Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] without [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A currency union can not exist without perfect capital mobility across the union and a fully integrated financial sector .
2 The high level of research interest and activity to be found in the Faculty could not exist without excellent research facilities .
3 Scott could not succeed without outside finance , and soon this was supplied by David Astor , then editor of the London Observer , who put up half the money for a new venture , the Central African Mail , which began publishing in 1960 .
4 Some , including Kent County Council , believe that large scale induced development will not occur without positive government intervention and that some towns such as Dover could be badly affected by the loss of their traditional ferry business .
5 In the face of unprecedented levels of unemployment , the unemployed themselves were pressing demands on the West Ham Board of Guardians for adequate levels of relief — demands that the guardians could not meet without heavy borrowing from the government .
6 Every evening he listens to one of the masters — Schubert , Schumann , Beethoven , Brahms — a habit which he can not miss without physical anguish .
7 While the state could not develop without female labour ( at one time , as a result of Stalin 's purges and World War II , there were 40% more women than men in the working population ) , equally , it could not afford to replace the role of the wife and mother in the home .
8 New weapons programmes can not proceed without Congressional authorization .
9 The author reveals that this almighty blunder was down to Quisling who had told German intelligence that the battery would not fire without direct cabinet orders .
10 Goodness and integrity such as his will not pass without widespread grief .
11 Of course , it could not come without national repentance and renewal on a grand scale .
12 Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise .
13 Advanced technology can not operate without special glass .
14 ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) .
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