Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] without [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He urged that the tax should be collected without undue violence ( 'moderately' ) . |
| 2 | The popes accepted that no bishops should be appointed without royal permission . |
| 3 | The Guidance states : no decision to initiate proceedings should be taken without clear evidence that provision of services for the child and his family ( which may include an accommodation placement voluntarily arranged under s20 ) has failed or would be likely to fail to meet the child 's needs adequately and that there is no suitable person prepared to apply to take over care of the child under a residence order ( para 3.10 ) . |
| 4 | It also concluded that : — There seems little likelihood that scientific experiments will be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of primary prevention in the population as a whole , and thus decisions on preventive policy must be reached without prior experimental tests . ’ |
| 5 | So , moving on to another requirement of this law , which states that ‘ When a penalty kick is taken the following shall apply : ( a ) The kick must be taken without undue delay ; ( b ) the kick must be taken at or behind the mark on a line through the mark ; ( c ) The kicker may kick the ball in any direction and he may play the ball again , without any restriction except if he has indicated to the referee that he intends to attempt a kick for goal ’ . |
| 6 | On Feb. 25 , 1990 , as part of a programme to introduce full convertibility of the lira , the upper limit on capital outflows which could be made without ministerial agreement was raised to $50,000,000 . |
| 7 | The committee agreed that a single system was desirable , and suggested ways in which it could be implemented without excessive financial or administrative difficulty . |
| 8 | Managing director Tim Hely Hutchinson said that the profitability of the publishing business , together with the contribution from Bookpoint , was now such that its organic growth plans could be funded without significant net cash usage . |
| 9 | Nothing could be done without noble acquiescence . |
| 10 | These patients were undergoing cardiac , bone , or cerebral isotope scanning and dynamic liver scintigraphy could be incorporated without unnecessary additional exposure to radionuclides . |
| 11 | However , that agenda did have the advantage that it could be developed on an evolutionary basis , and that further innovations could be incorporated without major upheaval . |
| 12 | Thus they treated innovation with extreme caution , and employed advanced technology only when they had satisfied themselves that it could be incorporated without visible effect into their style of living . |
| 13 | It would also mean that any changes to the system at this stage could be rectified without high costs being incurred . |
| 14 | Mr Bangemann explicitly appealed to other European leaders not to suggest that German reunification was an immediate political issue or one which could be decided without dramatic changes in the political and security situation in Europe as a whole . |
| 15 | The Council maintained that the investment problems could be overcome without major organisational change . |
| 16 | It is doubtful whether such an explanation of naturally occurring polymorphism could be tested without long-term , detailed recording , not only of the variety of genetic changes occurring within clover populations , but at the same time of a detailed recording of the known hazards in the life of the clover plant over the seasons and the years . |
| 17 | The fortress and city could be ceded without great military significance , but the blow to the national spirit of France would be calamitous . |
| 18 | The traffic impact of any development could be accommodated without serious detriment to the surrounding area , but although the above constraints are not seen as insurmountable , they may well act as a deterrent to development . |
| 19 | The committee suggests that its recommendations could be accomplished without additional spending — a novelty in science 's advice to government . |
| 20 | No doubt Lenin was mistaken in assuming that administrative functions ( control and accounting ) were so simple and routine that they could be accomplished without special professional training and experience . |
| 21 | Whereas in the past the boards would say that advanced calculators could be used without additional calculating programmes or memory banks , such programmes and data banks are incorporated in the latest generation of machines as a matter of course . |
| 22 | The assumption of the Government in the 1980s was that the trend towards earlier retirement could be managed without new legislation to protect older workers from discrimination in the workplace . |
| 23 | Many traumatic events may be overcome without lasting damage if , for instance , the child has a continuous , warm , secure relationship with one parent or parent-substitute . |
| 24 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 25 | Its particular advantage to the marketer is that it may be used without extensive training in mathematics or computer programming , since programming is done by the package itself when in operation . |
| 26 | It is thus unlikely that the road would be constructed without substantial assistance from the Department of Transport . |
| 27 | According to Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , the Minister of the Presidency who announced the increases , regular currency devaluations would cease henceforth and no more money would be printed without firm backing . |
| 28 | There is a long tradition among revolutionary thinkers and activists that communist society would be administered without bureaucratic relationships between political leaders and the people — without , that is , an apparatus which represented the particular interests of a dominant class and which was divorced from those engaged in production ( Hegedus 1976 , p. 17 ) . |
| 29 | No large-scale drilling would be allowed without on-site inspections ; any large commercial explosions would have to be notified and inspected ; a highly sensitive seismic and radiation-detector network would pick up seismic activity all over the world ( useful for earthquake prediction too ) and satellites would keep a close check on suspect areas . |
| 30 | None of these will be documented without prior consent . |