Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pos pn] lack of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My poor mother , I am sure , could n't determine whether to commend my prudence or berate me for my lack of romance . |
| 2 | To compensate them for their lack of space , Chavez had paid for all the prisoners ' food and provided new plumbing and electricity . |
| 3 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 4 | Only de Valera 's personal intervention convinced them of their lack of perception and judgement . |
| 5 | Punctuality was by way of being an obsession — although once he missed a recording session with Barry Took altogether and all but flayed himself for his lack of professionalism . |
| 6 | The woman had taunted him for his lack of passion and forthrightness and she had walked off with one of the young dockers . |
| 7 | Bridget had n't been exaggerating when she warned her of his lack of discretion . |
| 8 | " One look at me now would convince anyone of your lack of restraint . " |
| 9 | Wolfgang took the advice of his Mannheim friends — who professed themselves as disappointed as he on his lack of success — and decided to stay on until the spring , moving to cheaper lodgings and taking on a few pupils to earn money . |