Example sentences of "[noun pl] could be [vb pp] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very substantial endowments most princes had accumulated in the ninth and tenth centuries could be curtailed without disaster in the favourable economic climate of the eleventh century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus ready-formed vitamins and proteins could be absorbed without them having to be laboriously manufactured from gases , other minerals , or light energy . |
| 4 | The survey of tax practitioners who are members of the institute , part of a research project at Bristol University , found that NIC compliance costs were unnecessarily high and considerable savings could be made without a fundamental change in Government policy . |
| 5 | Mr Chairman , if decent people find it necessary er to kill animals they believe be vermin they do n't dress up in red coats and call them pink and er charge er , er , er , about er drinking st stirrup cups and tooting horns , er they go out and kill the vermin , it 's a necessary job that has to be done and of course , er there are many ways in which foxes could be killed without cruelty if it is necessary to kill them . |
| 6 | Yes , where , sorry , Ian Smith , Ryedale District , yes , er where it was considered those allocated sites could be developed without extending development into the greenbelt . |
| 7 | The Secretaries of State could take powers under the Act to widen the circumstances under which such restrictions and revocations could be made without compensation , but they are extremely reluctant to face the wrath of the industry , for obvious reasons . |
| 8 | Indeed , it even handed over several copies of its official stamp to Agrokomerc , so that the notes could be endorsed without the bother of sending them to the bank . |
| 9 | If this were so , the existence of ideologies could be explained without resorting to an ‘ anthropological dimension ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Variety found that it ‘ fails to engage any sympathy or interest : entire reels could be interchanged without it being evident ’ . |
| 12 | It also stipulated that no subsequent change to the borrowing rules could be made without the approval of at least 85 per cent of the shareholders . |
| 13 | The days when fine buildings could be demolished without anyone knowing or objecting are largely over . |
| 14 | To highlight the problem , and to try to explore solutions , SAVE published a report , A Future for Farm Buildings , which illustrated the many uses to which farm buildings could be put without compromising their character or integrity . |
| 15 | The cost of the entire operation was competitive with glass bottles and , moreover , the package and contents could be dropped without damage or loss and therefore should have been an attractive proposition to supermarkets and bottling plants alike . |
| 16 | The Council maintained that the investment problems could be overcome without major organisational change . |
| 17 | The confidence which marked the early years of the reign that major liberal reforms could be introduced without endangering the social and political order was severely shaken . |
| 18 | erm but these things could be done without going to committees , without any problem whatsoever if we just have this experiment to see how it works . |
| 19 | There is no necessary relationship between these schemata and the actual details of a song ; the details could be substituted without affecting the essential meaning , while conversely the overall structure does not depend on the details . |
| 20 | The data revealed that human impact was greatest with initial use ; further increases in use levels exhibited a non-linear relationship , illustrating that once a campsite had been established , higher-use levels could be sustained without incurring disproportionate damage . |
| 21 | In support of Mansfield , A E Killip challenged the Alliance to demonstrate how rates could be reduced without disadvantage to the community . |
| 22 | Farms could be accumulated without being enclosed , and individual yeomen could , by exchanging strips in the open fields with their neighbours , consolidate their holdings and thereby create a unit which was easier to work . |
| 23 | Independence of domestic policies Under the adjustable peg system , deficit countries had to direct fiscal and monetary policies at the external situation since expenditure-reducing was the only way in which the balance of payments could be improved without devaluation . |
| 24 | AIRLINES could save millions , motorway signs could be more efficiently lit and bags could be sealed without the need for adhesive thanks to new technology to put microscopic grooves and markings on a surface . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Under the new system ( laid down in sections 26–32 of the ERA 1988 ) schools would be able to admit pupils until they were physically full — a stage reached when no additional pupils could be accommodated without the school being in breach of the law governing the use of school premises ( see below ) . |
| 27 | A pair of researchers arrived at the extraordinary conclusion that fusion of deuterons could be achieved without the application of massive external energy , which had previously been thought to be an indispensable condition . |
| 28 | The example of the a-ray microscope shows that it is far from clear how these two worlds could be juxtaposed without subverting and contradicting the very quantum theory they were invented to explain . |
| 29 | This meant that there was a limit beyond which wages could be reduced without harming the industrial process or generating such misery that the workers would rebel against the system . |
| 30 | In Masailand such thoughts could be entertained without abandoning the imperial obligation to attempt improvement ; there DO-hood was constantly being born anew , the same irresistible force meeting the same immovable object . |