Example sentences of "lack of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had a lack of esteem for actors and an actor 's life , ’ said Robert Hardy , ‘ but he liked the parts . ’ |
| 2 | They do not receive the education of the middle class : hence their differences , the lack of esteem for the countryman , his vigorous desire to escape from the oppression of this contempt . |
| 3 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
| 4 | The fact is that many still fall on the way , due to lack of provision for maternity leave and child care — among other problems . |
| 5 | I am depressed by the lack of provision for small children , because although we have things like the Equal Opportunities Commission and the S S R C funding , very generously research into what they call women 's under-achievement , educationally and occupationally and so on , that does n't seem to be the area in which things ought to be being done . |
| 6 | Functionalist Marxists continue to insist that rational comprehensive planning is only possible under socialism , despite a complete lack of evidence for this judgement in the operation of planning in the Soviet Union or its allied states ( Nove , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | There is no lack of evidence for the litigious nature of the pre-industrial population over sexual matters . |
| 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 | The general lack of support for DRA products and the difficulty of establishing overall policies which discriminate in favour of disadvantaged areas add to other factors which constrain agricultural development in DRAs . |
| 10 | Such efforts merely demonstrated a lack of support for Husayn and the depth of commitment to the PLO despite its weakness . |
| 11 | In two cases the lack of support for the bearings has caused the beam above to drop , by 35 mm . |
| 12 | Lack of support for the Scottish Nationalists , says Brian Wilson , has confounded both pundits and parties alike |
| 13 | NORTH OF THE BORDER The Union strikes back Lack of support for the Scottish Nationalists , says Brian Wilson , has confounded both pundits and parties alike |
| 14 | Ironically , it was his brother Robert , angered by Anselm 's lack of support for his evidently just case , who counselled this truculent attitude . |
| 15 | SmartStream 's biggest drawback is its lack of support for IBM Corp mid-range AS/400 and RS/6000 systems . |
| 16 | Not only has there been strong opposition to trade unionism and lack of support for union security at enterprise level by employers ( particularly those in small , paternalistic firms ) but trade unions have also not regarded the negotiation of agreements and protection of immediate job interests — certainly at plant level — as their central concern . |
| 17 | In the event , Tyndale 's unorthodox beliefs and his lack of support for the annulment prevented him from having any direct impact on royal policy . |
| 18 | Lack of support for mainstream teachers is not only reflected through inadequate training . |
| 19 | Such a view ignores the combined impact of adversarial divorce courts , lack of support for separating couples going through loss and change , lack of awareness of different roles and responsibilities of step-parents , lack of recognition of step-families in legal or welfare systems , and the negative image of step-families , all of which have contributed to the difficulties of remarriage and a rising re-divorce rate . |
| 20 | Included in this overview have been the campaigns against the Thorsen film and James Kirkup 's poem in Gay News , where blasphemy was the central explicit issue ; Mrs Whitehouse 's criticism of television , in particular the BBC 's supposed bias toward ‘ South Bank ’ theology , and Till Death Us Do Part 's irreverence towards Christianity ; the perceived lack of support for the NVALA from Church leaders . |
| 21 | DEC has decided to withdraw from exhibiting at the London Open Systems Show the first week in November , saying that it is worried about lack of support for the event . |
| 22 | SmartStream 's biggest drawback is its lack of support for IBM mid-range AS/400 and RS-6000 systems . |
| 23 | The sit-in , which forced lecturers to stay at home , was a protest at the lack of support for student accommodation and the pressure on the polytechnic system . |
| 24 | The work on which much of this chapter was based ( Griffiths and Johnston , 1991 ) was oriented towards answering a geographical question concerning the relative lack of support for the 1984–5 NUM strike in Nottinghamshire . |
| 25 | As many observed at the time , the question could have similarly been asked nearly fifty years earlier with regard to the relative lack of support for the 1926 General Strike in the same county : as Sunley ( 1990 ) describes the two geographies , they have ‘ striking parallels ’ . |
| 26 | Now the Government choose to blame the European Commission instead of putting the blame where it rightly lies — on their own lack of support for the project . |
| 27 | Resignation of Yeltsin — Lack of support for Democratic Platform walkout |
| 28 | Alluding to this lack of support for a walkout , Gorbachev in his closing speech to the congress on July 13 insisted : " Those who hoped this congress would be the funeral of the Communist Party have been proved wrong . |
| 29 | Yury Prokofyev , leader of the Moscow party organization , and Shenin resigned from the politburo on Aug. 22 , in protest against its lack of support for the SCSE . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the conspicuous lack of support for equal opportunities from the Scottish Law Society is galvanising the Glasgow-based Association of Women Solicitors ( SAWS ) . |