Example sentences of "lack [prep] [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wish I knew , ’ Peter answered with a lack of tact that made Sarella cringe . |
| 2 | It is seldom lack of ability that brings down a student who genuinely wishes to succeed . |
| 3 | ‘ These clumsy attempts to muzzle the media reveal the lack of credibility that undermines our entire political system , ’ Mr Brunner added . |
| 4 | This problem with the language of antiracism is acutely expressed by the lack of clarity that surrounds the term ‘ antiracism ’ itself . |
| 5 | And it was lack of money that stopped them going away . |
| 6 | The lack of judgement that led him to write to Routh in such a vein was Nora 's fault . |
| 7 | But she half closed her eyes , and she put her head back very slightly , and felt the shadows stir and felt the something wait , and felt the wrongness and the lack of humanity that pervaded the room sweep over her . |
| 8 | Alan Murdoch , personnel director of NCR , cited the problems which even this unusually enlightened engineering company had come up against in trying to tap this under-used management resource — an apparent lack of ambition that drives women into ‘ support ’ roles , the fact that child-bearing age co-incides with that age-span when the potential top manager is just getting up to speed , the lack of female engineering-oriented managers from which to select . |
| 9 | This brief contribution simply highlights the lack of research that has gone into the social , cultural and linguistic needs of the adult minorities . |
| 10 | When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her . |
| 11 | ‘ Mind you , ’ Sutcliffe added , ‘ I do n't think it 's just lack of funds that has kept him at home lately . |
| 12 | Macmillan was not unaware of the stresses and strains that Sandys ' Reformation had caused in Whitehall ; nor of the lack of confidence that had grown up between Sandys and his principal advisers , the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 13 | Ospreys do not nest in the Galloway lochs , although they do ‘ prospect ’ the area regularly : it seems likely that it is the lack of fish that keeps them away . |
| 14 | Far more than cold and darkness it is the lack of butterflies that makes winter dreary and interminable . |
| 15 | This suggests to me that it may not always be the lack of children that causes the distress — I 'd watched them childless , enjoying life enormously — rather , it is the realisation that biologically , they will not now be parents . |