Sentence examples for were to be lost from inspiring English sources

"It would be tragic if this opportunity were to be lost.

"It's both undesirable and unacceptable if either Afghanistan or Iraq were to be lost.

If the referendum were to be lost, yesterday's speech will be largely irrelevant.

It would be a tragedy if all that were to be lost as a result of funding cuts and high fees.

The letter adds: "It would be a tragedy, in both France and the UK, if all this work and the extraordinary opportunities it provides were to be lost.

What a tragedy if those sounds were to be lost, never mind the violin concertos that are so much better known.

I've been bad, I know what it is to be lost".

"The detainee's subjectivity was to be lost in a flood of American sounds," Johnson and Cloonan write.

So if your data was to be lost, it is more or less guaranteed that they would find it.

A total of 226 out of 600 jobs are to be lost, to make savings of £80m by 2014.

He was always aware of this very beautiful moment, this complicated human moment, and that it was to be lost".