Example sentences of "but without [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were driven by domestic challenge and external threat to build a powerful State , with the mechanisms for raising resources to finance it , but without a powerful State being the intention ( let alone what was to come later , popular participation and a general nationalism ) . |
| 2 | I really , strongly do not want to be ruled by such people — people with America 's political correctness , but without the American love of liberty ; people with the Continent 's dirigisme , but without a Continental breadth of culture ; people with a modern metropolitan 's contempt for his own country 's traditions , but a bumpkin 's ignorance of economics . |
| 3 | He attended a primary school some miles away and tried secondary schools but without a great deal of success . |
| 4 | But without a political deal it risks turning bad . |
| 5 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 6 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 7 | And we know him as self-centred , selfish and idle , yet one of the shrewdest politicians , but without a constructive idea in his head and with an amazing ignorance of Indian and foreign affairs and of the real values of political life . |
| 8 | But without a familiar fugure . |
| 9 | They are like miniature temples : one gabled room , entered through a columned porch but without a surrounding colonnade . |
| 10 | These are closest to the Japanese and German ways , but without a main bank to act as kingpin . |
| 11 | These developments were the minutiae by which an intrinsically superior sparkling wine came to be refined , but without a raw product of unique potential there would have been nothing to refine . |
| 12 | It has said , ’ We do not have the power to have a statutory canvass , but without a statutory canvass , we do not know the real position . |
| 13 | His outline programme included a 100-day package to curb inflation , a declared intention to make the forint into a convertible currency ( but without a specified target date ) , and a commitment to land reforms , as demanded by the Smallholders who had campaigned on the single issue of returning farmland to its pre-1947 owners ; agriculture was to become primarily based on private ownership , with encouragement for family farms and voluntary co-operatives , although a limited number of state farms would also remain in existence . |
| 14 | The process is similar to doing a jigsaw puzzle , but without a clear pattern on each piece . |
| 15 | Pascal Lissouba , leader of the Pan-African Union for Social Democracy ( UPADS ) , was victorious in presidential elections held in August , UPADS having emerged as the largest party , but without a clear majority in either chamber , in the legislative elections in June and July . |
| 16 | Lucky Langdon , who is not normally a cautious person , believes this is unlikely , given the current opinion poll rating , and that the best bet wold be the Conservatives winning the most seats , but without an overall majority — thus returning them to power as a minority government . |
| 17 | The next two Tours were won by Swiss riders , Ferdi Kubler and Hugo Koblet , popular men but without an impassioned following . |
| 18 | I can not foretell what proposals it will contain , but without an effective ceasefire no one can be deployed . |
| 19 | Certainly , the polyps on their long stalks provide a certain amount of cover for the fish , but without the strong stings that protect clownfish in anemones . |
| 20 | By the 1840s naturalists were depicting relationships in two dimensions but without the orderly pattern of circles , producing images of relationships similar to geographical maps . |
| 21 | Well it sounds like an improvement , but without the financial commitment and the political will then I 'm afraid that the erm , the ideaology and the principles will all for nought . |
| 22 | A hundred years on and the scene at Balcombe is much the same ; trains faster and far more frequent are still thundering through the tunnel but without the cheering villagers to wave them on their way . |
| 23 | Some of them look and behave like the original gaseous protostar , but without the necessary mass to generate internal heat . |
| 24 | Here we have a co-production of mini-series ambitions , but without the necessary budget or pomposity to puff out to epic proportions . |
| 25 | The only possible response from the independents would be to also reduce their fares but without the cross-funding safety net . |
| 26 | The Hebrew blessing of thanks for deliverance from danger sprang to his mind , but without the requisite minyan of ten males to make the obligatory responses he was unable to recite it . |
| 27 | In December 1967 Nato officially replaced the strategy of massive retaliation with that of flexible response , but without the enlarged conventional forces which McNamara and other American proponents of this strategy had originally envisaged . |
| 28 | Of similar champion qualities but without the rough and tumble approach of the male Connors , is the feminine German , Steffi Graf , who was born around the time that Connors was striding into the competitive world of senior international tennis . |
| 29 | The procedure is exactly the same when you fly on instruments ; but without the external visual references . |
| 30 | They are the tools through which life manifests and functions on the material plane , but without the animating principle — the life force or vital energy — they are nothing more than complex chemistry . |