Example sentences of "without [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others among them may form consistently unfortunate or unhappy heterosexual relationships without realising the true reason for their failures in this area ; for these , realisation of their homosexual needs and urges could be a step towards release from a heterosexual bondage . |
| 2 | ‘ They took decisions without realising the full impact on public opinion , ’ he said . |
| 3 | One night I was so touched by yet another account of his plight that I said , without realising the full implications of what I was saying , that there was a spare bedroom in Mrs Smith 's house . |
| 4 | Luke broke off without completing the shocked question , the appalled look in his eyes gradually giving way to contrition as he stared at her . |
| 5 | When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane . |
| 6 | However , having studied the file , the facts of the matter are that Mr Wingert proceeded with is written work without seeing the required approval of subject and content from the Membership Committee . |
| 7 | Indeed it would be possible to identify some fells from the attention he gives to the geology and his affection for each fold of rock and each rattling , winding ghyll , without seeing the characteristic outline of the peak . |
| 8 | The only place where we could make cuts , without resetting the entire piece , was in the last paragraph . |
| 9 | This enables you to guide the rear section home without catching the inner surface of the Dacron sleeve and helps to make sure that the sections are fully joined . |
| 10 | The difference between the two sums was substantial and the plaintiff was awarded the higher sum because the defendants would not have been able to make the brassieres at all without using the confidential information . |
| 11 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 12 | It is normally impossible to display all the components of an expanded system model in the same plane ( without using the whole wall of an office ! ) , so they were also shown as a hierarchical scalar , an example of which is given in Fig 11.6 . |
| 13 | The system may be checked without using the optical fibre for the moment . |
| 14 | He lacked the skill to talk without revealing the hashed contents of his meal . |
| 15 | It is also true that studies of this kind tend only to highlight differences without revealing the qualitative nature of the differences . |
| 16 | De Choiseul recognised , even more acutely than de Broglie , that no invasion was possible without defeating the Royal Navy . |
| 17 | This answer exhibits a common defect : it cites a case without explaining the legal principle involved in it , i.e. the legal ground on which the case was decided . |
| 18 | Offe stresses the role of the state as a crisis manager and asserts that there is today a ‘ crisis of crisis management ’ itself which derives from the contradictions inherent in the state 's efforts to compensate for failures in market mechanisms without challenging the private ownership of the means of production and the primacy of market mechanisms . |
| 19 | The environment will generate demands which could be met by the increment in the budget without challenging the existing budget thus leaving existing programmes of expenditure untouched . |
| 20 | ASTON Villa manager Ron Atkinson allowed Thursday 's transfer deadline to pass without opening the famous chequebook . |
| 21 | Perestroika will not work without opening the Soviet economy to the West , he rightly reckons , and that will not happen properly until there is a hard rouble . |
| 22 | In both cases this is a real emergency , because in the event of a cable break the pilot does not have time to realise what is wrong , and he may well stall and spin if he flies by attitude and tries to turn without checking the actual speed . |
| 23 | Deftly , the Committee responded to criticisms of the draft report published six months earlier , and without disengaging the central thrust of the proposals , won over many interested bodies , including the Institute of Directors and the Confederation of British Industry , both of which had harboured serious reservations . |
| 24 | Consideration could be ( and , in the larger firms , frequently is ) given to limiting the period during which any one individual carries responsibility as " senior partner " and the inclusion of an option to take a consultancy at retirement age is often the favoured solution where the firm is keen to retain the expertise and experience of its senior men without thwarting the legitimate ambitions of their successors . |
| 25 | It seems equally likely that , even without adopting the Scandinavian scheme involving a different scale of penalties for marital rape , sentencing in such cases would tend to be more lenient than in other rape cases . |
| 26 | Without denying the great efforts made by the local council and others to improve the estate , it is they who chose not to co-operate with police , not the other way round . |
| 27 | Successive crises were dealt with by Law without resolving the fundamental disequilibrium of the situation , for the conflict between coalition and party was as real in Law 's own mind as in the minds of a host of Unionists who continued to give general support to the government . |
| 28 | The argument advanced in section 1.2 would suggest that we can not explain or understand these changes in the UK economy without understanding the international forces that have acted upon it and which the UK has itself shaped . |
| 29 | It is impossible to understand the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus without understanding the Old Testament . |
| 30 | After two control periods of one hour each , 6.25 µg , 12.5 µg , or 25 µg purified cholera toxin ( Sigma , Deisenhofen , FRG ) was administered intrajejunally as a bolus without interrupting the intestinal perfusion . |