Example sentences of "without [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One veteran observer of the New York museum scene summarised the insular society 's predicament : ‘ During the 60s , 70s and 80s when all other institutions realised that there was no way that they could build up an endowment without catering to the masses and without appealing to the federal government , museums went with cap in hand ; they saw this was now the game . |
| 2 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 3 | Nagel 's profound point is that even where the agent is at the mercy of fate , and though it seems irrational upon reflection , our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without attributing to the agent responsibility and culpability in a wide range of cases of moral luck . |
| 4 | It 's very difficult to attempt self definition without relating to the occupational world , and you get into the sort of situation where women only have private selves , they do n't have public selves at all , which certainly creates problems of self definition for them . |
| 5 | It will have instructed the Parliamentary Draftsman on the preparation of the Bill ; he will have drafted it ( though probably not without returning to the department on a number of occasions for clarification of instructions or to point out to the department any legal or constitutional difficulties encountered in implementing the instructions ) . |
| 6 | One last thing — the caves are radioactive , and the longer Jeremy stays underground without returning to the darkroom , the more he gets contaminated ! |
| 7 | ‘ I read the letters between him and his brother and it became clear he could n't even buy petrol on the New Jersey turnpike without writing to the petrol company about being over-charged . |
| 8 | The company 's system cleaned soot from the blackened limestone and brick without damaging to the venerable surfaces . |
| 9 | Therefore , without looking to the policy of this agreement , I think it is void for want of consideration , and that the plaintiff can only recover at the rate of £5 a month . |
| 10 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 11 | This type of explanation may help us to understand the one-sided nature of exchange relationships with the Continent , noting also that the English probably had no direct access to a valuable and durable raw material without going to the extent of deep mining . |
| 12 | Often , however , it is clear that the commissioners took over an existing track between two villages and straightened it a little , without going to the extreme length of drawing entirely new roads . |
| 13 | There was also a large new bookshop and several shops selling stationery and filing cabinets and offering the opportunity of faxing or photocopying documents of such significance that they must be duplicated , but Camille 's mother could not buy a mop bucket or a length of elastic or a wheel of cheese without going to the centre of town . |
| 14 | We can reveal he plans to invest about a hundred and fifteen million of his own money without going to the bank , much of it 's for planes , staff and facilities , but we discovered he 's just used forty five million to buy out Saboo Saison the airline 's Japanese shareholder . |
| 15 | Luckily , as most of us have neither the money nor the time to undertake major remodelling , it is quite possible to make significant changes without going to the bank for a loan or calling in a builder . |
| 16 | This seems to be a rather narrow and limiting definition , and it could be refuted by pointing out that both subject knowledge and research methodology could equally well be tested by examination , without going to the additional effort of writing a thesis . |
| 17 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 18 | A little idiosyncratic , I think , my appearance — but without going to the slightly absurd lengths of ginger hair and freckles . |
| 19 | ‘ I can do without going to the hospital ? |
| 20 | Norman Beaton 's mischievous , avuncular Doc , though , squeezes all the gentle humour from the lilting , dialogue without succumbing to the temptation to twinkle . |
| 21 | 5. such work will also help pupils approach the diversity of religious beliefs in an open and non-dogmatic way without succumbing to the relativism which tends to regard different beliefs as just a matter of opinion . |
| 22 | They drive at good-length balls without getting to the pitch and loft strokes over the heads of the inner ring of fieldsmen . |
| 23 | To continue , the user should enter Y ( Yes ) and press RETURN ; to stop without proceeding to the module entry phase , the user should enter N ( No ) . |
| 24 | ( 14 ) Are there any strategies you can use to help pupils prepare for the tests without teaching to the test ? |
| 25 | The program is menu driven but one of the best features is the ability to input new data at practically any stage , i.e. if you are entering an invoice and the product does not exist you are able to create it there and then without exiting to the previous menus . |
| 26 | It was then that Olazabal wept , made no speeches and quickly and quietly left the course without speaking to the press . |
| 27 | This does not mean that the intellectual therefore nihilistically celebrates dispersion , fragmentation or relativity : rather she or he is the person who , facing such dispersion but without conceding to the nostalgic desire for totalization , poses the questions and constitutes the series and continuities for analysis — and thus for transformation — while attempting to respect its heterogeneity . |
| 28 | In countries where large proportions of goods and services are produced by those who consume them or are exchanged on a very small scale without coming to the market , estimates have to be made , and these are of varying accuracy . |
| 29 | However , she said she would now prefer to try to cope without coming to the hospital but would also said she was sure she would not take a further overdose . |
| 30 | This , if it needs to be made more precise , is what we need to concentrate on , as some others have before , although without coming to the conclusion we shall reach . |