Example sentences of "[noun] [be] without [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a change , the cobbler 's shoes are without holes ! |
| 2 | It was one of the hottest days of the year and the new part of the cemetery was without trees . |
| 3 | But the Government was concerned about the amount of unemployment in the valleys where both coal miners and steel workers were without jobs . |
| 4 | According to official figures , more than 20% of the population is without jobs , with the number of Panamanian poor rising from 33% before the US embargo and invasion to 50% of the population afterwards . |
| 5 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 6 | ‘ No woman is without faults . |
| 7 | Iraq is only shown to be Saddam and the desert ; the people of Iraq are without faces and voices . |
| 8 | What would your life be without dogs , eh ? |
| 9 | By November 1912 only fifty-one constituencies in Great Britain were without candidates , a much better position than the position at dissolution in either 1909 or 1910 ; few of these fifty-one constituencies were winnable , but in any case most of them had candidates by the end of 1913 . |
| 10 | And he went on : ‘ The wit was without barbs , the humour without sting and even worse , often without point . ’ |
| 11 | The church was without flowers because of Lent . |
| 12 | Almost no houses were without televisions and fridges . |
| 13 | The pits are without privies and the excrement of the workmen lies about everywhere so that the hands are liable to be soiled by it . |
| 14 | Where would the world be without bacteria ? |
| 15 | Since other marriages were without children she presumed that other couples , in their millions , shared their own difficulty . |
| 16 | They either indicate where the grave is without strings attached , or it becomes a shoddy exercise which should be refused . |
| 17 | They are ( even more trendily ) mildly disadvantaged : the Cosby family are black , Kate and Allie are without husbands , Roseanne is neither rich nor thin . |