Example sentences of "without [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A codicil is really a supplementary will , and is generally used for making some alteration in a will without revoking it as a whole . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | informal rejection or acceptance of the planning proposal , without expressing it at a formal level |
| 13 | ‘ I du n no where though , without transporting them in a lorry . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’ |
| 16 | At the time of his resignation Miyazawa had stated that an aide , Tsuneo Hattori , had purchased the shares without informing him of the transaction . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In time the dog should come to accept your slippers without viewing them as a potential threat . |
| 20 | First , how dare she assume that our main goal is to walk , without consulting us in the first place . |
| 21 | Apply it with a roller in a thin , even coat and let it dry without disturbing it for a good 24 hours . |
| 22 | We believe that it is educationally wrong to teach a subject in isolation without linking it to the outside world . |
| 23 | I assume this can go ahead immediately , without tying us to a detailed course outline . |
| 24 | I do suggest that you never lead the mare in or out without having her on a lungeing cavesson and rope or a bridle with reins … a headcollar and rope is INSUFFICIENT . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Some men get just as turned on by nuzzling and licking the cock and balls without taking them in the mouth . |
| 27 | That way , the same effect can be achieved without taking it to the full depth . |
| 28 | He had , in effect , stumbled without recognizing it into a major new area of understanding of the chemistry of brain function . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | AFTER THE Tunney fiasco , they were n't doing anything without putting it through the full committee structure . |