Example sentences of "without [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |
| 2 | Without bringing it to the front of my mind , I sensed that Otto felt himself in competition with me , whilst at the same time seeming imperturbable . |
| 3 | On an impulse , she opened the case and took the violin out , held it and held the bow without applying it to the strings . |
| 4 | Although technically the reform had taken effect on Nov. 1 , Yeltsin told the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet that it was simply impossible to proceed with the Shatalin plan without co-ordinating it with the central government . |
| 5 | The present nature of housing can not be fully understood without relating it to the nature of domestic labour . |
| 6 | It seems that it is impossible — or should be impossible — to discuss any aspect of teachers ' pay , however technical , without relating it to the quality of teachers ' performance and teaching methods . |
| 7 | This quest for the singular , the contingent event which by definition refuses all conceptualization , can clearly be related to the project of constructing a form of knowledge that respects the other without absorbing it into the same . |
| 8 | Multiple use of easier-to-get conventional credit cards could have the effect of removing the present credit limit long-stop defence against overspending , without replacing it by the specially stringent customer vetting process which unlimited credit surely needs . |
| 9 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 10 | Catherine sounded suddenly exhausted , and as she gave him back the cup she turned towards him , letting him see that she had been crying , but without looking him in the face . |
| 11 | At the time of his resignation Miyazawa had stated that an aide , Tsuneo Hattori , had purchased the shares without informing him of the transaction . |
| 12 | Time is regarded as a crucial aspect of experience in English , so that it is virtually impossible to discuss any event in English without locating it in the past , present , or future . |
| 13 | Fishing in deep water Stephano had a powerful run on his mackerel bait and fought a shark for over three quarters of an hour without moving it off the bottom . |
| 14 | First , how dare she assume that our main goal is to walk , without consulting us in the first place . |
| 15 | We believe that it is educationally wrong to teach a subject in isolation without linking it to the outside world . |
| 16 | I used the privacy to make some calls on the house phone without logging them in the red exercise book Mr Goodson had drawing-pinned to the wall . |
| 17 | Some men get just as turned on by nuzzling and licking the cock and balls without taking them in the mouth . |
| 18 | That way , the same effect can be achieved without taking it to the full depth . |
| 19 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 20 | AFTER THE Tunney fiasco , they were n't doing anything without putting it through the full committee structure . |
| 21 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
| 22 | To compel a pupil to obey a teacher makes no sense without placing it in the context of compulsory schooling enforced legally . |
| 23 | The emphasis is on conduct , on leading the reader ‘ on the way to heaven , without intricating him in the labyrinths and wild turnings of questions and uncertain talkings ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Not without telling them about the coins . |
| 25 | She came to realise that any woman who aimed to share his life would always have to be self-sufficient and able to cope with the day-to-day problems of life without bothering him with the minutiae of domestic detail . |
| 26 | Such specimens as we collect are obtained without bothering him in the slightest — smears for chromosome checks , the occasional blood sample , and so on , that 's all . |
| 27 | In cases where the person in breach agrees the facts and the disciplinary action suggested by the executive , the executive itself may deal with a disciplinary matter without referring it to the full Panel . |
| 28 | Sam said , ‘ You 'll be taking my sodding job next , ’ without meaning it in the least , and Nolan , bitter-eyed and cursing , saw Tremayne 's warning glare and subsided with festering rancour . |
| 29 | Steadman , who had been doubtful to play , admitted he was ‘ naive ’ to take the medicine without clearing it with the tour doctor . |
| 30 | This must be at one end of the housing , clear of the other compartments , and then you will be able to slide the glass off this compartment without sliding it off the others . |