Example sentences of "without [adv] [v-ing] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The APB can not ignore such strong criticisms , but it can not accept them without badly damaging its credibility . |
| 2 | As Gray and Jenkins ( 1985 , p. 165 ) put it , the FMI ‘ might allow a change in the public image of accountability without much affecting its practice ’ . |
| 3 | However , by two grave tactical errors , they frittered away this supremacy without ever realising its value . |
| 4 | The ending of the novel is too pat and contrived , but in the course of it Tabucchi has created an India which is constantly surprising and challenging to the European traveller/narrator/reader without ever allowing its mysticism or its exoticism to run away with it , for the sub-continent is also an ironically observed tourists ' India of hotels , buses , taxis , sights and restaurants . |
| 5 | Even without this complication , however , the need to allow the transcriptional machinery access to the DNA without permanently disrupting its protein packaging is a demanding one . |
| 6 | This system is so sophisticated that the owl can locate and memorise the position of a rustle without even moving its head and , as it swoops , it can align its claws along a mouse 's body guided only by sound . |
| 7 | And when the other cows were taken out in the morning and brought home in the evening , it stood there without even turning its head . |
| 8 | It should always be used with definite intention — never mechanically added to the ensemble without consciously imagining its effect . |
| 9 | Perhaps because my own PhD , many years before , had been taken up with working on protein phosphorylation without fully realizing its significance ( Chapter 3 ) the temptation to explore it in the chick proved irresistible . |