Example sentences of "[adv] missing [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He was only missing from Palace line-ups from that time as a result of injury or illness , though his playing record demonstrates that he was prone to neither , and it was while we had Billy Callender in goal that Palace came closest to returning to Division 2 in 1928–29 , when we finished as runners-up to Charlton on goal average .
2 Joe played in every remaining Southern League match in that 1907–08 season and in our three FA Cup ties — and he was only missing from the Palace defence by reason of injuries during the next seven seasons .
3 At one function staged by the Party in Schweinfurt in October 1940 , for example , the local population turned out in force to welcome U-Boat veterans at a recruiting session for the navy , but the same people ‘ were almost entirely missing at the other functions of the NSDAP ’ .
4 His body was entirely missing below the waist , the stump of his torso being plugged in to a cybercart of softly gurgling tubes , which he controlled with his one remaining flesh-and-bone hand .
5 The study of housework as work is a topic entirely missing from sociology .
6 If it were , we should be subject to a kind of indecision about the causal connection between condition-sets and their effects which is in fact entirely missing from our deliberations. ( ii ) On the given probabilistic analyses an event e , if it lowers the probability of an event f , can not be cause of f .
7 The MINSE approach requires a detailed investigation which moves beyond the intuition of the analyst , and can therefore only be accurate with a continual input of local expertise which was obviously missing during some of the phases of the research project .
8 But by this time there was something very obviously missing from her play .
9 Sedgefield Labour MP Tony Blair : ‘ Our commitment to the NHS , and to the elderly and families by increasing pensions and child benefits will bring to Government a sense of community and the need to help others so obviously missing from the Conservative party 's agenda over the last 13 years . ’
10 This kind of ‘ motivational congruence between practitioners and clients ’ was generally missing from the studies in the first wave of effectiveness research , they suggest ( p. 338 ) .
11 The aim of this Lecture is to incorporate some of the important real-world features which are patently missing from the model of Lecture 6 .
12 Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood .
13 An element which is largely missing from both the Marxist and feminist accounts , in contrast to either the conservative- or liberal-historical approaches , is reference to the role of religion in contemporary society .
14 Largely missing from de Gaulle 's account were the dilemmas , ambiguities , illusions , deceptions , and self-deceptions that gave these years their poignancy .
15 In a frank and often amusing outburst , full of the colour and character normally missing from her stand-offish image , she put herself forward as being terribly misunderstood .
16 Not fair on Town , but there was something just missing from their attacks ; something not quite right ; the ice cream was n't the right flavour .
17 Still missing following its theft from Houghton Hall on 30 September last year is Jean Baptiste Oudry 's ‘ White Duck ’ , the artist 's masterpiece .
18 Colin Anderson is still missing through suspension , and more bad news is that Owen Pickard is out injured .
19 An element was still missing from the equation of Tatyana 's suicide and Blanche was more convinced than ever that Taczek possessed it .
20 VAUX DURHAM COAST LEAGUE SUNDERLAND footballer Richard Ord is still missing from Murton 's side but a former Roker Park employee makes his debut in today 's home game against Easington .
21 Propositions 53 — 71 are the application of this thought to expectation ( for example , 56 : ‘ If someone could see the expectation itself — he would have to see what is being expected ’ ; 60 : ‘ Reality is not a property still missing in what is expected and which accedes to it when one 's expectation comes about ’ ) ; 331–70 , to colours ( for example , 331 : ‘ One is tempted to justify rules of grammar by sentences like ‘ But there really are four primary colours .
22 There was still no news of Waite , but I read that Archbishop Runcie 's offer to help Iran locate four of its diplomats still missing in Beirut had received official welcome .
23 The Sri Lankan government on April 1 issued a denial of claims that its navy had shot at two Indian fishing trawlers in the prawn-catching area off the north of the island on March 11 and 16 ; seven people were still missing after the latter incident .
24 Thousands of works of art once held in Russian and German museums are still missing after the war , including the famed Amber Chamber from the Imperial Summer Palace at Tsarskoe Selo , dismantled by the Germans when they occupied the outskirts of Leningrad .
25 The subtle differences have brought a strength and depth of study to the discipline of building surveying and created the sense of identity so palpably missing in the 1960s .
26 Vainglory is totally missing from de Pomiane 's work .
27 There 's something we 're always missing among
28 Also missing in traction : the Fontana showcase with Catherine Wheel , House Of Love and Ocean Colour Scene : the rumoured-to-be-great Grifters and recent On -sters Gigolo Aunts .
29 Also missing from the personal computer users vocabulary were such words as laser printer , PostScript , page description language and a whole range of typographic terminology that we all now take for granted .
30 In several instances , the parents gradually became aware that something was ‘ wrong ’ : the user 's physical appearance deteriorated over a period of time ; household and personal items were unexplainedly missing from the home ; the user began borrowing heavily and often from parents and siblings .
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