lacuna

Converse of object

• fill: The only attempt to fill this lacunae has occurred in the context of terrorism.
• address: By exploring the role of language in the constitution of social relations, the project seeks to address a lacuna in contemporary anthropological theory.
• call: The matrix enclosed compartments that they sit in are called lacunae.
• gape: In short, England is a gaping lacuna in this rapidly developing field.
• correct: The Bill deals with a single issue of principle in the field of valuation for rating by way of correcting a lacuna.
• remain: Bandolier suspects that there remain huge lacunae of ignorance in the pharmaceutical world.

Adjective modifier

• serious: I just wonder whether the OFT Review Team will look at this potentially serious lacuna in the regulations.
• major: This is a major lacuna that needs to be addressed.
• significant: Yet the implications of her work extend beyond filling in a significant lacuna in the existing scholarship.
• obvious: I examine three obvious lacunae in Elias ' theory.
• few: It is assigned to the eighth century, and contains the Gospels complete, except for a few small lacunae.
• other: Broué has more than made up for this, or for any other lacuna in his subsequent work.

Preposition: in

• law: This lacunae in the law will continue to be exploited by right wing extremists.
• regulation: I just wonder whether the OFT Review Team will look at this potentially serious lacuna in the regulations.