Example sentences of "without [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Via full or part-time employment in the NHS , but without completing a re-entry course prior to take up such employment . |
| 2 | He 's a good ol' boy from Alabama who is unable to go any length of time without touching a golf club . |
| 3 | When the glider is desperately low the pilot 's handling often goes to pieces , and he may over-rudder in an effort to get round a final turn without touching a wing-tip or turning any steeper . |
| 4 | This product cleans effectively without producing a mass of foam , so it can be used sparingly . |
| 5 | Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed . |
| 6 | If there is a cancer personality , then I would suggest it is a person who lacked love in infancy , whose sense of inadequacy was high , who harboured their resentments without seeing a way of changing their situation — even in their mind — and who felt badly done by . |
| 7 | I played the fish for ten minutes without seeing a glimpse of it , then fifty metres away a huge fish , shining like a bar of silver , leaped into the air . |
| 8 | — We can walk for days , ’ he says , ‘ without seeing a rock . |
| 9 | There was Pete in his class who really needed to shave twice a day , who had a deep voice and a very hairy chest , and he was a known bender ; and there was Stuart , who could n't look at a cloud or a diagram in TD lessons or even sometimes a house without seeing a version of the female anatomy , and lie was as smooth as a babe . |
| 10 | Television was so quick to join the Yuppie Backlash that there is now a real danger of a Yuppie Backlash Drama Backlash , in which the viewer starts muttering about not being able to switch on the bloody set without seeing a broker being broken . |
| 11 | On any given night you simply could n't see every decent band without inventing a time machine . |
| 12 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 13 | Obviously one wants a language which enables this without demanding a lot of effort merely to be learnt and used at all . |
| 14 | When her husband saw her coming his heart was wrung with anguish , but the two older brothers , without wasting a moment , seized her , tied her hands , and pushed her into a gap in the wall . |
| 15 | Here I am all in one piece if tiny pock-marked from a flying bottle , and trying to settle down and see the war out without firing a shot . |
| 16 | A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons . |
| 17 | Thus , as Bertrand Russell was to point out , the nation could ‘ satisfy [ its ] love of power … without firing a shot . ’ |
| 18 | But this fighter sheered-off without firing a shot , after our rear gunner had given it several short bursts . |
| 19 | Police arrested Santapaola without firing a shot . |
| 20 | It should not be possible to get at the dangerous mains wiring without using a screwdriver or other tool . |
| 21 | Never go out into the sun without using a lotion that screens UVA and UVB rays |
| 22 | It 's rather interesting at the erm book keeping course last Wednesday I I did it all without using a calculator because the examples essentially were quite simple . |
| 23 | The shop ai n't got no proper doors — it 's just like part of the station so you can walk in and out without using a door . |
| 24 | Forty-eight per cent of men in our survey say they definitely would not have sex with a new partner without using a condom , and 23% tend to agree . |
| 25 | The sexual athletes — the men who have had more than 10 partners or who have sex at least 4 times a week — are the most likely to say they would have sex with a new partner without using a condom . |
| 26 | We then proceeded to have straight sex without using a condom . |
| 27 | Here is a way for you to find north and south without using a compass . |
| 28 | Even without using a questionnaire , she found that : |
| 29 | With × 20 it is easy , though I have not been able to obtain any definite resolution into stars without using a telescope . |
| 30 | With × 12 it is easy , and with × 20 quite distinctive , though I have never been able to resolve even its outer parts without using a telescope . |