Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] without a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless what was being demonstrated in the course of 1945 was that — whatever the feelings of affinity that might exist between Britain and the United States — a substantial relationship could not endure without a strong sense of common interests and above all a sense of exposure to common dangers . |
| 2 | With mid-summer approaching , it is hardly the time to reflect on winter festivals , but the success of the kids Christmas party in the canteen on 15th December could not pass without a mention . |
| 3 | Apart from making fun of Li Peng , the main message of the posters was that reform could not succeed without a sound education system , a view widely supported among intellectuals , especially those in the Democratic Alliance . |
| 4 | On the other hand , ‘ society could not exist without a morality which mirrored and supplemented the law 's proscription of conduct injurious to others ’ . |
| 5 | At first I thought that Anthony Trollope , though an amusing writer , was another male author of the nineteenth century who assumed that women could not exist without a man somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 6 | Denis Wrong also points out that other sociologists , such as Homans and Inkeles , realized that sociology could not manage without a theory of human nature , implicit if not explicit , in its theories . |
| 7 | I just could not do without a diary that starts on Monday . |
| 8 | I could not live without a steam iron , or an electric kettle . |
| 9 | The Rectory children were being confined with difficulty in the pew beneath a brass plate Alexandra could not read without a pang , commemorating a young man who had died in the Charge of the Light Brigade , nearly sixty years ago , when he was only 22 , her own age . |
| 10 | Now he knew he could n't manage without a butler . |
| 11 | Feeling a bit like a mechanical doll that could n't function without a key , Hilary meekly stood to one side . |
| 12 | She was a big , bosomy woman who could n't work without a box of biscuits on the desk beside her , and Sarella could hear her now , crunching her way through them . |