Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first day without her pills , Clare grew increasingly depressed and agitated . |
| 2 | The last epidemic in Britain was in 1900–5 ; 1935 was the first year without a smallpox death , by 1941 there were no cases . |
| 3 | They had started the first course without her . |
| 4 | The first mention of £100 clearly demands an ‘ at least ’ interpretation ; what Arthur has is ‘ exactly ’ £100 ; one might therefore not expect the it of the second sentence to be able to refer anaphorically to £100 in the first sentence without antagonism . |
| 5 | Having reviewed the authorities which dealt with the construction of restraint of trade clauses , the court applied the following rules : ( a ) The question of construction should be approached in the first instance without regard to the question of legality or illegality. ( b ) The clause should be construed with reference to the object sought to be obtained . |
| 6 | Any attempts to explain the first map without the controls indicated on the second would be nonsensical . |
| 7 | It was the first day the wharf walk had been reopened to the public and the first night without a PC on guard at the scene of the crime . |
| 8 | The octopus will be the first animal without a backbone to be protected under regulations that already cover experiments on vertebrates . |
| 9 | In order to compare the two modes of measurement two sets of readings were taken at the shortest possible interval , 15 seconds , the first set without the filter , the second set with it . |
| 10 | These efforts have proved — regrettably — to be unsuccessful , and the essay is therefore printed here for the first time without its owner 's permission . |
| 11 | THE ORGANISERS of the World Student Games to be held in Sheffield in 1991 intend to foot the bill for the Games , which will have to be staged for the first time without direct financial help from the host government , by raising £18m through sponsorship . |
| 12 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |
| 13 | Try looking at people , objects and places as if you are seeing them for the first time without being influenced by what you have known about them in the past . |
| 14 | Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions . |
| 15 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 16 | In this journey , in which we are all engaged , it is photography which has allowed him to achieve something for the first time without struggling — given him a means of craft and communication which feels right and matches his natural capacities as well as being able to respond to his intuition . |
| 17 | We pray for those who are sad because it has been the first Christmas without a loved one , and who grieve with their memories . |
| 18 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which one of the parties received a proposal submitted according to the first item without the parties agreeing to appoint the one arbitrator , his appointment is done by the appointing authority which the parties agreed to name . |
| 19 | Kim Young Sam , the first president without a military background to be elected in South Korea since 1960 , topped the poll in every region apart from Seoul — where he won 36 per cent of the vote compared with 37.6 per cent for Kim Dae Jung — and Kim Dae Jung 's home region of south-west Cholla province . |
| 20 | " All right , " she accepted the first bath without hesitation , " shall I leave the water in for you ? " |
| 21 | Both nevertheless bring their full lyrical assuagement , the songful second subject in the first movement without the disruptive over- slowing of tempo sometimes heard . |
| 22 | How could they have come into existence in the first place without malicious midwives ? |
| 23 | up there in the first place without anything . |
| 24 | Tell me , it 's , it 's probably quite an expensive thing to do in the first place without having to , to , to bring home , home some money for charity in the end , how have you gone about doing it ? |