Example sentences of "without [v-ing] [art] whole [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is normally impossible to display all the components of an expanded system model in the same plane ( without using the whole wall of an office ! ) , so they were also shown as a hierarchical scalar , an example of which is given in Fig 11.6 . |
| 2 | • If you find it hard to eat one chocolate or biscuit without devouring the whole packet , but an individually wrapped serving . |
| 3 | It is hard to give an example without reprinting the whole correspondence , but we have had articles rejected when our reading of the referees ' reports was that the article merited publishing . |
| 4 | It allows matters of lesser importance to be decided without troubling the whole Cabinet ; and major issues to be clarified in order to save the time of the Cabinet . |
| 5 | Many chemical treatments are effective in killing active fungi in wood but , in an old and complicated structure , the practical difficulty may be to reach the diseased parts without pulling the whole structure expensively to bits . |
| 6 | Handrails fixed directly to the wall can be most easily refixed securely with window frame fixings , as you can do this without removing the whole rail . |
| 7 | They can then find their own way to the bathroom without disturbing the whole house . |
| 8 | Neil is reluctant to talk about the songs in any more detail : ‘ Like my good friend Bob says , a song is just a thought ; you ca n't really talk about a little part of it without taking the whole thing into consideration . ’ |
| 9 | and it 's very difficult to have a close look at the shirt without taking the whole thing |
| 10 | The first piece of advice that 's necessary is that you should n't just try to be fashionable by choosing juicy speeches that catch your eye without knowing the whole play and having a working idea of how to perform the speech . |
| 11 | Or without extending the whole process so that it takes nearly a year to change anything ? |
| 12 | When you are doing small jobs , such as inserting a tee junction into a pipe , you may be able to do this without draining the whole system down . |
| 13 | Yet West Germany was soon an independent member of NATO , a de facto situation that could not be reversed against the will of the Federal Republic without disrupting the whole alliance . |
| 14 | A few strategic blows with a hammer will achieve this without shattering the whole thing , but it 's prudent to first bail out as much water as possible from the trap . |