Example sentences of "without [v-ing] any [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether by accident or design , they managed to go around without seeing any of the others and Maggie allowed herself to be selfish . |
| 2 | The next morning , without seeing any of the family , who were heaven knew where , she made herself some breakfast under the smiling gaze of Rose or Mary — she did n't know which — and before she could get into a worry as to whether Feargal had meant his offer to take her to Carlingford he walked in through the back door . |
| 3 | This holds the pressed plant material in place allowing you to build up a design without dislodging any of the flowers you have already arranged . |
| 4 | So not only do you get a full commercial system , but you also reap the benefits of a set-up which has been tailor-made for the hotel trade , without sacrificing any of the functions . |
| 5 | And so you 've got to be like a bloody monkey and you 've got to climb up the side of the van and climb along the side of the van without damaging any of the furniture right to the front to find the box to bring it back again . |
| 6 | Thus Geoffrey Cowdrill , after spending 22 years with the TSB , decided to invest his future in an Athena franchise without investigating any of the other packages on offer . |
| 7 | To women , entering the trade without undergoing any of the initiation rites , excluded from the union , the whole business of fat and lean — one of the first things a boy apprentice would learn about — can have meant little . |
| 8 | If a Tribunal refuses to consider a fact as relevant or operates an exclusion without considering any of the facts , this is a mistake of law and an appeal will be appropriate . |
| 9 | These can all be applied to existing vines but without removing any of the top foliage , the advantage being that if the new scion fails to take , the vine still lives and further attempts can be made . |
| 10 | For doors with both full nylon and full mesh panels , make sure the mesh is on the outside so that you can open the weatherproof door without letting any of the baddies in . |
| 11 | And then at a Cabinet meeting of Unionist Ministers it was decided to have the General Election and go to the country at once ( without consulting any of the party ) under the L.G. banner as Coalitionists . |
| 12 | ‘ You could cut this paragraph without losing any of the impact . |
| 13 | Ian Stewart has done a first-rate job of translation , preserving the scientific content without losing any of the humour . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted a really good box that I could work from , or that someone could work for me — which is what happens nine times out of ten — and then run direct into the amplifier without losing any gain , without gaining any hum and without losing any of the real naturalness of the Fender Strat and the Vox amp . ’ |
| 15 | Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound . |
| 16 | Files produced by software such as Word , WordPerfect and Wordstar can all be directly read into desktop publishing software like PageMaker or Ventura without losing any of the formatting . |
| 17 | On this occasion , their leaders have dragged their heels at every stage , without giving any of the ideas a chance . |
| 18 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 19 | But of course it would be possible to go through the behavioural motions of requesting without having any of the requisite beliefs and intentions . |
| 20 | The only exceptions to the sequential rule are inserts , which can be added in without affecting any of the other material provided that they are of the same length as the material which they are replacing . |
| 21 | The chips have to be separated from their sockets without bending any of the pins and once removed they must be stored in an anti-static environment . |
| 22 | Without putting any of the test crew on the rail , she shot along close-hauled at a full seven knots in a true wind speed of 16 knots and shed only 2½ knots during our smarter tacks . |
| 23 | One exception , imaginatively titled ‘ Gulf War : The Board Game ’ , comes from a Malaysian company that discovered it could change an America v Russia contest into a Gulf version without rewriting any of the rules . |
| 24 | For example , in the situation shown at cell ( 5,7 ) in Figure 6.2 the stream is moved back one cell towards the source , without altering any of the 1s and 0s , until the stream can move in a different direction . |
| 25 | Applications built with it will be portable across different graphical user interfaces and automatically run under Microsoft Corp 's Windows , the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh , OSF/Motif and other environments without changing any of the code , Oracle claims , automatically conforming to the native look-and-feel of each graphical environment in which it is run . |
| 26 | Applications built with it will be portable across different graphical user interfaces and automatically run under Microsoft Corp 's Windows , the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh , OSF/Motif and other environments without changing any of the code . |
| 27 | Whatever sort you have , make sure there 's enough room for your feet without compressing any of the filling within the bag . |
| 28 | In such associations , each partner is inevitably modified ; colours may be intensified or assimilated ; commonalities may be enhanced in ways that enable perceptual abstractions to be made without relinquishing any of the context from which the singled out entities draw life . |
| 29 | You have exited the option without updating any of the existing data . |
| 30 | The trick is to shoot the baddies without hitting any of the townsfolk . |