Example sentences of "[prep] lack of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would like to develop training areas which would help offset the problems of lack of mobility of staff … regretfully none of our posts are supernumerary and hence the problems of removing staff from their work to attend training is a real difficulty ’ … |
| 2 | Last summer , he surrendered to Pakistani authorities for an investigation , but he was freed on bail three months later because of lack of evidence . |
| 3 | And , although a file was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service , no action will be taken because of lack of evidence . |
| 4 | Prosecutor Smither Thiara said : ‘ The charge has been dropped because of lack of evidence . ’ |
| 5 | Even if the law is clear , the case may be difficult because of lack of evidence . |
| 6 | Since an examination of the first of these is the purpose of the following chapters , and an examination of the third impossible because , as suggested , of lack of evidence , one need turn here only to an examination of the second class . |
| 7 | He showed her a letter from the CPS saying proceedings against him had been discontinued because of lack of evidence . |
| 8 | Among seven who were recaptured was Carlos Pino Molina who , together with Luis Melo Mendoza , was granted unconditional freedom by a judge one week later on grounds of lack of evidence for the case against them . |
| 9 | Kiprono Nicholas K. Biwott , dismissed in November as Minister of Industry , and Hezekiah Oyugi , dismissed in October as Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President and chief of state security , were released on the same day because of lack of evidence . |
| 10 | The DPP will face one of 4 choices , not to proceed because of lack of evidence , not to proceed because it 's deemed not to be in the public interest , to issue a caution , or to sanction a prosecution . |
| 11 | The case against a schoolboy accused of setting fire to a teenage girl while she inhaled an aerosol spray has collapsed because of lack of evidence . |
| 12 | A 19 year old man was charged but the case was later dropped because of lack of evidence . |
| 13 | On March 21 , 1991 , proposals that the President should be directly elected , that the voting age should be lowered from 21 to 18 , and that the number of seats in the Grand National Assembly should be increased from 450 to 600 were presented by Özal , in spite of lack of support from some factions within the ANAP . |
| 14 | But Brockweir school in the Forest of Dean did close , because of lack of support , although some parents are now petitioning the county council to sell it to them so it can re-open . |
| 15 | Includes discussion of lack of awareness amongst older people of means to help save energy . |
| 16 | This is not a competition for the Nobel prize for literature but a protection against potential accusations of lack of clarity . |
| 17 | Erm , you 've apparent problems of lack of clarity , well that 's absolutely normal erm , but they 've built into the system . |
| 18 | JTR made merry at Gress where breakfast was waiting and congenial company took him along the coastline to caves that , because of lack of stamina on my part , were never redrawn . |
| 19 | A total of $100,000,000 in aid had been frozen by the US administration in May because of lack of progress on the compensation of US citizens for property seized by the former Sandinista regime [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 20 | The most common of the behaviours in Table 1.1 , forgetting which gear you are in , appears to be an example of lack of memory for a task at the operational level which is normally performed automatically . |
| 21 | These causes of failure are attributed to ‘ problems at the top ’ , although of course these must be linked to problems further down , particularly of lack of participation of local people , inappropriate conservation measures , local enforcement and so on . |
| 22 | Townsend 's most important definition of poverty which emphasizes that lack of money leads to in inability to join in fully in social life , producing in exclusion of individuals and social groups from ordinary life , focuses crucially on the role of lack of participation and powerlessness in the social construction of the ‘ poor ’ . |
| 23 | Since severe visual handicap , especially total blindness , has a low incidence among school-aged children in the United Kingdom , it is likely that there will be very few children in each local education authority whose education requires significant adaptation as a result of lack of sight or substantially defective vision . |
| 24 | ‘ At the moment he is enormously overweight because of lack of exercise , ’ says Michael . |
| 25 | To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience . |
| 26 | We are not denying that in the case of an alien culture one has less right to criticize than in one 's own , out of lack of experience of what it can be like to live in it . |
| 27 | As the examination of the Holland Report data indicates , the problem which young people have in the labour market reflects the age-related issue of lack of experience . |
| 28 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 29 | Many reported the impossibility of securing employment because of lack of experience — with the jobless total so high employers are making a priority of taking on people with experience who do not require subsequent training . |
| 30 | A further improvement could be an approved panel of investment business auditors , although this would mean potential members of the panel would be excluded because of lack of experience , and they would not be provided with the chance of obtaining it . |