Example sentences of "lack the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barnes , using all his trickery and fine distribution , began to carve Everton 's defence apart , but again Liverpool without Ian Rush lacked the final touch . |
| 2 | For all his efforts , he lacked the final touch and in the 65th minute he glanced his header wide from Holloway 's cross . |
| 3 | Just lacked the normal sense of urgency … maybe this is a deliberatle ploy by Wilko too ? |
| 4 | This is the line taken by the United States Supreme Court , which rejected the ‘ bad tendency ’ grounds for abridging freedom of expression because it lacked the all-important factor of ‘ clear and present danger ’ . |
| 5 | Firstly , the absence of any kind of derivative exchange in Germany meant that it lacked the financial culture to guarantee the successful operation of a one centre open outcry market . |
| 6 | In its origin feudalism provided for the recruitment of vitally needed cavalry troops in a society which lacked the liquid money to pay troops in cash . |
| 7 | But the local councillors in Rotherham lacked the political sophistication of their neighbouring big-city colleagues and they turned down our application to hire the room . |
| 8 | While America currently lacked the political will to tackle its trade deficit , there was increasing talk of ending free-trade access to its vast domestic market . |
| 9 | While London did not consult the Dominions much on financial matters ( though it made a public ploy of doing so ) it lacked the political will or administrative means to make the rigorous control of dollar imports practised in the UK effective in those countries . |
| 10 | Member governments continued to take a primary interest in the views of their own people , the EC was slow to make decisions and was not subject to proper democratic control , CAP was unreformed , and the Community lacked the political cohesion to act as a single ‘ force ’ in world affairs . |
| 11 | The new merchants lacked the political power to prevail . |
| 12 | Of course , Roman emperors deified themselves , made their horses consuls and existed in a state of terrifying paranoia which eventually provoked genuine plots and assassinations , but in retrospect the gross crimes of a Caligula or Nero lacked the all-pervading hypocrisy of the modern tyrants . |
| 13 | Qualitatively it lacked the professional touch , and within individual libraries it lacked planning and co-ordination . |
| 14 | More significantly , they lacked the personal conviction necessary to argue for the ‘ balanced ’ curriculum for the younger pupils . |
| 15 | The shoguns themselves lacked the personal charisma of their early predecessors and divisions within the Bakufu hierarchy and Tokugawa followers increased . |
| 16 | Three weeks later , at a time when the imperialist war thesis was very much in the ascendency , he was more specific : The French communists lacked the necessary cynicism and the capacity for political deception that would have been required to gain the maximum benefit from a dangerous diplomatic operation . |
| 17 | As Alan had to enter the site as part of his job , he lacked the necessary degree of voluntariness necessary for the defence . |
| 18 | The pro-Gamsakhurdia forces , who organized strikes and demonstrations and a media and transportation blockade of the East , were demoralized by their leader 's failure to make further public appearances , and ultimately lacked the necessary firepower to hold out against superior forces . |
| 19 | You lacked the necessary ruthlessness , |
| 20 | The film 's director was equally determined that this consultant who lacked the necessary card from the actors ' union should not appear on celluloid . |
| 21 | Since they lacked the necessary cash , the government would be obliged to furnish them with credit . |
| 22 | Both men 's views in the inter-war period were highly subjective and embittered ; both lacked the necessary detachment and sense of objective hindsight to bring the experience into proper perspective . |
| 23 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |
| 24 | However , these were generally riskier and since many savers lacked the necessary information and confidence to invest overseas , it seemed a natural role for investment trusts that they should provide an indirect route into overseas markets for small investors who would benefit from the trust 's professional management . |
| 25 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 26 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |
| 27 | Of the rest the LoProfile had most to offer but lacked the extra function keys of the Fuller . |
| 28 | ‘ And with his money tied up in the land he lacked the extra cash necessary to turn it into a paying proposition . ’ |
| 29 | so that it lacked the technical vocabulary needed to accommodate the translations of classical texts . |
| 30 | A shame-faced Camilo Luzuriaga , the film 's director , had to admit that he and his crew lacked the technical know-how to fake a death . |