Example sentences of "to lack [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticisms by parents ranged from sweets at supermarket checkouts to lack of toilets , changing facilities and unfriendly staff . |
| 2 | It would deal with wasteful prescribing and wide variations in performance to be found between one hospital and another , which could not be put down simply to lack of resources , he said . |
| 3 | Due to lack of resources , no further studies of this sort have been carried out as yet . |
| 4 | Over time , concessions have been made to incontinence , lack of mobility and degrees of mental frailty , but these have happened due to lack of resources elsewhere , as much as a response to carefully assessed needs of elderly people and their carers within clear objectives for residential care . |
| 5 | Open space has come under immense pressures from developments such as housing and road building , or neglected due to lack of resources . |
| 6 | Due to lack of resources there are only three such craft in existence . |
| 7 | A LEISURE club for the over 50s which opened three months ago is to close next week due to lack of members . |
| 8 | The enemy 's withdrawal was probably due to lack of supplies , for they also had to bring food into the mountains . |
| 9 | This was due , not to lack of discoveries but to a disinclination by the oil companies to invest the huge sums necessary to develop discoveries because of the onerous terms of the UK fiscal regime . |
| 10 | At Slotermeer , a suburb of Amsterdam , a large park remained unfinished due to lack of funds . |
| 11 | This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds . |
| 12 | The bi-monthly scholarly journal , founded in Los Angeles in 1973 , suspended publication in 1978 owing to lack of funds . |
| 13 | He pointed to a high percentage of private buyers , willing to spend on top quality pieces while French trade purchasers were conspicuously absent due to lack of funds . |
| 14 | Owing to lack of funds it was decided in 1902 that " the question of a National Home for the poor aged deaf must be left in abeyance until more funds became available " . |
| 15 | The charity for the elderly has been forced to reduce some of its activities at Whyte House on the Waterside due to lack of funds . |
| 16 | It expressed concern , however , that UN bodies had been unable to carry out measures mandated for the 1988-89 biennium due to lack of funds . |
| 17 | She had previously benefitted from a credit and loan scheme , but had been unable to continue due to lack of funds . |
| 18 | The project has now been cancelled , despite continuing support from local politicians , due both to lack of funds and studies which showed that it would operate at only 25 per cent of capacity in winter , when electricity demand is highest . |
| 19 | Yeah , due to lack of funds |
| 20 | One eyewitness noted seeing tailwheel tyres stuffed with straw due to lack of spares , and a pilot with the ripcord pull-ring on his parachute replaced with a piece of bent wire ! |
| 21 | If you have to go somewhere else due to lack of facilities that is the next step , otherwise you are pretty well set . |
| 22 | It is not that they are not capable of competing ; it is simply that there have been no great black performers in these areas in history ( due to lack of opportunities and facilities ) and no tradition exists . |