Example sentences of "but [adv] without [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is tempting to wonder what Smart 's genius could have been had he not been tormented by madness ; but perhaps without the enhanced perception that came with illness , he would not have written at all . |
| 2 | It 's a bit like us watching a what 's name film with the words up , but only without the words , it 's like us watching that , to him . |
| 3 | They will certainly leave the Centre much fitter than When they arrived , but not without a few bumps and bruises sustained along the way . |
| 4 | Of course it is piffle , but not without a streak of crazy intelligence . |
| 5 | ‘ I have made this decision with some regret — but not without a great deal of thought . ’ |
| 6 | His voice is strong , stark and brooding , but not without a certain amount of tenderness on occasion . |
| 7 | It may help to improve the control guidelines , but not without a commitment to improve training for those who have to implement them . |
| 8 | Aberdeen has a feeling of true foreign-ness , a different flavour — ; Scottish , undoubtedly , and therefore brisk and organised , but not without a feel of Norse and beyond . |
| 9 | Her final paintings , when she was dying of cancer , of storms and approaching storms , are most urgent , assured and disturbing , but not without a characteristic sweet humanity . |
| 10 | Probably , but not without a change in management personnel . |
| 11 | The figures demonstrate something about the characteristics of people with dementia referred to psychogeriatricians : that they are on average around 80 years of age , mainly women , mainly widowed or single , quite likely to be living alone but not without the involvement of relatives or friends , and with fairly advanced dementia ( assuming that this is the implication of a score of nearly seven on a scale , running from one to ten , designed mainly to measure impairment of memory ) . |
| 12 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 13 | The seal might be broken , the string might be cut — but not without the owner discovering later that his privacy had been invaded . |
| 14 | But not without the ballast that just saves Gregory from run-of-the-mill frippery. at this stage we are trowel-fed our socialist message when Meridon , aka Sarah , Last of the Laceys , is torn between the current management of her inherited estate as one of the popular communes of 18th-century England , run as a profit-share system by the workers , and the sweet novelties of high-society capitalism . |
| 15 | We can function perfectly well with less defence and fewer new roads but not without the public sector , who have already become pretty demoralised . |
| 16 | She can manoeuvre her wheelchair in the confined spaces of her present home but not without the occasionally shunt and collision . |
| 17 | Genuine covert work , perhaps ; but not without an element of cinema . |
| 18 | DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook . |
| 19 | But even without the blank cheques originally promised , enough has been achieved in the 22 months since the Socialists came to power to make sure French research will never be the same again . |
| 20 | The action is smooth and buzz-free all over the fingerboard , but even without the humungous strings and the heavy action this is still a pretty beefy-feeling beast — definitely not a Strat for the lily-fingered . |
| 21 | But even without the sanction of separate waiting-rooms or toilets , caste continued to condition the reaction of Indians to each other . |
| 22 | But even without the figures it takes very little imagination to see why this council must not put off any longer the construction and commissioning of the southern fire station . |
| 23 | Cricket 's world cup in Australia and the England A tour to the West Indies has denuded Worcester 's squad but even without the likes of Hick , Rhodes Illingworth , there 's no way South Africa feels its being short changed . |