Example sentences of "[adv prt] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surprisingly difficult to recognise an overshooting situation until often it is too late to get down without sideslipping and using full airbrake . |
| 2 | ‘ It pays well and has brought valuable jobs , but if the demand for slate drops they will close us down without a second thought , ’ one said . |
| 3 | ‘ Several minutes after we returned , my station officer called me in to his office and warned me that as I was not working by London Ambulance Service guidelines I would be stood down without pay . ’ |
| 4 | In the public-spending round of Government it is certainly true that departments overbid on the basis that when it comes to the crunch they can bring the bid down without damage . |
| 5 | Her friend added : ‘ She also wants to campaign for paper not plastic bags at supermarkets and is angry that the catering industry uses too much plastic in packaging , because it is almost impossible to break down without causing pollution . |
| 6 | They lost over £4,000 dealing with two letting agencies which closed down without paying them the rent and tenants ' deposit owed on their Wembley flat . |
| 7 | But Doherty , 22 , of Dublin , did not go down without a fight and doggedly pursued Hendry all afternoon . |
| 8 | But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest . |
| 9 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 10 | Then he shot his legs up into the sky and slid down without a splash . |
| 11 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 12 | Some genuine truths have been reduced to cant and passed down without explanation . |
| 13 | It is clear that time will be allowed for improvements to be carried out and only when it is clear that there is no prospect of the business in question being able to operate without causing an odour , which amounts to a statutory nuisance , will the court permit the issue of a writ of sequestration for contempt of court , in committing breaches of the undertaking not to cause a statutory nuisance , thus closing the business down without compensation . |
| 14 | Therefore from a local authority 's point of view action under section 100 of the Public Health Act 1936 in respect of a statutory nuisance would be more advantageous than the issue of a discontinuance order because the court , on finding a statutory nuisance , has the power to issue an injunction closing the premises down without compensation should it consider that the only way of abating the odour nuisance . |
| 15 | If parents keep cool and explain fully why they are saying no , they make it easier for their daughter to back down without losing face . |
| 16 | Because of the many hours of sitting that we do , we lose the ability to squat or even the ability to sit down without falling down . |
| 17 | He was trying to read the newspaper upside down without much success . |
| 18 | Now I can walk up hill without puffing and can bend down without grunting . |
| 19 | It is quite likely that when your ferret locates rabbits in a dead-end you will be able to dig down without any serious problems . |
| 20 | If the reports on the Foxbat 's speed and defence capabilities were anywhere near correct , the aircraft should be able to evade any naval attempts to bring it down without much trouble . |
| 21 | That you can carry heavy bags and bend down without a twinge in the back ? |
| 22 | ‘ Once given this information and guidance on how to drink more safely , many people manage to cut down without needing special treatment or counselling ’ ( Alcohol Concern , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | England 's management turned white when scrum-half Garth Wright drove his pack on the offensive , crushing England on a five metre scrum with Richter picking up and plonking down without hindrance . |
| 24 | Hundreds of bullets were let loose — followed by tear-gas and even mortar shells — as protesters were cut down without mercy . |
| 25 | There were these two men there , talking , and one was saying there was trouble at Serenity , some problem about a ship trying to come down without an Eladeldi registration . |
| 26 | The old dog plodded alongside while the younger one careered wildly up and down without managing to distract the sheep who were eager to get home and be relieved of their milk . |
| 27 | All this for an eighteen-year-old who , just over a year before , had been feared — in the context of the time — unmanageable and a little while before that had been sunk down without trace behind the haberdashery counter in Port Talbot 's Co-operative shop . |
| 28 | When worn battened down without a hat , the hood really needs some sort of volume adjuster at the back , or else the soft peak reduced visibility dramatically ( Lowe say they are working on this ) . |
| 29 | The wall-ladder below is unsafe , and requires a successful I test to climb down without falling ( 3 yard fall ) . |
| 30 | Other figures participating in the same religious ceremony wear a cloth robe covering both upper and lower parts of the body and falling straight down without folds or flounces to the ankles . |