Example sentences of "they can [not/n't] be [verb] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buddha warned men not to rely on mantras , incantations , sacrifices , rites and ceremonies ; he insisted that they can not be saved without their own co-operation . |
| 2 | That can not be said to be a full description of reason within the disciplines , for they can not be sustained without values and judgement . |
| 3 | There is no independently characterisable subclass of dogs for which being a pet is a necessary or canonical trait ( lap-dogs do not count , because they can not be distinguished without invoking the characteristic of pet-hood ) ; nor are there distinguishable sub-types of pet which are canonically or necessarily dogs ( except , of course , lap-dogs , which do not count here , either , and for parallel reasons ) . |
| 4 | A different , and in some respects more constructive , approach adopted by some international lawyers ( especially Cassese , 1979 ) points to the weakness in terms of effective enforcement of a prohibition of weapons based only on the argument that they can not be used without violation of the general principles of the humanitarian law of war . |
| 5 | This reactive approach is exemplified by realising , at the time when problems arise , that they can not be solved without adequate information . |