Example sentences of "[noun sg] without [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be crass to describe Screaming Trees as The Cult Without The Stupid Bits , but they do have a rare knack of crafting glorious , quite literally classic heavy rock without resorting to the pompous clichés . |
| 2 | To at least some of its attackers this pattern must be intimidating and its value is that it may allow the cobra to repel its enemy without resorting to the use of its precious venom . |
| 3 | 1 Can you draw this figure without going over the same line twice ? |
| 4 | Its intentions were not borne out , perhaps could not be borne out , because it attempted to find a niche within a competitive industry without engaging in the sort of competition which guaranteed its rivals , success . |
| 5 | If this was not so we would forever be bumping into things ; it would be impossible to pass through a doorway without banging into the doorpost or to cross a room without tripping over the furniture . |
| 6 | NEXT loop without passing through the NEXT statement . |
| 7 | And with the ending of merger talks with BZW , it is hard to see how Morgan Grenfell can preserve its independence without falling into the hands of an overseas concern . |
| 8 | The seas , long and oily-smooth , lifted Golden Girl without breaking on the light hulls , and left the barest traces of phosphorescence in the twin wakes . |
| 9 | Norman Beaton 's mischievous , avuncular Doc , though , squeezes all the gentle humour from the lilting , dialogue without succumbing to the temptation to twinkle . |
| 10 | This study was to examine whether ‘ fit ’ patients over the age of 50 who require elective surgery for ulcerative colitis are suitable candidates for restorative proctocolectomy , providing that they are continent berore operation and that the anal sphincter is preserved in its entirety without stripping of the mucosa or endoanal anastomosis . |
| 11 | If this was not so we would forever be bumping into things ; it would be impossible to pass through a doorway without banging into the doorpost or to cross a room without tripping over the furniture . |
| 12 | He walked down the hill without looking at the dead men , slowly and with difficulty and pain . |
| 13 | His definition of this Enlightenment concept is similar to Voltaire in that he suggests that the prejudiced person comes to a conclusion without bothering about the facts of the matter . |
| 14 | He walks out of the shrine without looking at the crowd , picks up one of the lambs , frightened and bleating , and carries its almost weightless body round to the side of the shrine . |
| 15 | ‘ The site enables us to carry on our day to day business without interfering with the local community . |
| 16 | Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something . |
| 17 | We considered that he ought to have taken these points during the hearing itself and , in so far as they were of a technical procedural nature , he had waived his right to advance them because he was content to allow the full two-day hearing to take place without complaining at the outset that he had been prejudiced by short notice of the hearing or by any procedural irregularity in the way the preliminary issue had been brought before the court . |
| 18 | And yet the changes have taken place without disturbing in the slightest the unique atmosphere that makes the event so special , a credit to the care , attention and financial assistance that Direct Line have devoted to making Beckenham one of the most pleasant stops on the tennis calendar . |
| 19 | In January 1956 , Dulles , still apparently comforted by his country 's nuclear armoury , made his ‘ brinkmanship ’ speech : ‘ The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art . |
| 20 | It 's certainly possible to do a fair modicum of string bending on the Moon without suffering from the usual de-tuning syndrome which afflicts most floating trems . |
| 21 | First and foremost everyone present at an event must be able to see and hear , and the press must be able to see and hear slightly better than the rest without getting in the way of the guests . |
| 22 | The student has to improvise and adapt the procedure without departing from the principles of aseptic technique . |
| 23 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 24 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 25 | Gordon Brunt and his friends had taken away a wall without putting in the proper structural support , so the whole of the left side of Château Quigley had collapsed . |
| 26 | It 's very difficult to attempt self definition without relating to the occupational world , and you get into the sort of situation where women only have private selves , they do n't have public selves at all , which certainly creates problems of self definition for them . |
| 27 | I try to think of something smart to say to hide the fact that I 'm beaten , and finally come out with a pathetic ‘ I could n't stay in this stink without puking on the carpet . |
| 28 | ‘ Michelet has strong emotions , and he smears what he feels on to paper without caring in the least how he does it , and without giving the slightest thought to technique or conventional forms — just shaping it into any form that can be understood by those who want to understand it . ’ |
| 29 | In the morning in Jacksonville , I shaved and dressed , listening to the television without looking at the pictures . |
| 30 | We show you how to use the library without mooning along the shelves , but by using the index and other efficient methods of communication . |