Example sentences of "[not/n't] without [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not without biblical significance , the exhibition marks the artist 's seventieth birthday and coincides with a revival of interest in his work . |
| 2 | His career was not without personal risk : the sculptor was nearly mauled in the dockyards at Puteoli while drawing caged animals destined for the arena . |
| 3 | THE purging of dissidents from any organisation is widely known as a ‘ night of the long knives ’ — and not without good reason . |
| 4 | Not without good reason . |
| 5 | And not without good reason . |
| 6 | This is not without good reason . |
| 7 | At all events we shall not go wrong in assuming that it is not without good reason that he tells us of so impressive a roll call of nationalities on the day of Pentecost ( 2:5–11 ) . |
| 8 | And the Jew and the proletarian were , not without good reason , seen as harbingers of this modern . |
| 9 | The organisation was complex and not without internal conflict . |
| 10 | Even before birth a human being is not without legal recognition , for the antenatal life is protected by the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929 . |
| 11 | The crisis , which mostly concerned urban strays , was successfully met with poison baiting , but this was not without environmental cost . |
| 12 | Events moved quickly , though as Cullingworth 's history reveals , not without great uncertainty and confusion in Whitehall . |
| 13 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 14 | Make no mistake , there are many who believe ( again not without considerable self-interest , that the serious business of running airlines should be left to a few major carriers — except , perhaps , for a few local services . |
| 15 | The problems may be overcome , but not without considerable expenditure . |
| 16 | She wrote straightway to Ellen , though not without considerable difficulty . |
| 17 | It is not without considerable irony that he should choose an example which is so uniquely interventionist as to render his previous assertion almost meaningless . |
| 18 | He heard on the grapevine that I was interested in this place , and came to me , not without considerable risk to himself . ’ |
| 19 | To the RAF Falcons it 's meat and drink , but not without hard work . |
| 20 | Thus it was that Philip VI , who was not without military skill and experience , felt obliged to seek out and , if possible , defeat the English king and his Norman supporters . |
| 21 | Commonsense , not without distinguished endorsement from past centuries , thinks as Hart Crane did that it is not true at all ; that on the contrary there are occasions too trivial , too lacking in dignity or resonance , to deserve the ceremoniousness that , as Tomlinson perceived , verse-writing always brings with it . |
| 22 | I just have to wait for his letter , but I think the sensible thing to do would be to talk to you about what he 's putting you on because a lot of these drugs are not without potential side effects . |
| 23 | ( iii ) The absence of an inner , concentric band produces a more open arrangement , wherein the trees are taller , the animals less restricted , and where the design suggests a radial movement ( which , with regard to the " fully radial arrangements of mosaics showing Orpheus , at Littlecote and Winterton , Lincs. , both dated to periods after 350 , is not without chronological significance ) . |
| 24 | And the sheer incidentals , the imagined languages of the Martian creatures , the poetic hrossi , the intellectual sorns and the practical and commercially minded pfifftriggs have a playful quality which , while being purely enjoyable , is not without satiric edge . |
| 25 | And what the devil , Kee is n't without sexual experience after all : she has a past . |