Example sentences of "but without [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The older scholarship treated history as the march of events , combining change and continuity , but without a mind or will of its own . |
| 2 | Knowing our past does not automatically yield solutions to the problems of the present : but without a knowledge of the past it would be impossible even to contemplate addressing these problems . |
| 3 | He waited patiently , but without a vestige of sympathy . |
| 4 | He looked in my direction briefly , but without a flicker of recognition . |
| 5 | These are closest to the Japanese and German ways , but without a main bank to act as kingpin . |
| 6 | I really , strongly do not want to be ruled by such people — people with America 's political correctness , but without the American love of liberty ; people with the Continent 's dirigisme , but without a Continental breadth of culture ; people with a modern metropolitan 's contempt for his own country 's traditions , but a bumpkin 's ignorance of economics . |
| 7 | Clothing was rationed , as it was at home , but without a ‘ textile ticket ’ one could quite easily obtain goods in the regular shops by openly paying the assistant a bribe . |
| 8 | The view is persuasively developed in the later portions of the book but without a sense of its controversial character . |
| 9 | They were driven by domestic challenge and external threat to build a powerful State , with the mechanisms for raising resources to finance it , but without a powerful State being the intention ( let alone what was to come later , popular participation and a general nationalism ) . |
| 10 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 11 | You may want to wind down your workload as you get older — but without a second income to replace your lost earnings , your options will be restricted . |
| 12 | He attended a primary school some miles away and tried secondary schools but without a great deal of success . |
| 13 | Meetings , despite their reputation for being boring , are rich in opportunities to learn about behaviour but without a review mechanism the opportunities are mostly missed ( see Meetings on page 106 ) . |
| 14 | The failure of the League of Nations in Danzig was a failure of nerve and understanding on the part of the member states : unforgivably they minimised the difficulty and frustrations of the position they had carved for Poland — a country emerging to modernity after over 100 years of partition , a country without financial capital , with hostile neighbours , border problems , huge minorities but without a port of its own . |
| 15 | So Chola took her downstairs and led the bull out of its dark stable into the adjoining sheep-pen , which was enclosed by stone walls , but without a roof so there was light to see . |
| 16 | These developments were the minutiae by which an intrinsically superior sparkling wine came to be refined , but without a raw product of unique potential there would have been nothing to refine . |
| 17 | You are right to be concerned about protein levels , but without a very thorough understanding of canine nutritional science , you will end up tying yourself in knots . |
| 18 | It 's only the middle of April , but without a doubt this is going to be one of the best books of the year for me . |
| 19 | In 1991 it received payment from a client for work done and billed ( but without a VAT charge ) prior to October 1986 . |
| 20 | There is a bench-lined sanctuary opening out of the west side of the Central Court , but without a throne and without an antechamber or en suite lustral basin . |
| 21 | There are eight long rays emanating from the head ; but without a text , uncertainty remains as to their precise identification . |
| 22 | Though it is individual and by no means difficult on the ear , its profusion of material makes following the course of the musical thought something of a challenge , with the reflective second movement ( also in sonata form , but without a development section ) particularly elusive . |
| 23 | And we know him as self-centred , selfish and idle , yet one of the shrewdest politicians , but without a constructive idea in his head and with an amazing ignorance of Indian and foreign affairs and of the real values of political life . |
| 24 | There are sufficient inhabitants in Stockport for a good Grammar School , but without a department for the teaching the modern languages the school can be of comparatively little use in a commercial population like that of Stockport . |
| 25 | The process is similar to doing a jigsaw puzzle , but without a clear pattern on each piece . |
| 26 | More recently , Marzi , Stefano , Tassinari and Crea ( 1979 ) , also using a post-cued partial report technique but without a mask , obtained a partial report advantage which decreased with increasing intervals between stimulus presentation and cue . |
| 27 | They are like miniature temples : one gabled room , entered through a columned porch but without a surrounding colonnade . |
| 28 | But without a word , Ernie stood up and followed his brother unsteadily out of the bar , leaving a slightly embarrassed silence behind . |
| 29 | Nigel : But without a safety cage ? |
| 30 | It has said , ’ We do not have the power to have a statutory canvass , but without a statutory canvass , we do not know the real position . |