Example sentences of "[verb] not without " in BNC.
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| 1 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 2 | The peace of mind that they produce however is won not without some costs . |
| 3 | This was done not without trepidation , for the experience of preparing and presenting a proposal for external validation was new to the College and it was recognised that the development of the proposals , and subsequently of the course , in the very limited time scale necessitated by the speed of the Programme , would create major workload problems . |
| 4 | In passages written not without humour , though theirs is the blackest of black comedy , we read of the water of the Nile turned to blood , of plagues of frogs , gnats , flies , and locusts , of the domestic animals of the Egyptians dying of disease , of a terrible outbreak of boils , of death-dealing hailstorms , and an awesome and fearful darkness . |
| 5 | These leads , rejected not without reason , proved almost impossible to crack , although the odd few good ones would always emerge like gold nuggets in the granite . |
| 6 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 7 | And it it does n't without integration you just |