Sentence examples for lacking in the first from inspiring English sources

He then added the strong finish that was lacking in the first round.

That was always part of the DNA of the show and it was lacking in the first episode.

Gravesen gave them more bite in the middle of the park, something they had been sorely lacking in the first period.

The hosts played with a zip and incision that was entirely lacking in the first match and will now be confident of beating Cape Verde to secure passage to the quarter-finals.

Sadly, the Kyoto process has not been blessed with much sincerity or cleverness: the Americans have been lacking in the first, and the Europeans woefully inadequate in the second.

Hauntingly for the stricken Ancelotti, not only did Drogba do what Torres has found impossible at Chelsea, he did it with the kind of service that the Spaniard had been totally lacking in the first half which ended with a United goal quite as brilliant as the one that gave them such a vital edge in the first leg at Stamford Bridge.

In order to achieve the political stability that was lacking in the Third and the Fourth Republic, the constitution of 1958 adopted a mixed (semipresidential) form of government, combining elements of both parliamentary and presidential systems.

By contrast, the self advantage was lacking in the second experiment where self recognition was explicitly required.

The conserved amino acid residues F100, N111, Y119 and L120, which are involved in the α/β-type fold of the protein [ 72], are lacking in the second protein variant of clpr2 (Additional file 1: Figure S1A).

Moreover, GTP-binding proteins usually have two conserved sequences with the consensus sequences Asn-Lys-x-Asp (residues 192 to 195 in the first variant) and Ser-Ala-Leu/Lys (residues 230 to 233 in the first variant), which are important for the binding to a guanine nucleotid [ 84]; both motives are lacking in the second variant (Additional file 1: Figure S2A).

But Bell and Prior, showing the calmness and good sense that England lacked in the first innings, removed any doubt over the outcome.