Example sentences of "without [pron] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesperson commented : ‘ It 's true that without them we may well have closed . ’ |
| 2 | And without them we could n't function properly . |
| 3 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 4 | Without them I can not release the restless spirit in my bones . |
| 5 | Without them I could not have completed my course . |
| 6 | ‘ Without them it would n't have been possible , ’ swooned the ebony-tressed editrice as she eased on her crushed-velvet vermilion robes . |
| 7 | Never let the politicians get hold of your own particular source of comfort and kid you that without them it will not survive . |
| 8 | Richard Crossman , a Labour Member of Parliament , also noted the determination of the " liberal " establishment by the end of 1956 to rebuild relations with the United States " without whom we could not survive " , a conclusion with which he reluctantly concurred . |
| 9 | We can not be complacent , for progress marches on and inflation eats at our financing , but we can be proud of the Institution — and extend again our heartfelt thanks to the voluntary fund raisers and crews without whom it could not exist in any form . |
| 10 | Concluding his report to the Governors Mr Vernon returned to the people who make up the RNLI , and without whom it could not exist . |
| 11 | A semblance of opposition helps Kenya 's case with the foreign donors without whom it can not prosper . |
| 12 | During my term of office I hope to introduce all of you to the ‘ Team ’ who are the driving force behind the Society — Friends without whom I could not manage ! |
| 13 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |
| 14 | As an age-group , a stage of life , adolescents stood , clearly visible , defined and itemized , the embodiment of so many of the tensions and contradictions peculiar to the period , without which they would never have been ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 15 | An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness . |
| 16 | We remember the great names like Lyell or Darwin , and forget the supporting cast without which they could not have been stars : those in museums classifying their findings . |
| 17 | Established firms are tending to scoop up the talent in the market which is still in second-tier houses — without which they will not survive . |
| 18 | Many IT applications required standards without which they will not work , eg , electronic data interchange . |
| 19 | Will representations to other Governments be as strong as possible to encourage them to make the sort of contributions to the know-how fund and to know-how activity that is absolutely crucial for the developing economies in central and eastern Europe , and without which they will never develop democratic politics as well ? |
| 20 | He it is who not only empowers us to do right , but works in us the desire to want to do right , without which we would never dream of turning to ask him for his strength . |
| 21 | We tend to take our water for granted , a turn of the tap and we have all we need , but we should consider more this most important mineral , without which we could not exist , the dry summer of 1976 proving how much we owe to water companies and the men who operate them . |
| 22 | It encouraged him towards early independence and self-sufficiency without which he would not have got his career off to so quick a start ; and it must have contributed to the ease with which , to further that career , he uprooted himself first from South Africa and later from his adopted second homeland in Britain . |
| 23 | Assessing his father retrospectively with a mixture of filial compassion and uncompromising lucidity , Nizan remarked : My father depicted culture as power and wealth , as the one thing that he did not have and without which he could not become a bourgeois . |
| 24 | The following morning saw me back at the surgery in order to collect not only my screwdriver but also the death certificate , duly signed by two doctors ( yes , they had managed to find the mortuary ) , without which I could not obtain a Registration of Death certificate , without which Nigel could not be cremated . |
| 25 | In narrower military terms , the Sandys ’ Reformation , without which it would not have been possible to contemplate ending National Service , was already seen in Whitehall as premature , if not wholly mistaken . |
| 26 | In order to guarantee the Council 's legal responsibilities ; to preserve the public 's access to information ; and to preserve the clear channels of communication and a smooth exchange of information without which it can not do its business , local authorities need to give very close attention to who is responsible for the electronic information bases of the departments that are going through the process of white-collar CCT . |
| 27 | It was n't only the money , but her library card , her family allowance book , the receipt from the repair shop without which she could n't get her watch back , creased photographs , with Edward 's own photograph among them , her address book , almost the whole sum of her identity . |
| 28 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 29 | Without you they would n't exist . |
| 30 | ‘ In fact , it may not turn out to be a job at all , but without you we could n't know for sure . ’ |