blown glass, the crystal ball was believed lost until it was discovered in a prop house maintained by the creator of the crystal ball, Kenneth Strickfaden.
The text was believed lost until last autumn, when her lawyer, Tonja Carter, discovered a copy among the author's effects, attached to an original manuscript of To Kill A Mockingbird.
"The sooner all memory of it dies the better," he declared; and although scholars of the playwright certainly kept the memory of Exorcism alive, the play was believed lost.
Only last week, culture minister Ed Vaizey put an export deferral on a painting worth £30m to provide an opportunity to save it for the nation.Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap, by the 16th-century Italian Old Master Pontormo, was believed lost for more than two centuries before its rediscovery in a private art collection.
Kilpin died in 1916, aged 46, and his grave was believed lost until a historian tracked it down.
(Eleven more are believed lost).
The only exception are materials for Song of Solomon (1977), which are believed lost.
Two 1930s tableaus of grain harvesters, originally on the mezzanine of the West 12th Street building, are believed lost.
The approximately 4,500 negatives by Robert Capa, David Seymour (Chim), and Gerda Taro had been believed lost until they resurfaced in late 2007.
