Example sentences of "[subord] of the lack [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 2 | Because of the lack of predators , island animals are often extremely tame . |
| 3 | Partly because of the lack of predators , many island birds have lost the ability to fly ; after all , flying requires enormous energy , and on islands , those that do take to the air could in theory be blown out to sea . |
| 4 | Mr. Leggatt said that 75 percent of funerals locally were cremations — higher than the national average — and he speculated that this may be because of the lack of cemeteries in the area . |
| 5 | There is a strong ethnic community and this causes friction in the community because of the lack of jobs . |
| 6 | Men who engage in high risk sexual activity in closed institutions ( such as prisons ) are more at risk because of the lack of condoms and health education . |
| 7 | So many amputations had been necessary because of the lack of facilities for sophisticated vascular surgery . |
| 8 | In practice , there has been considerable disappointment with the new system of planning , partly because of the lack of guidelines provided by central government and partly because of the slowness and cumbersomeness of the new procedures ( Barrass 1979 ; Shaw and Williams 1982a ) . |