Example sentences of "but [noun sg] without [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As I am fully conscious of the importance of preserving national unity , I propose to give your Government complete support in the vigorous prosecution of the War ; but unity without action is nothing but futile carnage , and I can not be responsible for that .
2 Their motto put in a nutshell the place of training in relation to other advisory inputs : ‘ la theorie sans pratique est absurde , mais la pratique sans theorie est aveugle ’ — ‘ theory without practice is absurd but practice without theory is blind ’ .
3 I can not live without you but marriage without love is insupportable .
4 But chance without restraint is chaos .
5 ‘ Poverty is not now the cause of adolescent difficulties ’ , we learned , ‘ but materialism without effort has replaced it . ’
6 What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power , but power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot through the ages . ’
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