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

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1 Even testing family members for the gene mutation may have serious and unforeseen consequences and should not be done without careful consideration and the fully informed consent of those being tested .
2 The other amendments in the group deal with the resale of the businesses themselves , which we suggest should not be done without the consent of employees in the undertakings .
3 ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights .
4 But this could not be done without noise , especially the last , and hearing it the defenders lit first torches and then large beacons along the walls and opened up with their guns .
5 Turkey argued that this could not be done without a decision of the Mixed Commission .
6 For a moment Louisa wondered whether this platitudinous sentiment might be turned to advantage , but it could not be done without contrivance ; and when she looked up she saw how the Rector 's face aspired to bravery .
7 He would have preferred holding her back but that could n't be done without her getting frightened that something bad had happened .
8 Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment .
9 The pastoral work of the church can not be done without adequate financial support and I am afraid the support we are getting at the moment is simply not enough for all we are doing . ’
10 Consequently , large-scale transposing of one set of legal rules from one jurisdiction to another can not be done without considering the implications of the relevant surrounding law .
11 This may become relevant if the parties wish to revoke or modify the right , for this can not be done without the third party 's assent , unless it was previously agreed otherwise .
12 To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin .
13 Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all .
14 Increasing loan redemption periods can not be done without incurring costs in the form of interest charges .
15 On the other hand , it is fairly obvious that " strong " stemming — the removal of longer and more " meaningful " suffixes such as " ization " " ism " and ability " often can not be done without drastically altering the sense of a search ( consider " organ " " organic " " organism " and " organization " ) .
16 However , before these aims can be achieved , we first of all have to recruit and this , as I said before , can not be done without literature required .
17 For example , if we wish to delete the information that Martin is studying B742 , it can not be done without deleting the information that Prof. Harris teaches the module B742 .
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