Example sentences of "[coord] lack of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we look at our relationships with others , we merely see a reflection of our love ( or lack of love ) for ourselves . |
| 2 | Now , I 'm not a sociologist but I would say i it meant that children without both were more prone to trouble , or more prone to erm lack of parental control or lack of love , care there has , I mean somebody can draw a a conclusion from that , but barely fifty ! |
| 3 | With a lover , a wife , when you find the worst — be it infidelity or lack of love , madness or the suicidal spark — you are almost relieved . |
| 4 | or lack of success in dealing with the Irish question ? |
| 5 | The primary concern of the story in Numbers 20 is not with God 's supplying the water , but with Moses ' and Aaron 's disobedience or lack of faith , and their being barred from entering the Promised Land . |
| 6 | There is also a certain amount of secrecy , or lack of communication , about vertical arrangements more generally . |
| 7 | Fear of the idea 's theft , lack of time , or lack of incentives may also be deterrents to the idea originator . |
| 8 | The first is Mrs Whitehouse 's relationship with , and attitude toward , the Church , and in particular the Church leaders ' response , or lack of response , to the claimed blasphemy of the poem , in contrast to the Church 's response in the Thorsen case . |
| 9 | One of the most critical problems for organizations in designing well and competitively is their response or lack of response to change and , more specifically , to rates of change in markets ' technical and economic conditions . |
| 10 | The Critical Lawyers Group has suggested the establishment of a Public Law Project which would provide assistance in matters relating to public law to people who have little or no access to such assistance , due to their social disadvantage or lack of income . |
| 11 | Relevant factors underlying these variations are linguistic , ethnic or cultural identity , discrimination on the part of the host community , mobility or lack of mobility and economic differentiation . |
| 12 | Not only do we have the situation in the UK where partial-hearing units ( PHUs — integrated settings ) are using Total Communication ( e.g. Hegarty , Pocklington and Lucas , 1982 ) , but young deaf people do not see the use of BSL as a function of their contact or lack of contact with hearing people . |
| 13 | I certainly did nt see any mistakes or lack of marking etc . |
| 14 | In turn , members of the innovatory networks identified individual managers or particular functions whose overt opposition to , or lack of enthusiasm for the change strategy seriously hindered its progress . |
| 15 | In any case , such approaches could scarcely be adopted in existing residential areas , because of high cost , the unsuitable arrangements of roads , or lack of space . |
| 16 | If we look at the evidence of Roberts 's study of Lancashire households between 1890 and 1940 , we see that the various categories of kin who co-resided included : unmarried daughters living with parents ; unmarried brothers and sisters living with a married sibling ; orphaned children ; children whose parents were still alive , but who had gone to live with relatives because of parental poverty or lack of space in the parental household ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 72–7 ) . |
| 17 | This may be due to not running Restore or lack of space on Storage Media . |
| 18 | Pharmacists should lead in actively encouraging patients to report side effects , or lack of treatment success , and either resolve the problem or inform the prescriber . |
| 19 | The problem of discussing quasi-government is further complicated , as Doig ( 1979 , p. 311 ) notes , ‘ by the fact that there is no one characteristic , or lack of characteristic , that distinguishes quangos or non-departmental public bodies from other organisations in the structure of government ’ . |
| 20 | Sombro was presenting a common behaviour problem for male dogs , and it was nothing to do with high-strung pedigree breeding , failure to live up to expectations of unreasonable or over-demanding owners , or lack of freedom or space . |
| 21 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 22 | Is the media merely a tool that can be used by the dominant group in society to bring about whatever change or lack of change they require or does it , by its nature , shape the influence it has on the population ? |
| 23 | However , I am expected to maintain the image of an angling guru , and all too frequently this uncomfortable mask slips ; generally leaving me red-faced with embarrassment , furiously attempting to devise some semi-acceptable excuse for rampant stupidity or lack of skill . |
| 24 | Sufferers need to avoid stress , cold , or lack of oxygen , all of which make some of their normal blood cells turn into sickle cells . |
| 25 | Schleifer is confusing the agitation , or even prostration , which occurs in badly run holding-yards as a result of heat , noise , overcrowding , or lack of water , with the uniquely human fear of death . |
| 26 | The court is disturbed by the case , and by the procedure , or lack of procedure , by which the judge reached his decision . |
| 27 | The experience or lack of experience , of course , refers to the usage of the system itself . |
| 28 | Or lack of sleep ? |
| 29 | In practice , national or local restrictions ( or lack of restrictions ) on public spending are far more likely to influence the eventual figure reached than are formulae involving use and depreciation of stock , and the librarian may find that the most useful lever for increasing his estimates before his finance committee is his comparative position — in relation to comparable systems — in the league table of local authority bookfunds . |
| 30 | The worst sin in an engineering material is not lack of strength or lack of stiffness , desirable as these properties are , but lack of toughness , that is to say , lack of resistance to the propagation of cracks . |