Example sentences of "is missing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A runaway is a young person , aged under 17 years or in local authority care , who has either left home ( or residential care ) of their own accord but without agreement or is forced to leave , and is missing for one or more nights . |
| 2 | erm People who get the goals get the headlines do n't they erm so I 'm pleased for him erm John Durning now is missing for two games erm he misses erm Oldham and Swindon , so that 's pleasing to have Foyly back . |
| 3 | The thing is , boss , we still think something is missing at the club . |
| 4 | If a place is missing on the map which is mentioned in Domesday Book ( 1086 ) or any of the lay subsidies or poll taxes , this is a possibility for a deserted settlement . |
| 5 | Danny Wallace is missing with a hamstring injury . |
| 6 | In matrilineal societies , the father is missing as an important social figure , but there is not always a totemic system operating . |
| 7 | Hereford start at home … defender Gareth Abraham is missing through injury so youngster Craig Langford gets a chance … |
| 8 | Personal contact is missing during study hours , and the chore is a lonely one . |
| 9 | Should England win the World Cup next time round , you will undoubtedly notice that a small shard of plexiglass is missing from the said carrying case . |
| 10 | Perhaps the gearbox to transfer box oil seal is faulty , but when I check the oil levels a few weeks after filling to the correct level a small amount is missing from the main box , a much greater amount from the transfer box and the overdrive is full or near full , ? |
| 11 | Nothing human , save the mean , is missing from the stone . |
| 12 | Quite simply , the concept of agitation on civil rights , far less the creation of a movement to carry out such agitation , is missing from the documents . |
| 13 | If one or more of these features is missing from your working life , you should make it known and strive to ensure that management is committed to improving matters . |
| 14 | Gagné has provided a formula by which we may detect what is missing from a student 's repertoire . |
| 15 | All that is missing from its picturesque streets — geraniums spill from every aperture , a stream gushes from a well down an unpaved track , cattle low in shelters below the villagers ' cottages — is a cast of yokels and buxom wenches bursting into an operatic aria . |
| 16 | Notice garden gnome with little fishing rod is missing from pond . |
| 17 | Even less radical , if I 'm to stand by the comments I made last month ) ; or something that we think is missing from current trends ( something a bit retro maybe , but where 's your originality ? ) . |
| 18 | ‘ to give rise to apprehension for the safety of any person ( or property ) or ’ False reports that a person is missing from home or that a bomb is in a building ( which is more likely to be encountered in practice ) come under this point . |
| 19 | ‘ The other point which is missing from the statement is that she does not deny that her marriage to Prince Charles is in trouble . ’ |
| 20 | Second , the definition of an ESS contains a criterion for the stability of the equilibrium which is missing from the definition of Nash equilibrium . |
| 21 | This discipline is missing from the Williamson scheme ; inflation has to be controlled by setting targets for money-GDP instead . |
| 22 | The Open Software Foundation 's much-ballyhooed Distributed Management Environment technology is missing from Networx Inc 's platform list because it is not yet productised . |
| 23 | What is missing from small firms is the sense of participation in decision-making as the more intimate working relations between owners and their family result in more authoritarian demands for personal obedience . |
| 24 | A statue of St Anthony is missing from the church 's altar , and it is unclear whether the effigy of St Bonus is still there . |
| 25 | I hope it is , because the wealth of climbing routes is missing from the collomb guide and the 1977 Brailsford guide is apparently a collector 's item ! |
| 26 | Several of the photo captions are mixed up and some text is missing from pages 117–118 . |
| 27 | What is missing from the latter , and its omission is deliberate rather than accidental , is the detail and texture that comes with knowledge of particular people and particular circumstances . |
| 28 | What is missing from Wolff 's analysis , though it is present in his terminology , is the recognition of the public face , the mutuality of responsibility . |
| 29 | This algorithm assumes that for each sentence position only one of the candidates is correct ( this condition generally holds , except in cases where the correct word is missing from the list of candidates ) . |
| 30 | Potential requests ‘ focus on an element which is missing from the surface form of the prior utterance but which is ‘ potentially available ’ ' ( McTear , 1985 : 165 ) . |