Example sentences of "[noun sg] without [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork . |
| 2 | ‘ Sounds fine , but , well , even if Montgomery manages to raise this bomber , if he manages to cut a hole in the fuselage without blowing us all to kingdom come , if he manages to extract the atom bomb and if he manages to secure it to the Angelina 's cradle , what happens if the thing detonates before he reaches the Kásos Strait ? ’ |
| 3 | At one meeting a chairman blithely told me as he went on to the platform that they would have the National Anthem at the end , changing his mind without consulting me first . |
| 4 | Hans van den Broek , the EC 's foreign-affairs commissioner , would like to bring the easterners closer to the Community without offering them full membership . |
| 5 | But all the same I could n't make such a move without giving it some thought , ’ Paula said grandly . |
| 6 | She never went to anyone else 's place without checking it first . |
| 7 | the stating of the price without making it clear , if it is the case , that it applies only to cash customers or that it does not apply to part-exchange deals or applies only in certain circumstances or does not apply in certain other circumstances ; |
| 8 | This was the first device to show quantitatively that at least a straight magnetic field system could contain a hot , high-pressure hydrogen plasma without having it diffuse across the magnetic field too rapidly . |
| 9 | By contrast , when innovation is discrete and there can be only one winner of an R&D race , own and rivals ' R&D substitute for each other , meaning that spillovers from firm i to firm j reduce i 's chances of winning the current R&D race without giving it any compensating advantages in the future . |
| 10 | Dawn is particularly inquisitive , and I soon discovered she would never fly properly in a new area without investigating it first , even if I was holding out food for her . |
| 11 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 12 | Even when I was a schoolboy I was able to disguise it because my parents made sure that I had the best of footwear specially made to build up my right foot without making it obvious that this was the case . |
| 13 | It 's quite simple to stay out of range of any possible attack without making it obvious to everyone in the street . |
| 14 | Mr Jones , 43 , who runs the cafe in Ross-on-Wye , said : ‘ I took exception to the fact that she was selling teas outside our door without informing me first . ’ |
| 15 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 16 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 17 | Whether you have to make urgent repairs to your car or pay for that holiday you 've been saving for , you can get money out of your account without giving us any notice at all — and you wo n't lost any interest . |
| 18 | read each item without hearing it first , and have the language helper say the word correctly after you have said it only if you did n't say it right |
| 19 | Herbal Ribbon Gel was used to slick hair and add gloss without making it stiff and sticky . |
| 20 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
| 21 | We may one day achieve a position where a region may elect to disaffiliate from a dominant state , and become a European region without feeling it encumbent upon itself to apply for membership of the United Nations . |