Example sentences of "not do without " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And except for ministers , of course — we can not do without them ; or schoolmasters — the Lord Lieutenants will need them to draw up more lists and sign away more lives when the six thousand have bled and died in France , or Spain , or India . ’ |
| 2 | We can not do without his cunning , or his tinker friends . |
| 3 | Of course they had , and remembering had made them examine their arrangements more closely to see if they could not do without their man-servant . |
| 4 | But we have already seen above that we can not do without an intensification of growth , the development of this petty-bourgeois farm . |
| 5 | We all use them much of the time and could not do without them . |
| 6 | Metering would mean they would be paying an unjustifiably high price for a service that they can not do without , ’ says Chairman Lady Wilcox . |
| 7 | These are obvious , though complicated-sounding , examples of the sort of indispensable presuppositions or faith-assumptions which we can not do without . |
| 8 | They can not do without the people on the floor — the athletes . ’ |
| 9 | In the end you have to become part of the establishment , Gareth , but never let them remove or circumscribe your right of free speech ; you use it too well and the rest of us can not do without it . |
| 10 | Althusser 's mistake , according to Hirst , was to attempt to construct another philosophy of history ; but any theory of history , he contends , can not do without teleology , spirituality ( the realization of the Idea ) , and the continuum . |
| 11 | In this context , we may recall that Althusser , rather than simply criticizing the notion of history as a totality as Foucault often tended to do , argued for the rearticulation of different histories within a decentred totality , on the assumption that history can not do without one . |
| 12 | Law knew that " a year 's peerages have been hypothecated " even before he became leader , and he probably knew that the party could not do without this source of income . |
| 13 | If you really can not do without salt , then use a very small amount only . |
| 14 | ‘ Reality , ’ said Mr Broadhurst , ‘ love it , hate it , you can not do without it . |
| 15 | For ‘ proposing to carry lemons with us to Sky [ sic ] that he might be sure to have his lemonade ’ , Johnson ticked off Boswell — on two counts : that he , Sam , did not wish to be viewed as someone who could not do without his preferences ; and that it was ‘ very bad manners to carry provisions to any man 's house , as if he could not entertain you . |
| 16 | Spiders can go long periods between meals but can not do without moisture — becoming dehydrated very quickly . |
| 17 | She knew that Nicandra could not do without her . |
| 18 | One will not do without the other . |
| 19 | and sweepers who I always represented , and though I am now retired , I can not do without them . |
| 20 | I just could not do without a diary that starts on Monday . |
| 21 | They 've been engaged for a year , and it was decided the wedding could take place during August , when there is just routine spraying and pruning to be done , well before the vendange itself , when I can not do without him . ’ |
| 22 | But it could not do without its law students who brought business and fame and brilliance to the town . |
| 23 | The Captain 's name is I. McKeller and the mates Murray so you see we can not do without your countrymen and candidly I shall place my life in their hands with the utmost confidence . |
| 24 | we could not do without . |
| 25 | What he can not do without infringing the duty of fidelity is to make such preparations in his employer 's time or use or disclose either the business secrets or trade connections of his employer . |
| 26 | Or was it the pleasure of having men 's eyes on you that you could not do without ? ’ |
| 27 | I 'm not doing without a holiday because I 'm feeling hard up though , but because I do n't particularly want one . ’ |
| 28 | But , as Porfiry tells him , ‘ You ca n't do without us ' . |
| 29 | All the same , Jane stayed on to within a month of the birth because they could n't do without her and she needed the money . |
| 30 | ‘ Could n't do without the fish and chips , ’ Maggie agreed . |