Example sentences of "a lack of [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lack of rigour in the investigation . |
| 2 | The ability of the Police Complaints Authority to supervise may counter the criticism that there is a lack of rigour in the investigation . |
| 3 | This concept implies peripheralisation , an existence on the borders of society , where there is a lack of participation in the urban social structure . |
| 4 | a lack of clarity in the boundaries and lines of authority and decision making between one agency and another ; |
| 5 | When this happens , any excess demands on the heart , such as hard exercise , will result in a lack of oxygen in the heart muscle , and angina pectoris — typical cardiac pain — will result . |
| 6 | Could he remind the House which Minister exercises overall responsibility for NIE , and why that Minister has shown such a lack of activity in the past few years ? |
| 7 | Consequently a lack of cooperation in the international monetary system only served to intensify the economic problem of the 1930s . |
| 8 | A very strong impression , even now , is of a lack of diversity in the planning and delivery of activities in ways that may not be in the best interests of the children . |
| 9 | This low level of activity indicates a lack of extensive interior melting , or a thick lithosphere , or a lack of stress in the lithosphere , or some combination of all three , all of which can result from a long history of low internal temperatures . |
| 10 | A lack of trust in the parents because of a worrying secret can undermine the child 's sense of security at home . |
| 11 | Three main reasons were given for the apparent lack of enthusiasm : board members found it difficult to spare additional time for this form of training ; they were doubtful of the ability of outside trainers to provide training in tune with local needs ; attempts by some education authorities to retain part of the training budget in order to supply such area sessions were seen by some members as demonstrating a lack of trust in the board 's ability to organise its own training . |
| 12 | In that situation , a lack of trust in the tutors ' role was inevitable . |
| 13 | The confidence debate heard claims by Mr O'Malley that the coalition had become unworkable because of a lack of trust in the cabinet engineered by Mr Reynolds . |
| 14 | Conversely , a very high rate of short interactions may sometimes reflect a poor level of control or a lack of structure in the tasks set . |
| 15 | Geoffrey had stopped outside the fourth ground-floor window from the garden door — Loretta was relieved to observe a lack of lights in the rooms adjoining it — and was already slipping his ruler into the gap between the two parts of the sash window . |
| 16 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 17 | Notwithstanding these restrictions , Basque officials are confident that the quality of the art works that will be transferred to Bilbao will be guaranteed by clauses in the agreement , and by the fact that , due to a lack of space in the New York Museum , only about one-seventh of the total Solomon Guggenheim collection can ever be exhibited there at any one time . |
| 18 | An independent consultant looked at the studies for WEN and reported flaws and a lack of objectivity in the use of raw data , statistics and language , although Procter and Gamble has refuted these allegations . |
| 19 | It could be that a lack of support in the community also contributes to postnatal depression — it certainly increases anxiety and unhappiness . |
| 20 | In health , constipation is rare , being a reflection in many human cases of a lack of roughage in the diet . |
| 21 | The publication in July 1990 of the half-yearly figures for industrial production indicated a lack of improvement in the overall state of the economy — one of the most highly centralized in Eastern Europe under Ceausescu . |
| 22 | A lack of finance in the budget for a busy season of overseas competition was put forward as the major factor in the composition of the team . |
| 23 | Alexander was convinced that many of our tensions are caused by a lack of interest in the present . |
| 24 | While recognising a variety of emphases and ideological leanings , Young suggests some common characteristics of these writers : a lack of interest in the causes of crime — or even opposition in the case of proposed social causes ; a voluntaristic , rather than deterministic , view of human action ; a belief in the effectiveness of deterrence . |
| 25 | On the other hand , churches with poor workmanship , of small size , and altered rather than rebuilt , may well indicate poor localities , or a lack of interest in the church . |
| 26 | Also on Dec. 20 the general view was expressed within the TNC that the scene was now set for the major effort necessary to secure a substantial result over the next 11 months , although both within the TNC and ( on Dec. 19-20 ) within the Group of Negotiations on Goods ( GNG ) various participants voiced concern at a lack of balance in the progress achieved in certain negotiating groups , at developments in the market access groups ( especially relating to tariff reductions ) and at the devotion of insufficient attention to development issues in many parts of the negotiations . |
| 27 | But , as the figure also shows , the dose of LiCl used was sufficient to produce an almost total aversion in the subjects naive to the CS , and thus a difference between the groups might have been obscured by a ‘ floor effect ’ — by a lack of sensitivity in the test ( see also Misanin , Blatt , and Hindenliter 1985 ) . |
| 28 | Mr Keith Vaz , a Labour member of the committee said : ‘ There is still a lack of confidence in the police force among black and Asian people . |
| 29 | Such experiences have led to a lack of confidence in the possibility of resolving problems . |
| 30 | A constant need to control other people normally arises from deep insecurity and a lack of confidence in the self — a fear of being left and disbelief in the self being lovable . |