Example sentences of "without [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He lacked the skill to talk without revealing the hashed contents of his meal . |
| 4 | He blamed the European Community being preoccupied with keeping farm gate prices down without applying the same rules to pubs and shops . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was enough to outrage the Loyalists without satisfying the Civil Rights movement at all . |
| 9 | It consumes many times the global budget of the UNHCR in supporting a self-selecting minority , without addressing the real problems that lie behind the asylum-seeking flows . |
| 10 | The pack is very comfortable with heavy loads ( 23+kg ) , due in the main to the excellent hipbelt which spreads the weight over the hips without causing the sore spots that occur with some belts . |
| 11 | Early and limited spraying in spring then kills most of the remaining weevils and the fleahoppers , without decimating the natural enemies of bollworm and budworm . |
| 12 | Put simply , Mr Erlich , I have an intelligence agent of a foreign country going about his activities without informing the local authorities of his work … |
| 13 | It is unlikely that there is a way to build on the positive features without overcoming the negative features . |
| 14 | The elaborate four-track layout completed in 1925 allowed cars to reverse without impeding the through cars . |
| 15 | In July a Pravda editorial had attacked perestroika for creating a new bureaucracy without solving the old problems . |
| 16 | Without considering the individual cases , he was to have decided whether the Government can be sued over its policy on allocation of resources . |
| 17 | By contrast , the sun could not have stopped , on the Ptolemaic interpretation , without violating the interconnected motions of the spheres . |
| 18 | This gradual progression means that children can really assimilate and enjoy each stage in the learning process without experiencing the negative effects of frustration . |
| 19 | ‘ Where that can be comfortably done without infringing the other objectives then I am perfectly prepared to see how flexible we can make the franchise . ’ |
| 20 | In that way , Sir William was able indirectly to indulge his penchant for meddling in the basic work of the force , without upsetting the senior officers . |
| 21 | It would involve the abandonment of rigid conceptualism : the rejection , in other words , of a formal mechanical set of criteria adding up to the concept of adultery which allows hard problems to be solved with apparent ease by simply referring to a formula without examining the deeper issues of justice involved in the case . |
| 22 | ( My own opinion is that , owing to the pressure of time , it is best if the senior member alone gives the judgment without consulting the other members . |
| 23 | Another group of children arrived but they joined their friends by the water without approaching the two men . |
| 24 | Extremely long lengths of gutter for Austin Rover on its ‘ Flight Shed ’ building at Longbridge are shown after relining with an in situ GRP gutter lining system without disturbing the existing gutters and also maintaining their full flow capacity |
| 25 | Which simplifications are admissible without losing the essential characteristics of the problem ? |
| 26 | The shareholders had clearly manifested an intention to sell their shares and could not continue with the sale without giving the other shareholders a right to exercise their option under the articles . |
| 27 | John Selwyn Gummer , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food There is no point in producing a list of microwave ovens without giving the detailed instructions so that those using them can improve their performance . |
| 28 | These qualifications , awarded as a result of school studies , will give an introduction to the working world , without having the practical aspects and applications of NVQs . |
| 29 | In the world of youth or pop culture , Britain , without reaching the frenetic heights of the years of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the sixties , remained a market leader , with rock festivals taking place in such unlikely locations as Windsor Great Park and Stonehenge . |
| 30 | The objective function of any LP can be multiplied by any positive constant without affecting the optimal solution(s) . |