Example sentences of "because [pers pn] lack [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Because she lacked academic qualifications , Miss Green never conducted a Tutorial Class , but she revelled in her Terminal and , less frequently , One-Year courses .
2 Second , about the same time , there was a view in Europe that non-Europeans were mentally degenerate because they lacked Western culture .
3 ‘ Certain scholars have reservations about the kind of exhibitions she did because they lack factual perspective ’ , says Harold Koda , ‘ but in terms of a larger concept of truth , she captured the truth of fashion ’ .
4 Politicians often lose touch with the people because they lack intimate constituency contact .
5 Even when this was not the overt purpose , research results have been used to justify particular aspects of women 's subordination : thus even today it is sometimes said that girls do n't become engineers because they lack spatial ability , or that their relative lack of aggression makes them less effective leaders .
6 A demand for a reduction in public expenditure can mean that the weaker services suffer because they lack powerful support groups .
7 And 2,000,000 refugees in all the former Yugoslav republics are at risk because they lack proper food and shelter .
8 These sentences seem unnatural perhaps because they lack short words like in and the and because consequently their rhythmic foot structure is irregular .
9 But it still makes me angry to know that in other countries so many children die , so many families are bereaved , simply because they lack basic health care .
10 Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e.
11 But our system is defective because it lacks coherent principles for reviewing the substance of decisions .
12 There is no iron in the new faith because it lacks personal conviction .
13 The ‘ democratic-participant ’ media theory is also the result of recent debates on media issues though this theory is ‘ difficult to formulate , partly because it lacks full legitimation and incorporation into media institutions and partly because some of its tenets are … to be found ’ elsewhere .
14 Skimmed milk is not suitable for the under-fives because it lacks important vitamins and energy-giving calories but semi-skimmed milk can be introduced from the age of two , if your child is eating a variety of foods .
15 On the one hand , the Bhatta-Mimamsaka school argued that time is perceptible , whereas their Nyaya-Vaiseka opponents claimed that it is only an inferred concept because it lacks sensible qualities , such as colour , form , etc .
16 A dismissal may be unfair either because it was procedurally arbitrary or because it lacked good cause .
17 This was the case in the Weimar Republic , where the parliament , although endowed with strong formal powers , was vulnerable because it lacked public support .
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