be lost to

Like a lizard's detachable tail, it was more or less designed to be lost to predators while leaving the animal essentially unharmed.

If I were not secure in my identity, it would be lost to what others imagined it to be.

2 when struck out of the ball might be lost to ensure match speed players must play provisionally ball.

Christian Horner has dismissed speculation that Sebastian Vettel could be lost to the BMW-Sauber team in less than two years.

Ironically, if you choose not to follow up, there's a chance the position will be lost to someone else because you failed to act.

If traditional sports culture was to cease growth and innovation, it would be lost to history.

New Orleans would be lost to the sea, much of southern Florida and Bangladesh and most of the Netherlands.

Now, part of the formal control over this structure would be lost to nature, obviously, as the bacteria do their work.

The jobs that visibly move to foreign parts get all the attention, but jobs can also be lost to other parts of the same country.

This area of town is known as the Bermuda Triangle because drinkers can disappear into the pubs and clubs and be lost to the world.

Soon he, too, must pass to this Life Invisible and be lost to me for ever.

Older workers' knowledge and experience can easily be lost to the company when they retire.

It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the atmosphere, reducing carbon emissions while also cutting costs.

In the next 40 years, agricultural land will be lost to urbanization, desertification, sea level rise and increasingly salty water.

Difficult, I would like to challenge you, I absolutely will not be lost to you!

Morality is measured in dots, which can be lost to degeneration by performing unethical or criminal acts.

Therefore, the speed gained from eliminating function calls may be lost to memory swapping.

These preparations will be lost to some in the moments after Disclosure as a whirlwind of activity and events unfolds on your planet.

I knew if I went to Florida, Hillary and I might be lost to each other.

Recent estimates have shown that as much as 25% of medicines which are procured can be lost to fraud, bribery and other corrupt practices.

They are mired in strict adherence to traditions only they remember, whose original purpose may be lost to time.

Pure data can be lost to hardware failures and disk crashes.

We are afraid to be lost, to be uncertain, and so we run after those who promise heaven in the religious, political or social fields.

For certain you have to be lost to find a place as can't be found. Elseways everyone would know where it was.

But must n't you be lost to discover?

be lost to the Black Death