Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [be] [vb pp] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the politics of the last thirty years of the century can not properly be understood without reference to the wealth and ambition of the members of the king 's own family . |
| 2 | This book concentrates on legal control by the courts , but the role and significance of judicial control can not properly be understood without examining its relationship to alternative methods of control ; and so , in Part V , certain non-judicial controls will also be considered . |
| 3 | Words can not only be recognised without attending to them , but they can also , with practice , be read aloud and whole sentences , and even passages , can be read with intonation . |
| 4 | Thus , the Scottish Law Commission in para 5:23 of their Memorandum 25 , observed that s62(4) : … is of importance since the introduction of the rule that property in sale might pass without delivery would otherwise have been possible by resort to transactions in the form of sale to circumvent the rule that a security over moveables may not generally be constituted without transfer to them . |
| 5 | Another problem arose in 1916 , which can not easily be explained without reference to the proposed ‘ Home Rule ’ in Ireland that had developed under the government of Asquith which introduced the Home Rule Act 1914 . |
| 6 | A power of sale under a general lien should not normally be exercised without recourse to legal advice . |
| 7 | Cells can not normally be seen without a microscope , being about one-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter . |
| 8 | Accounting theory can not realistically be discussed without considering the context of accounting policy-making . |
| 9 | The summary follows its original uniformly , section by section , except in the following ways : ( i ) Nietzsche frequently alludes , without explaining the allusions , to more or less well-known features of Greek tragedy or the Greek world ; he gives virtually no dates for artists , thinkers , or events , ancient or modern ; and he sometimes makes points that rest , clearly enough , on unstated presuppositions , but points that can not readily be summarized without reconstructing each presupposition and making it fully explicit . |
| 10 | The court adjudged that , having requested access to a lawyer , a suspect could not then be questioned without the presence of a lawyer , even if he or she had already conferred with the lawyer . |
| 11 | By defining sites of special scientific ( mostly ecological and geological ) interest , and setting upper limits to catches of seals , fish and krill , between them these measures ensure that the Antarctic area will not be despoiled casually , and that its biological resources will not again be exploited without some reference to their capacity for sustained yield . |
| 12 | These gains can not however be acquired without changing the distribution of income . |
| 13 | This hatred of Lloyd George on the part of both Baldwin and MacDonald made it very difficult for the Conservative or Labour Parties to contemplate either coalition with the Liberals , or even a tacit understanding with them to sustain a minority government ; and the politics of the 1920s can not therefore be understood without appreciating the widespread antagonism both to coalition and to Lloyd George personally . |