Example sentences of "[not/n't] [be] understand without " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , whilst corporate crime can not be understood without grasping the fact that it stems from contradictions between a corporation 's goal(s) and its environment , that understanding remains one-sided if individuals are left out of the analysis . |
| 2 | Patterns of support between kin can not be understood without first making some reference to the ways in which the structure of the population , and patterns of family formation associated with it , have themselves changed over time . |
| 3 | Both the local and national matter , and what is going on in history will not be understood without reference to both . |
| 4 | It can not be understood without reference to the growing land hunger and militancy of millions of peasants . |
| 5 | by no means all purists identified with feminism , but the rapid growth of the women 's movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century can not be understood without reference to the purity crusades , which drew thousands of women into the political arena for the first time . |
| 6 | While not wishing to deny that there are differences in the ways executives , bureaucracies and assemblies operate compared with law courts , we suggest that the politics of any system can not be understood without some awareness of the crucial part played by law in its operations . |
| 7 | It will look both at large-scale historical transformations , and at the responses and perceptions of the local Andean population , since the present crisis affecting highland Bolivia can not be understood without taking into account its historical and cultural roots . |
| 8 | Their political passivity about these communal services ca n't be understood without taking into account the benefit of keeping it all in the family — for men it secured their surveillance over the time and labour of women . |