Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] lack of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ … |
| 2 | A civil legal action was launched in the mid-1980s to resolve the dispute , but was halted through lack of funds . |
| 3 | Over 20 British scientific experiments due to be performed on the flight [ see also pp. 37437 ; 37932 ] were cancelled for lack of funds . |
| 4 | Is he constrained by lack of funds ? |
| 5 | The Pakistan government is hampered by lack of resources in launching any large-scale projects , and in the last 13 years less than $120 million has been ploughed into crop substitution programmes by foreign aid organisations . |
| 6 | Since then little work has been done on the loco by the small group of owners who like everyone else have been hampered by lack of funds . |
| 7 | There are now about 1,000 such groups ( up from 200 in 1987 ) and many more would love to extend their hours — but are prevented by lack of funds . |
| 8 | Last year his progress was threatened by lack of funds . |
| 9 | At the end of that month Colonel Fergusson imparted the news that the Frenchy picture at the Rotunda had closed for lack of spectators , whereas Messrs Marshall 's Peristrephic Panorama was still being shown three times a day to audiences rendered perfectly comfortable by patent stoves . |
| 10 | On Feb. 3 the government stated that 31,033 children had died from lack of medicines and food as a result of UN sanctions [ see also p. 38742 ] . |
| 11 | He rates only the Nippon Challenge and the New Zealanders ahead in his own group and feels that , although the French show promise , they are dogged by lack of funds ( it was subsequently announced that French funding by the City of Paris was likely ) . |
| 12 | On the whole the scene is quiet , quieter at least than you would expect considering that this is one of the most important wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in France , the great distributing centre for the primeurs of the astonishingly fertile and productive areas of the Vaucluse and the Comtat Venaissin. — areas which less than a hundred years ago were desperately poor , inadequately irrigated , isolated for lack of roads and transport , earthquake-stricken , devastated by blights which destroyed the cereal crops and the vines . |
| 13 | More first-hand accounts which have reached the Tibet Information Network in London have not been translated for lack of funds . |
| 14 | ‘ … have such research activities been restricted by lack of funds ? |
| 15 | In 1986 , a Ministry of Public Education document highlighted the difficulties caused by lack of funds . |
| 16 | It was exacerbated by lack of materials and books , so that the temptation to fall back on ‘ chalk and talk ’ remained , except that there was n't always any chalk . |
| 17 | Sometimes called Scotland 's Disgrace , because it was never finished for lack of funds , this fragment of a memorial to the fallen in the Napoleonic War was intended to be a facsimile of the parthenon . |
| 18 | DESPITE the massive losses incurred by lack of tenants at its Alban Gate development straddling London Wall in the City , MEPC is unlikely to be forced into talks with its bankers . |
| 19 | Both these projects were provided for in the Five Year plan current at the time but were shelved for lack of funds . |
| 20 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 21 | THE limited powers of the parish council , which are in turn further limited by lack of resources cause much frustration , said chairman Roy Downham at Alresford Parish Council 's annual meeting held in the Phair Hall of the Community Centre on Friday evening . |
| 22 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 23 | After World War I its activities were severely limited by lack of funds and its inability to recruit good personnel . |
| 24 | Investigations were then suspended for lack of police evidence , but reopened in 1987 when another judge accused the Dicomcar police intelligence directorate of being responsible . |
| 25 | There will be considerable pressure on Mr Parkinson to ensure that safety is not compromised by lack of funds , and he has promised that money would be no obstacle to improving safety . |