Example sentences of "of a lack of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to continue postgraduate studies I had applied for some financial assistance for part-time fees , under a scheme created by the Home Office and set up specifically in recognition of a lack of higher educational qualifications in the police service ( HO Circular 29/74 ) . |
| 2 | One has a strong reeling , coming away from him , of a lack of the amorous , down there somewhere . |
| 3 | Supporting Labour 's blueprint for an integrated transport system , he said : ‘ Never again must we see a Prime Minister chasing coffins and attending funerals because of a lack of proper investment in transport . |
| 4 | No one is turned away because of a lack of means . |
| 5 | No one is turned away because of a lack of means . |
| 6 | No one is turned away because of a lack of means . |
| 7 | Again , no one is turned away because of a lack of means . |
| 8 | All of that to me smacks of a lack of appreciation of the need to understand a business thoroughly , where you 're going to be involved in making major decisions . |
| 9 | In health , constipation is rare , being a reflection in many human cases of a lack of roughage in the diet . |
| 10 | It was CIPP which first recommended the abolition — announced earlier this week — of the controversial system of crime screening , by which many offences were not investigated because of a lack of evidence . |
| 11 | The men 's World Cup downhill scheduled for Saalbach-Hinterglemm on December 21 has been switched to Schladming because of a lack of snow . |
| 12 | Faldo , who has a feud-ridden history with some members of the AGW , could be forgiven for thinking that this is yet another example of a lack of sympathy with his cause . |
| 13 | Deserts are the result of a lack of water and if there is a prolonged , fluctuating drought ( like the one that began on the northern fringe of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the 1960s ) vast sums of money are not going to stop desertification . |
| 14 | Reviewing the situation at the end of the year , Lindsay Cooke , one of the Greens ' 1989 spokespeople , thought despondently that the movement 's share of the poll had shrunk because of a lack of publicity . |
| 15 | The terms of God 's condemnation encourage us also to interpret Moses ' address to the people as a cynical expression of a lack of trust in God 's power to provide the water , and to suppose that Aaron tacitly shared his disbelief . |
| 16 | Like the French and Burgundians , d'Ayala was aware of the fighting qualities of the Scots ; it was indeed , he claimed , because they preferred fighting to work that the country was poor , rather than because of a lack of natural resources . |
| 17 | Leisure centres close their doors because of a lack of sufficient funds to operate them . |
| 18 | Of so many recordings issued these days one might say , ‘ It 's perfectly good , but was it necessary ? ’ , because of a lack of character and musical insight . |
| 19 | The full potential of most biocontrol systems has not yet been realised — in the past because , perhaps , of a lack of credible interdisciplinary approaches in developing the science and a lack of commercial involvement in technological development . |
| 20 | In Wales , the otter may not be recovering from declines caused by persecution and dieldrin , because of a lack of fish due to acidification . |
| 21 | In essence , schools are often reactive and the individuals within them victims because of a lack of management skills , procedures and perspectives . |
| 22 | Whether it is a matter of a lack of knowledge on the part of indigenous cultivators and pastoralists that leads to excessive and untimely tillage , the use of improper implements , the destruction of crop residues by burning and so on , is a moot point . |
| 23 | Recent literature has not dated these classics — an indication of a lack of its ability to transcend them . |
| 24 | Problems of a lack of alternative sources of fuelwood for poor people , unequal landholdings , political constraints placed upon the pastures of nomads , poor prices imposed by the state for the produce of rural areas and so forth , tend to lie outside the terms of reference of most conservation policies . |
| 25 | Even where the government pays for the mechanical means of conservation entirely ( and thus avoids the problems of a lack of capital or labour on the part of the farmer , his inability to forgo food crops for a season , and the reduction of his perception of the risks involved even if his private resources are sufficient ) , such an act engenders apathy on the part of the farmer , who regards the work as belonging to the state ( FAO 1966 : 172 , for a project in Morocco ) . |
| 26 | I would not wish by the foregoing to convey any sense of a lack of seriousness on the contemporary Italian literary scene . |
| 27 | Others , such as those into an assault on youths in Holloway and into the ‘ crime-fixing ’ charges against Kent police , almost failed on account of a lack of sufficient police co-operation . |
| 28 | The setting up of the European environment agency has stalled because of a lack of agreement over where its headquarters should be . |
| 29 | They should not be denied atoms and molecules because of a lack of primary school laboratories . |
| 30 | They suggested that the title might be the cause of a lack of appreciation by the funders , the local authorities , of the complexity , responsibility and professionalism now required of the post holder . |