Example sentences of "[is] not without " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fraser 's book is not without its evident presuppositions , and not every reader will feel that this autobiographer , having perused and digested his tape-recordings , talked to his analyst and completed his inner and outer voyages , knew something radically different about his past from what he had known before : that something had been found , or proved . |
| 2 | As will be seen in Chapter 5 , this interpretation is not without foundation . |
| 3 | The BeSHT became so influential that the leaders of the people , the power-manipulators and self-appointed guardians of the Law , had no alternative but to do what their like has always done to those who broke loose , butterfly-like : They excommunicated him ; marginalised his usefulness ; neutered his religious potency : ‘ A prophet is not without honour … ’ |
| 4 | If Mrs Thatcher is touched by paranoia , it is not without reason . |
| 5 | And if Davie 's principles make him what some might call ‘ elitist ’ or ‘ undemocratic ’ , as in his stinging verdicts on ‘ catchpenny enterprises … like the Arvon Poetry Competitions ’ , it is not without his having pondered the arguments about the place and function of elites and of high art in a democratic nation far more deeply than the bulk of his fellow countrymen . |
| 6 | And yet their horizon is not without its clouds . |
| 7 | Carson is not without a chance on Murango later in the afternoon , but preference is for Petite Rosanna ( next best 3.40 ) , for whom the booking of Steve Cauthen looks significant . |
| 8 | The Chancellor is not without fault . |
| 9 | This proposition , admittedly , is not without its difficulties when the sovereign is the same person in two or more realms where her ministers may tender divergent or opposing advice on the same subject ; but so far the possibilities involved in these different capacities of the sovereign have not caused embarrassment in practice . |
| 10 | Yet his work is not without redeeming features . |
| 11 | Not having seen Debord 's films ( he refused screenings at the ICA in London ) , Levin 's arguments are in one sense untestable ; nevertheless the article is not without difficulties . |
| 12 | The continuity thesis is not without some merit if carefully defined . |
| 13 | And the sheer incidentals , the imagined languages of the Martian creatures , the poetic hrossi , the intellectual sorns and the practical and commercially minded pfifftriggs have a playful quality which , while being purely enjoyable , is not without satiric edge . |
| 14 | As the debate moves into the final stretch , Britain is not without its bargaining cards either . |
| 15 | A PROPHET is not without honour , save in his own house . |
| 16 | This is not without its glimmer of truth . |
| 17 | But Casaubon is not without insight in his idea that the committed experimental philosopher may come to think that all areas of human concern and experience are legitimate grist to his mill . |
| 18 | Even before birth a human being is not without legal recognition , for the antenatal life is protected by the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929 . |
| 19 | As an early domestic melodrama it is not without interest , but this sermonising evening is , frankly , a slog with only fitful rewards along the way . |
| 20 | This aim is underpinned by three interrelated objectives and it is not without significance how they complement and serve to implement the White Paper 's own trinity of ‘ aims of supervision ’ , that is , protection of the public , prevention of reoffending and successful reintegration of the offender in the community ( p. 35 , para. 7.3 ) . |
| 21 | Companies are finding that life cycle analysis is a valuable tool for measuring the environmental effects of products , but this technique is not without its critics . |
| 22 | Most of the papers unashamedly promote commercial products and intermediates to the market and while that , in itself , is not without interest , there is an over-abundance of claims of performance advantages which the reader will judge against weakness in supportive fact or convincing argument . |
| 23 | Odd as this may sound , the idea that an association might be formed between a CS and the absence of some event is not without precedent in associative theorizing . |
| 24 | This approach however is not without problems and to cope with them sophisticated administration systems are needed exercising controls in five main areas : |
| 25 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 26 | It may be noted for the sake of completeness that respect for the patient 's right to self-determination is not without its own limitation . |
| 27 | Paying attention to real readers is certainly one productive way of breaking out of the view that the text alone determines audience response , but it is not without its difficulties . |
| 28 | In the developed world , the harnessing of fossil fuel energy as well as other scientific developments , and their application to agricultural systems , has opened up a new range of agricultural possibilities : but all this has happened over a relatively long time period and is not without its environmental implications . |
| 29 | It is not without interest to note that in the USA there is a Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) , established in 1978 , charged with dealing with all types of emergency planning and management . |
| 30 | This thematic classification is not without its drawbacks . |