Example sentences of "without having [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunting through her case for some lightweight shoes , and wondering if she could get away without having to wear any stockings , she gritted her teeth as she heard her name being called from the other room . |
| 2 | This kind of approach can be very useful since it provides an opportunity for the media to ask questions and get direct answers on the spot , without having to spend valuable time away from the office . |
| 3 | We have certainly noted your desire to help further , without having to give more money yourselves . |
| 4 | Thus I can imagine that animal queues are stabilised by collective resistance , without having to suppose that individual animals perform complex calculations . |
| 5 | This is facilitated by the Stock Exchange Money Brokers ( SEMBs ) , described above in Section 3.2.4 , and enhances the ability of GEMMs to supply large amounts of stock on demand without having always to hold large inventories of stocks or without having to offset large sales by matching purchases in intra-market business . |
| 6 | There seemed no going back on it without having to retail some further lie and anyway I was sick at heart — without The Fat Controller 's gyroscopic girth to encompass it my world was spinning out of control . |
| 7 | ‘ You can point at any object on the screen , click on it and do everything you could possibly do to that object without having to remember any instructions , ’ says Ms Reay . |
| 8 | When a member of parliament was considered to be in a position to influence senior officers ' careers , he might , however , find himself offered minor patronage posts to use as he saw fit , without having to do much to seek them . |
| 9 | Fronting the programme is hard enough without having to do all the leg work as well . |
| 10 | In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board . |
| 11 | Significant changes have been achieved in work organization without having to create additional permanent structures to maintain the momentum of change . |
| 12 | And she 's got quite enough grandchildren without having to borrow other people 's spare babies . " |
| 13 | The user can quickly key in the document without having to take great care not to make mistakes in spelling or layout , as is necessary with a typewriter . |
| 14 | He was vice-chairman of Baldwins Ltd and could get his way in the firm when he wished , without having to take full executive responsibility for what was becoming an increasingly large business . |
| 15 | My first feeling was one of excitement : I was getting all the pleasure of being in a conspiracy without having to take any of the responsibility for it . |
| 16 | As I have said , even as a teenager I knew without having to ask that sexual intercourse would sap whatever magical powers I might have . |
| 17 | Incidentally he was elected without having to pay any fees . |
| 18 | The mouse can be used to drag and drop tables , join fields , etc. to construct quite complex queries without having to enter any complex program codes . |
| 19 | They would benefit from real exchange-rate stability within the European monetary area without having to surrender all discretion over monetary policy — which , even if desirable , would not be feasible . |
| 20 | The advantage of single records is that they can be stored in CKD format — with separate keys — and the track can be scanned for a particular record without having to read unwanted records into main storage . |
| 21 | erm In principle it should be possible to be able to speak into a microphone , or to write on a pad , with a pencil , and the computer would be connected to the microphone or the pad and would take in and interpret what you 've done , without having to learn this rather clumsy method of putting things in one letter at a time . |
| 22 | The second approach is by examining ways in which the parties pay , but without having to find such large sums at the time of the litigation . |
| 23 | My ideal would be a system that allows players to play a high-grade cricket as demanded by a four-day format , with a modicum of one-day cricket and enough gaps in the fixture list to allow players to recover from the demands of persistent cricket , without having to play seven days a week . |
| 24 | dBase IV 1.5 also includes better networking tools , the ability to have up to 40 databases open at once , improved indexing , more sort-and-select options , faster searching and generally a much easier approach to generating small applications without having to write any program code . |
| 25 | We 'll carry on what we 're doing without having to write pop songs to get to Number One . ’ |
| 26 | Fortunately for our sanity , we can say that we know something without having to delve each time into how we know it . |
| 27 | You can back one party or another to win the election , or bet on men arriving from outer space , without having to make any contribution to the costs of the election campaign or the necessary expenses of the men from outer space . |
| 28 | It is hoped that most governors would spend the whole of their service without having to face such an unwelcome decision as the dismissal of a member of staff and would be able to concentrate their efforts on engaging and supporting the best people to carry out the educational tasks for which they were responsible . |
| 29 | They could perhaps find a replacement make-up artist , though that would prove difficult at such short notice , but someone coming in at the last moment would find it hard to cope with the unusual styles , and the actors would be having problems enough dealing with first-night nerves without having to face any added strain . |
| 30 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |