Example sentences of "lack [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policies may have among their goals objectives that lack support in the community . |
| 2 | Frustrated by his colleagues ' lack attention to the problems of literacy , partly because of their tradition of studying ‘ pre-literate ’ societies , Goody has attempted in a number of articles and books ( 1963 , 1968. 1977 ) to describe the importance and ‘ potentialities ’ of writing . |
| 3 | Lack confidence in making a case . |
| 4 | It is not that students , or staff for that matter , lack ideas for what might be possible . |
| 5 | On the other hand in the Lepidoptera and other Panorpoid orders the prolegs appear to have arisen independently in each group , they are absent or lack muscles in the more primitive Panorpoids , and only in the Lepidoptera do they become important locomotor structures ( Hinton , 1955 ) . |
| 6 | Some still have dormitories , lack space for pleasant sitting rooms and have poor staff accommodation . |
| 7 | Gipps et al ( 1983 ) report little concern amongst primary school headteachers about adverse effects , though the programmes themselves lack clarity of purpose and use . |
| 8 | Connections between schools and the post-school system which have developed over many years lack simpleness of planning . |
| 9 | Such analyses demonstrate that many of the orderings between one level and the next , now imposed by law on all children , lack justification in the logic of the subject or the facts of learning . |
| 10 | Finally , MPs lack information about future economic prospects . |
| 11 | ‘ To date we have amassed large amounts of official information but lack material of a more personal note , ’ says 37-year-old Mr Stewart , whose great-grandfather and three great-uncles fought in the war , two uncles being killed in action . |
| 12 | I have seen many doctors who , sadly , lack sensitivity in dealing with this issue . |