Example sentences of "without [verb] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |
| 2 | Without bringing it to the front of my mind , I sensed that Otto felt himself in competition with me , whilst at the same time seeming imperturbable . |
| 3 | On an impulse , she opened the case and took the violin out , held it and held the bow without applying it to the strings . |
| 4 | The present nature of housing can not be fully understood without relating it to the nature of domestic labour . |
| 5 | It seems that it is impossible — or should be impossible — to discuss any aspect of teachers ' pay , however technical , without relating it to the quality of teachers ' performance and teaching methods . |
| 6 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 7 | Time is regarded as a crucial aspect of experience in English , so that it is virtually impossible to discuss any event in English without locating it in the past , present , or future . |
| 8 | Fishing in deep water Stephano had a powerful run on his mackerel bait and fought a shark for over three quarters of an hour without moving it off the bottom . |
| 9 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
| 10 | To compel a pupil to obey a teacher makes no sense without placing it in the context of compulsory schooling enforced legally . |
| 11 | Steadman , who had been doubtful to play , admitted he was ‘ naive ’ to take the medicine without clearing it with the tour doctor . |
| 12 | This must be at one end of the housing , clear of the other compartments , and then you will be able to slide the glass off this compartment without sliding it off the others . |
| 13 | Moz 's dinner could then be brought into the yard without dumping it over the fence ; and the horse was then led up to this food , caressed a few times , and released while he was still distracted by eating the first few mouthfuls . |
| 14 | So free it from the edge of the sinker plate that it 's on , but without freeing it from the wheels and brushes beneath the sinker plate . |