Example sentences of "[pron] lack the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are cases , as we have seen , in which dispositions which lack the standard forms of wording are interpreted as trusts ; the construal of a trust depends therefore not on form but intention . |
| 2 | Associated with Proconsul are a number of less well known fossil primate taxa , many of which are inferred as being hominoid but which lack the necessary body parts to be sure . |
| 3 | Social groups which lack the civic skills to represent their own interests are particularly vulnerable to neglect by decentralizing agencies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While the then UK Environment Secretary Chris Patten claimed that importing toxic waste prevented it being dumped in less industrialized countries which lacked the appropriate waste disposal technology , Greenpeace said that 80 per cent of the waste came from highly developed countries such as Switzerland , Belgium and the Netherlands . |
| 6 | But the walnut used was native English wood which lacks the dark markings of the Grenoble variety . |
| 7 | Recovering my composure , if not much dignity , I followed the bird through the trees and came on a female ( which lacks the long plumes and has a chestnut back and tail ) which appeared to be nest-building almost above our heads . |
| 8 | CD2 , LFA-3 and BCM1 form a subgroup of the IgSF ; the extracellular regions of these molecules are predicted to consist of two IgSF domains , the first of which lacks the canonical disulphide bond . |
| 9 | Indeed , Terence Hawkes has defined and defended what he calls ‘ paperback research ’ as a proper activity for those who lack the scholarly resources of the ancient universities . |
| 10 | Mature students who lack the requisite O-levels or GCSEs can opt to sit an alternative entrance test , although there is some confusion over the purpose of such tests . |
| 11 | The six-year course ( intended principally for non-Science pupils at school ) is provided for well-qualified students who lack the requisite subjects for entry to the five-year course ( see the Table of Admissions Requirements ) . |
| 12 | They make nonsense of the aspirations of developing countries , who not only lack the funds available to some American schools in the 1960s but who lack the meagre finances spared to education in Britain in her declining 19705 . |
| 13 | Louise frowned impatiently as Constance said , ‘ I suppose she lacked the maternal instinct . |
| 14 | You lacked the necessary ruthlessness , |
| 15 | The film 's director was equally determined that this consultant who lacked the necessary card from the actors ' union should not appear on celluloid . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Before that , I was heart-free , a somewhat studious fellow , I suppose , who lacked the merry nature of his younger brother . |
| 18 | The wordsmiths who put wooden jokes into his speeches are writing for a man who lacks the essential sense of timing for making them . |
| 19 | But the picture can be modified if we insert into it the concept of a primeval Natural Man , who lacks the corrupting appurtenances of modern civilization , and is , on that account , closer to Paradise than ourselves . |
| 20 | She lacks the bare surprise of her own real features : the solid cheekbones ruddy with tiny veins in the cold , the wideness of her mouth , the black slant of her eyes , the strong patrician nose . |
| 21 | The female is a paler version , and she lacks the dorsal spike and coloured patch in the pectoral fin . |
| 22 | Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ? |
| 23 | Sometimes , particularly if we lack the formal rituals of grief , the healing of the bereavement process gets stuck . |
| 24 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 25 | Since they lacked the necessary cash , the government would be obliged to furnish them with credit . |
| 26 | More significantly , they lacked the personal conviction necessary to argue for the ‘ balanced ’ curriculum for the younger pupils . |
| 27 | Perhaps they lacked the ideological baggage , or even the intellectual equipment , to recognize the type of mentality which lay behind the smiles and jokes . |
| 28 | First year university students are often left bewildered by the challenge of having to organise much of their study time and find they lack the necessary reference skills to work effectively . |
| 29 | They lack the Catholic sense that it is scriptures together with the unfolding tradition of the church in which authority lies . |
| 30 | They lack the superficial coherence of a written constitution , but they bear a much closer relation to reality than bright ideas on a piece of paper . |