Example sentences of "without [Wh det] [pron] [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 An attempt is being made to provide them with some form of base organisation without which they can not develop full effectiveness .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Many IT applications required standards without which they will not work , eg , electronic data interchange .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
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