Example sentences of "[art] almost [adj] lack [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The almost complete lack of response , one way or the other , from the Masai , only seems to have encouraged these fantasies , because it provided an environment in which fantasy was rarely tested against reality . |
| 2 | A study by Jones ( Jones , 1983 ) provides detailed evidence on the almost complete lack of communication between examination boards and employers and on the uninformed and arbitrary way in which employers use qualifications . |
| 3 | Judged on the attendance , the almost complete lack of sectarianism , the productive political discussion in the workshops , and the constructive criticism , the event was more of a success than we had ever dared hope for . |
| 4 | In architectural terms this is evidenced in the smaller , narrower windows , lack of intricate tracery or coloured glass , the almost total lack of development of the flying buttress system , the poverty of decoration in sculpture and carving . |
| 5 | It was designed to be used when knitting pile and drive lace — though I suspect from the almost total lack of drive lace and pile garments that I 've seen , or rather not seen , that is used at all it 's mainly with the rib transfer carriage ! |
| 6 | To judge from the very wide circulation of the decisions on these details , in contrast to the almost total lack of circulation of the earlier decrees , this concentration of effort was the right policy ; but it took at least another two generations before the aim , which Anselm in 1102 had been confident could quickly be reached , was achieved . |
| 7 | Despite the defeat of the current plotters , the main danger to the government was of another coup attempt , which was seen by many as almost inevitable , given the high level of politicization within the armed forces , the almost total lack of respect for the Constitution , and the inability of the President to move decisively and quickly enough against the disaffected elements . |
| 8 | The members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ( founded 1838 ) were invited to submit diseased animals to the College , but this met with an almost complete lack of response . |
| 9 | The harder they are blown the more will the horns and tuba part company , until in ff there is an almost complete lack of blend . |
| 10 | As a result of the secrecy which has traditionally surrounded donor insemination there is an almost complete lack of knowledge of how donor assisted families fare as the children grow up . |
| 11 | Also , the USA exported its long experience with trying to deal with its own soil erosion problems , as a part of foreign policy to its sphere of influence in Latin America in the 1950s , where there had been an almost complete lack of government concern over soil erosion . |
| 12 | From what seems now like an almost total lack of concern when the news of the virus first reached the organization , there is currently a major emphasis within the organization and a constant campaign of re-education of both callers and volunteers . |
| 13 | Here there is an almost total lack of communication between our politicians and the mass of the British people . |
| 14 | His Education Survey 2 Drama ( 1967 ) , totally lacking in officialese , lucidly , wittily reports on a rag-bag of activities done in the name of drama and with an almost total lack of rationale behind the subject . |
| 15 | As most similar opinion polls show , there is an almost total lack of consensus , both on the unionist and nationalist sides . |
| 16 | They showed ‘ an almost total lack of awareness ’ of the roles of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons in producing ground-level ozone . |
| 17 | When in 1937 Mussolini , like Hitler , intervened in support of Franco in the Spanish Civil War , and again when he annexed Libya in October 1938 , the ordinary inhabitants of Fontanellato showed an almost total lack of interest ; principally , again , because none of them were involved . |