Example sentences of "without [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Community legislation may be comprehensive without necessarily dealing with the precise point raised by the Member State , and may therefore have the effect of ‘ freezing ’ the situation . |
| 2 | The first three kinds of honorific were clearly distinguished by Comrie ( 1976b ) , who pointed out that traditional descriptions have often confused ( i ) and ( ii ) : the distinction is that in ( i ) respect can only be conveyed by referring to the " target " of the respect , whereas in ( ii ) it can be conveyed without necessarily referring to the target . |
| 3 | The ‘ social optimality ’ approach can be refined to deal with the problem without necessarily resorting to the conclusion that ‘ self-interest ’ on the part of politicians and bureaucrats is proven . |
| 4 | On this model the profile is thin and narrow-ish , without exactly falling into the ‘ speed ’ category . |
| 5 | The defect of this mutant may thus reside in a factor that modulates transcription without directly interacting with the promoter elements of the MHC class II genes . |
| 6 | We began our laborious task without once reflecting on the many dangers that might attend it . |
| 7 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |
| 8 | Similarly , one could not satisfactorily analyse modalism in rock music without also dealing with the decline of modal folk song , in its traditional social contexts ; the urban folk revival ; the use of modal techniques by elite composers , and the ‘ discovery ’ of modal medieval and renaissance music ; the commodification of major-minor tonality by Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood , against which modalism could be seen as ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ ; the internationalization of capital bringing , through American cultural imperialism , the influence of modal Afro-American musics which , at the same time , could be seen as offering a potential for critique vis-à-vis the dominant , major-minor musical language ; and so on . |
| 9 | between support staff ( such as expecting SEN staff to focus on methods of achieving ‘ educational results ’ without also attending to the interactional emotional and behavioural context of learning failure , seen as the remit of pastoral care , counselling and the psychological services ) |
| 10 | He queried whether a solicitor who had made a promise without strictly complying with the criteria suggested in question 10 could escape liability as a matter of law . |
| 11 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 12 | The worst thing an interviewer can do is stick rigidly to the questions , without really listening to the answers . |
| 13 | Brutus again talks of Caesar 's authority becoming corrupt because of using it without really thinking about the consequences . |
| 14 | Ravished by a sunny afternoon , a pool set with palm trees and a jug of wine with a good-looking young doctor , she had agreed without even thinking of the drawbacks . |
| 15 | Without even glancing in the mirror , he crossed the inner and middle lanes into the fast lane and , in fewer than ten seconds the speedometer needle was registering one hundred and fifteen miles an hour , but Mark was oblivious of the fact . |
| 16 | A peculiarity of the British context — and a possible strength for its future — is that this sort of encouragement may be found without even looking across the English Channel , though generally by looking away from England . |
| 17 | He was banging non-stop around the house all day , bellowing ‘ TELEPHONE ’ when everyone could hear it ring , sitting at the piano without even looking at the keys , and making an excruciating racket . |
| 18 | Without even looking at the posters which now covered the walls , hiding the crayoned pictures . |
| 19 | ‘ In 1988 someone would come in and spend £40 per head without even looking at the bill . |
| 20 | Most of the scriptures we 'll be looking at today is very familiar with us we know them and some of them we may be able to recite without even looking at the words , but er , if we can try and get you to think a little bit about them , then we 've achieved something , if we can get you to think that , you know , well am I dozing or am I really awake as I should be , then we 'll achieve more , in verse eleven it speaks there about er , you people knowing the season , well what people are we talking about ? |
| 21 | Marriages in middle-class Egyptian families were made by the father , usually without reference to the son or daughter , and sometimes without even reference to the mother . |
| 22 | Just seem to keep moving all the time without even running on the spot . |
| 23 | After some time though people begin to realize that they have spent minutes , hours , even days , without consciously thinking of the person who has died . |
| 24 | Both Lord Coleridge C.J. and Smith J. relied on Morgan v. Palmer ; Smith J. also invoked Steele v. Williams , 8 Ex. 625 , without however referring to the judgment of Martin B. Neither referred to the power of immediate distress . |
| 25 | You ca n't be single-minded , energetic , enterprising and direct without occasionally erring on the side of pig-headedness , foolhardiness and bad temper . ’ |
| 26 | Without specifically referring to the letter to Mr. Choudhury , he quashed both decisions by the appeal committee . |
| 27 | Questions like these in the consultant 's mind led to fanning a small positive spark in seemingly totally negative behaviour , and this made a difference to Mr E both in relation to his colleagues in the group , and as Dave 's teacher to whom a way out of a vicious circle of perpetual defeat could in this way be illustrated , again without explicitly referring to the analogy of the situation . |
| 28 | If this is an improvised one such as a pierced cake tin , without feet to raise it from the plate on which it drains , set it in the top of a basin , mixing bowl , saucepan , wide jar , or any vessel in which it will fit without actually resting on the bottom . |
| 29 | We 've continued to keep a very hard view of the corn exchange and a number of other bodies which we fund , but we 're going to see what actually happens , we 're not going to make blind predictions about savings without actually going into the facts . |
| 30 | Furthermore , it is not possible to talk about the " type " of thing substance is without actually talking about the substance itself , for substance is by definition one , and any suggestion that there might be different specimens of it is incoherent . |