Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] lack of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Verdun had a long history : it was an important city in Roman times ; Vauban , the great fortress builder of Louis XIV 's reign , had fortified it with ditches and bastions ; in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 Verdun had withstood a siege of 10 weeks , falling only through lack of supplies . |
| 2 | Perhaps for lack of alternatives , the left in both countries is gambling on being allowed to fight fair elections , to take power if they win , and then to be able to implement real reforms in government . |
| 3 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 4 | In the meanwhile , the British system devised by Lord Waverley forty years ago to retain the works of art most essential to Britian 's artistic and historical heritage will be a largely pointless administrative hoop-la as works of art are declared to be national patrimony by the committees of experts , and then are exported anyway for lack of funds . |
| 5 | There would be no need for patients to be turned away through lack of beds . |
| 6 | The inner cities — especially London — are very badly hit and some children have had to be sent home for lack of teachers . |
| 7 | I 've always been a d-i-y enthusiast , but it 's been more through lack of funds than genuine enthusiasm — not exactly a good basis for totally renovating a derelict house . |
| 8 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 9 | The project has now been cancelled , despite continuing support from local politicians , due both to lack of funds and studies which showed that it would operate at only 25 per cent of capacity in winter , when electricity demand is highest . |
| 10 | Productivity is generally low in both still- and running-water habitats , limited mainly by lack of nutrients . |
| 11 | Will you help the Pope 's SOCIETY OF ST PETER APOSTLE to ensure that these vocations are not lost simply through lack of funds ? |
| 12 | The Bolsheviks at least promised to tackle regional socio-economic backwardness , and their bureaucratic intervention in the localities was at first less oppressive in some ways than in the Tsarist past simply for lack of personnel . |
| 13 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 14 | It would deal with wasteful prescribing and wide variations in performance to be found between one hospital and another , which could not be put down simply to lack of resources , he said . |
| 15 | Yet for lack of personnel , funds , and initiative , Bolshevik Party members were not making sufficient capital out of the situation . |