Example sentences of "without [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now , without slicing through the fan-belt |
| 32 | An entertaining example of animals solving the same problem as the swimming rats , but with land and water reversed , is the ability of a tide-pool fish , the goby , to jump from one pool to another without landing on the rock between . |
| 33 | This study was to examine whether ‘ fit ’ patients over the age of 50 who require elective surgery for ulcerative colitis are suitable candidates for restorative proctocolectomy , providing that they are continent berore operation and that the anal sphincter is preserved in its entirety without stripping of the mucosa or endoanal anastomosis . |
| 34 | Without appearing over the newspaper , Pa says irritably , ‘ What 's the matter with that animal ? |
| 35 | We show you how to use the library without mooning along the shelves , but by using the index and other efficient methods of communication . |
| 36 | ‘ I read the letters between him and his brother and it became clear he could n't even buy petrol on the New Jersey turnpike without writing to the petrol company about being over-charged . |
| 37 | IF you want to make a splash at the Christmas party without sinking into the red , it 's easy to make your own outfit . |
| 38 | Like Bakhtin , Lecercle manages these moves without sinking into the quagmire of Marxism ; language may be a structure " erected on the unstable basis of contradiction and strife " ( p. 187 ) , but it is not a game in which there will ever be winners or losers — it will just go on being what it uncontrollably is , for it speaks us as much as we it . |
| 39 | Essentially the message is that nobody knows how far community care can be made to stretch without snapping under the strain . |
| 40 | Steel columns and beams , and concrete walls reinforced with steel rods , make the frames flexible — and even ductile , so that they can deform without snapping in the wind . |
| 41 | The final consideration is whether the particular radiation is absorbed by the living material , and thus passes on its energy to it ; or is reflected from the surface , leaving little energy behind ; or simply passes straight through , without interacting with the atoms of the living flesh . |
| 42 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 43 | Industrialists , who have acquired power and influence without passing through the mollifying tunnel of public school , Oxbridge and the professions , have always represented a potential challenge to the old order . |
| 44 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 45 | Sublimation is the change from solid to gas on heating and from gas to solid on cooling without passing through the liquid phase . |
| 46 | The bypass for example allowing people to move round er Greater York without passing through the er through the city centre and I think that 's par part of the County Council and I suspect City Council 's overall approach to traffic management in Greater York . |
| 47 | NEXT loop without passing through the NEXT statement . |
| 48 | The company 's system cleaned soot from the blackened limestone and brick without damaging to the venerable surfaces . |
| 49 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 50 | She went on her way to bed without pausing for the goodnight kiss that he had forgotten . |
| 51 | Regulation 34(1) states that if a view to the front can be obtained without looking through the windscreen , wipers are not required . |
| 52 | Without looking through the source file I would n't be able to tell . |
| 53 | In the morning in Jacksonville , I shaved and dressed , listening to the television without looking at the pictures . |
| 54 | He walked down the hill without looking at the dead men , slowly and with difficulty and pain . |
| 55 | Mary was still standing by the bed when her mother came into the room and , without looking at the bed , walked over to where grandfather kept his emergency money , usually about £1,000 . |
| 56 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 57 | Nellie was very good and a natural musician who could play without looking at the piano which meant she could watch the dancing at the same time . |
| 58 | He walks out of the shrine without looking at the crowd , picks up one of the lambs , frightened and bleating , and carries its almost weightless body round to the side of the shrine . |
| 59 | They are then invited to try and throw them in a basket one at a time without looking at the value . |
| 60 | But after a while he soon knew large chunks of the play off by heart and could occasionally prompt without looking at the book . |