Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [not/n't] without " in BNC.

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1 But vets are not without blame .
2 As discussed in section 6.2.3 , FC policies are not without their critics ( e.g. Shoard 1987 ) ; many conservationists believe that the widespread use of alien conifers is neither environmentally nor aesthetically beneficial to the British landscape .
3 Yes well , for the experimental aircraft programme British Aerospace specified what G E C had to do and er a a this time , if you like , Deutsch Aerospace has taken on the equivalent role that B A E had for the experimental aircraft programme and er Deutsch Aerospace are not without experience in flight controls they have .
4 Although far and few , the Pitcairn islanders are not without supporters .
5 The report points out that quantifying risks is not without its uses : it teaches you a great deal about the way that the engineering systems you 're analysing behave .
6 The future is not without hope , however , and developments such as the introduction of part-time courses leading to professional qualifications , a relatively neglected area of art education , may offer some promise of success .
7 The fact that the USSR produces two to three times as many machine tools as the United States is not without significance .
8 At this point it must be said that the CA methodology is not without its critics .
9 ( However , the episode was not without profit , since the film company had paid very substantial compensation for his ‘ accident ’ . )
10 The result was not without promise , but distant memory suggests that the piece was as artificial as the clothes , a minor and mildly amusing exercise in an old-fashioned style .
11 Elena Ceauşescu was not without her own ambitions and may well have agreed to the ( temporary ) sidelining of Nicu after he made some mild protests about the state of the food supply in Sibiu .
12 But me thought of sharing his Minto-life with Warnie was not without its complications for Jack himself .
13 It seemed the future was not without promise , and a European base was set up with the amiable Andrew Ferguson as team-manager .
14 Producing McDuck 's car was n't without its headaches .
15 The early development of GEAR was not without its problems .
16 But other areas are not without their temporal aspects : even philosophy has its intellectual fashions . )
17 The elaborate rituals surrounding the preparation of the icon are not without purpose or effect .
18 Other schemes of American origin are not without their advocates on this side of the Atlantic .
19 Buying from a private individual or dealer can be extremely beneficial , but unless you have a knowledge of the subject , or both know and trust the person involved , such transactions are not without risk .
20 But their lives were not without hazards .
21 The question of whether Fahreddin Acemi was teaching at the Darulhadis is not without importance , since if Mecdi 's statement is correct , it would provide evidence of a certain continuity in one of the distinctive functions of the later Muftilik , from the time of Ali Cemali on , namely that the Mufti taught in an important imperial medrese ( in the case of Ali Cemali and his successors , that of Bayezid II in Istanbul ) : it ought , of course , to be recalled In this connection that Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan may well , while Mufti , have been teaching at the Manastir ( Sultan Orhan ) medrese in Bursa .
22 Yet his work is not without redeeming features .
23 Such work is not without its dangers and the Committee is currently making enquiries about an insurance policy .
24 If the portrayal of the Sadducees in the Gospels is not without some historical justification , the portrayal of the Pharisees is often viciously distorted .
25 But Casaubon is not without insight in his idea that the committed experimental philosopher may come to think that all areas of human concern and experience are legitimate grist to his mill .
26 The use of such checklists is not without problems .
27 Operative management is not without risk , however , as it has a reported 5–12% death rate .
28 The Chancellor is not without fault .
29 The church ran primary education , and even among the intellectuals Orthodoxy was not without vigour : the early twentieth century brought remarkable conversions to Christianity among Russian Marxists .
30 In the following months , Lepine was not without his grim and unsavoury disciples : sympathetic voices on radio talk shows ; graffiti artists , taunters of women and guntoters ; and a freed multiple murderer who , upon hearing of Lepine , ‘ wrote all the women I knew , telling them they were safe from me ’ .
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