Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by lack [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The school parties stuck as rigidly together as they had done upon Victoria Station , lacking only their uniforms and labels , disastrously hampered by lack of space .
2 So far much hampered by lack of money and staff about 1.5 million catalogue entries have been completed and 2,665,000 photographs produced .
3 Those who believe that such insistence would ‘ infringe civil liberties ’ should appreciate that this liberty is valueless if wise judgment is so impaired by lack of insight that sufferers from the underlying illness can use this liberty only to their detriment .
4 Add to the beast 's problems that it was already enfeebled by lack of nutrition , and one can see that its chances of survival were really pretty low .
5 When the rain was falling and the sky was overcast the number of men on watch at night had had to be doubled , men already exhausted by lack of food and the interminable restoration of the ramparts .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The scope of the economic analysis of the immediate impact of the land reform period is further limited by lack of statistics .
9 Which ? has been in the information business for 33 years , but is still hampered by lack of any freedom of information legislation comparable with that in the United States .
10 There is evidence to suggest that young swains showed interest from time to time but were probably defeated by lack of time and opportunity on the one hand and by Hannah 's shy , reserved nature on the other .
11 After World War I its activities were severely limited by lack of funds and its inability to recruit good personnel .
12 In doing so it saves the dieter from the common curse of constipation , mainly caused by lack of bulk in normal slimming diets .
13 Learning is a strategy that is potentially available , but its use is often prohibited by lack of time and money .
14 Contrast this with the woodwind who often seem to be fighting gamely against insubordinate instruments and recalcitrant reeds , their difficulties surely exacerbated by lack of contact with the West , where orchestral wind playing has gone from strength to strength .
15 Formulae are often heavily constrained by lack of available data at the Local Authority level , which could be remedied at some cost through the ‘ Resource Allocation Survey ’ which is later advocated .
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