Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] without [being] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Farms could be accumulated without being enclosed , and individual yeomen could , by exchanging strips in the open fields with their neighbours , consolidate their holdings and thereby create a unit which was easier to work . |
2 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
3 | YEARS ago Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
4 | YEARS ago , Peter Brook held up Debussy 's Pelleas et Melisande as an example of an opera that could be condensed without being harmed . |
5 | Under the deal , called PRT ( Promotion , Transfer and Redundancy ) , nobody can be sacked without being offered another job somewhere in the system . |
6 | Unir says binaries developed using C++ can be run without being recompiled on any processor that supports Conix , enabling developers to distribute the same binary for Sparc , 68000 family and iAPX-86 . |
7 | Unir says binaries developed using C+@ can be run without being recompiled on any processor that supports Conix , allowing developers to distribute the same binary for Sparc , the 68000 and Intel . |
8 | Under present law an article can be stolen without being taken away . |