Example sentences of "[pron] lack [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres . |
| 2 | In the past women 's capacity to give assistance was even more constrained than it is now , by their lack of control over financial resources . |
| 3 | Several factors point to the differences in the experience of unemployment : women 's position in the labour market and access to occupational benefits ; their domestic roles and the dominant familial ideology ; their lack of control over household resources ; their problematic identification with the ‘ unemployed status ’ ; and their treatment by the DSS , Jobcentres , the Benefits Agency , Training and Enterprise Councils and the Training , Enterprise and Employment Directorate of the Department of Employment . |
| 4 | The precipitants to these outbursts were trivial and she was alarmed at both the extent of her anger and her lack of control over it . |
| 5 | Disapproval of the government was compounded by its lack of clarity over plans to rebuild the mosque . |
| 6 | The formal proletariat is defined by its lack of control over both the means of production and the labour of others ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 7 | If a third party has harmed the child , therefore , the statutory criteria will only be met if a reasonable parent would have acted to prevent the harm or was unable to do so because of his lack of control over the child . |