Example sentences of "not be [verb] without the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Dogon were aware that the planet Saturn had rings and that the planet Jupiter had four moons , which are pieces of information that can not be obtained without the use of a telescope — an artefact the Dogon have yet to discover .
2 As he was under 20 years old , he could not be employed without the permission of his parents .
3 A petition can not be withdrawn without the leave of the court ( s 266(2) ) and leave will not be given before the petition is heard ( r 6.32(3) ) .
4 A bankruptcy petition , put before the court and registered on the court file , can not be withdrawn without the court 's permission , so presentation of this kind of application should not be undertaken lightly .
5 Likewise Austin Farrer believes that a translation process can not be undertaken without the substance of the matter being lost .
6 Should it be desired to alter this state of affairs , there would be many who would assert that the change could not be made without the consent of the part of the United Kingdom affected , however it were to be expressed .
7 ( 2 ) A partial offer may not be made without the consent of the Panel , although this will usually be forthcoming where the offer is for less than 30 per cent of the company 's voting rights .
8 The other amendments in the group deal with the resale of the businesses themselves , which we suggest should not be done without the consent of employees in the undertakings .
9 Obviously , pollen grains are very small plant remains , and can not be seen without the aid of a microscope ; but larger remains ( macroscopic plant remains ) , such as seeds and grains , leaves , twigs , wood and charcoal also provide evidence about the vegetation that existed around a site , and can show if and how it was exploited by the people living there .
10 It is usually the case that a lease can not be assigned without the consent of the lessor : if the lease states this , the lessor will be obliged , not unreasonably , to withhold consent .
11 that some of the material on the computerised systems in question met the statutory definition of records and thus could not be destroyed without the approval of the Archivist .
12 However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right .
13 The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right .
14 The fact is that they hold the uterus open , which means that egg and sperm are allowed to unite , but the pregnancy is doomed because it can not be sustained without the uterus closing .
15 Equally obviously , for any degree of smallness or crudeness of ancestral air-catching surfaces , there must be some distance , however short , which can be jumped with the flap and which can not be jumped without the flap .
16 The belief will come from researching the media and their prospects but the research will not be funded without the belief .
17 All Autocar & Motor test results are subject to world copyright and may not be reproduced without the editor 's written permission .
18 Where , as here , the alleged libel has been published in a newspaper , the prosecution may not be commenced without the leave of a judge under section 8 of the Law of Libel Amendment Act 1888 ( 51 & 52 Vict. c. 64 ) — a very important safeguard when the freedom of the press is in issue .
19 Providing services of all these kinds — and in this way also helping to supplement the personal tending work usually done gratuitously by relatives responding to the emotional bonds and obligations of kinship — can clearly not be accomplished without the expenditure of resources , human and material ( Abrams 1978 : 67 ) .
20 This then ensures that fraud can not be committed without the collusion of at least two individuals .
21 Just as the will of God can not be known without the revelation of the Spirit , so the service of God can not be carried through without the equipment of that same Spirit .
22 If , after such an order has been made , the deponent does not attend , the affidavit can not be used without the leave of the court ( r 7.7(2) ) .
23 On Jan. 20 Akbulut emphasised that " joint defence installations … definitely can not be used without the permission , authorization and knowledge of the government " .
24 For example , taxes may not be levied and public money may not be expended without the authority of an Act of Parliament ; an individual may not be deprived of personal liberty without positive legal authority ; private property may not be seized or searched by government except with legal authority .
25 Mcloughlin and Brown emphasise that this exercise must be undertaken after due consultation with all those involved , recognising that such matters as customer satisfaction can not be addressed without the involvement of the customer , who could be asked to score the quality of the service provided .
26 It ensures that software can not be changed without the knowledge of the users it affects .
27 My Bill would establish a new constitutional settlement for Scotland , create a Parliament with a fixed four-year term , provide for elections by a system of proportional representation , establish a Bill of Rights , create the office of ombudsman , give to the Parliament revenue-raising responsibility , entrench these arrangements in such a way that they could not be changed without the consent of both the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments and provide that all Scottish domestic affairs should be the responsibility of a Parliament sitting in Edinburgh , reserving foreign affairs , defence and large-scale economics to Westminster .
28 All supporters of " Unity " realized that their aims could not be attained without the participation of the Labour Party .
29 Management accounts , trade secrets of the business , plans or opportunities for the future can not be released without the approval of the vendor .
30 However , one disadvantage of a forward contract is that it can not be cancelled without the agreement of both counterparties .
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