Example sentences of "lack of [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 2 | In all cases reported , the lesions consisted in a defect resulting in lack of transcription of the mRNA encoded by these genes ( 8–10 ) . |
| 3 | Among them was a lack of warning of the pain of inflammation in other organs . |
| 4 | To coincide with his latest visit to Europe , Amnesty released a document outlining the apparent lack of accountability of the security forces . |
| 5 | The very form demonstrates that they can not be due to wind blast and the lack of polishing of the rocks as well as the equal development of undercutting of rocks in all directions suggests that a directional agency such as wind is not responsible . |
| 6 | There is a lack of discussion of the complex institutional conflicts within the state and their impact on policy formulation and implementation . |
| 7 | This frequently accounts for an apparent lack of appetite of the power-tool . |
| 8 | An authoritarian stance is taken to be evidence of the younger staffs lack of experience of the harsh realities of industrial and agricultural life which has denied them the appreciation of the ‘ insider ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Their emergency planning was very good , ’ he said , ‘ but the lack of experience of the Chinese showed up in their preparedness and their procedures showed they are still at the development stage in their nuclear programme . |
| 10 | He is aware that the BMA has expressed considerable reservations about the enforcement of the levels and about the legislation , particularly given the lack of experience of the transport police in administering the law in respect of railway staff . |
| 11 | Turning to the relationship between direct land-users and conservation agents , lack of participation of the former has been attributed to governments not involving the people in the design and implementation of the project . |
| 12 | Sportsmen who believe themselves to be blessed with natural advantages , after being told so by others , become depressed by the lack of success of the magnitude they had come to expect after being fed the natural ability line . |
| 13 | These factors may have contributed markedly to the relative lack of success of the minor marriages . |
| 14 | Both were now overshadowed by the superior power of Russia , a fact which was driven home by the general lack of success of the Swedish fleet in the war of 1788–90 with her great eastern neighbour . |
| 15 | In 1357 the clerical author of the short De miserabili statu regni Francie , reflecting upon the disaster of Poitiers , praised the courage of the king , John II , who had fought bravely up to the very moment of his capture , but condemned in strong terms the failure and lack of heart of the nobility , the ‘ duces belli ’ who had failed in their obligation to the French state . |
| 16 | The relative lack of resonance of the boycott can only have indicated to Hitler that he had been right to keep a fairly low public profile on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 17 | Secondly the deliveries of the equipment from the equipment suppliers who had been selected er generally fell behind the promises which they had made , so the main reason for the technical delays has been lack of equipment of the correct standard to proceed with the integration programme erm the erm the problems which beset the programme in nineteen ninety two after the German minister started questioning its future clearly had a direct bearing on that because many of the equipment suppliers , particularly those in Germany , suddenly began to think hey this programme is not going anywhere , why should we invest a lot of effort and and money into it and they slowed down so that has had a knock on effect in in terms of delaying the total programme and erm the result of all of that has been that the current development programme schedule which we have supplied to the committee is probably about as fast as the programme is capable of running . |
| 18 | Will local partners help to overcome the company 's lack of knowledge of the market ? |
| 19 | ‘ We would probably have been fleeced by some estate agents who would have smelled our lack of knowledge of the market a mile off . |
| 20 | A lack of knowledge of the mechanics of the council may prejudice the success of a good proposal . |
| 21 | Some of his biology is not too sound ; his statement that the gulls of the northern hemisphere may be exceptional — ‘ In the majority of species such gradual variation is not seen , and all the members are equally interfertile ’ — seems based on a plentiful lack of knowledge of the work that has been done on geographical variation in many groups of animals , including birds . |
| 22 | What follows from this is alienation from our fellow men because of our lack of knowledge of the nature of the true Self in others . |
| 23 | We believe this arises out of a lack of knowledge of the nature of BSL , together with the factors described as social and psychological distance which , when producing significant effects , predict the creation of some pidgin form . |
| 24 | In summary , the performance of pupils in the sample on measurement questions was affected by three principal factors : ( i ) difficulties with decimals ; ( ii ) lack of knowledge of the relationships between units of the same measure ; ( iii ) lack of general knowledge about the value of a measure for everyday objects . |
| 25 | No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law . |
| 26 | There was general lack of knowledge of the housing needs of disabled people . |
| 27 | But the advent of the Nationalists , though hard to analyse , did suggest that there were votes to be won or lost , at least in Scotland and Wales , on the public 's sense of remoteness from decision-taking or its lack of knowledge of the existing degree of devolution to the Scottish and Welsh Offices and on the general confusion as to which body was responsible for what . |
| 28 | The approach also shows a lack of knowledge of the reasons why general practitioners refer patients to dermatologists . |
| 29 | Bayes 's tentative solution to the problem involves assuming that the lack of knowledge of the probability about which an inference is to be made may be represented by a uniform probability distribution , for which he gives an ingenious argument . |
| 30 | Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work . |