Example sentences of "without [pron] [pron] could not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without them I could not have completed my course . |
| 2 | Richard Crossman , a Labour Member of Parliament , also noted the determination of the " liberal " establishment by the end of 1956 to rebuild relations with the United States " without whom we could not survive " , a conclusion with which he reluctantly concurred . |
| 3 | We can not be complacent , for progress marches on and inflation eats at our financing , but we can be proud of the Institution — and extend again our heartfelt thanks to the voluntary fund raisers and crews without whom it could not exist in any form . |
| 4 | Concluding his report to the Governors Mr Vernon returned to the people who make up the RNLI , and without whom it could not exist . |
| 5 | During my term of office I hope to introduce all of you to the ‘ Team ’ who are the driving force behind the Society — Friends without whom I could not manage ! |
| 6 | We remember the great names like Lyell or Darwin , and forget the supporting cast without which they could not have been stars : those in museums classifying their findings . |
| 7 | We tend to take our water for granted , a turn of the tap and we have all we need , but we should consider more this most important mineral , without which we could not exist , the dry summer of 1976 proving how much we owe to water companies and the men who operate them . |
| 8 | Assessing his father retrospectively with a mixture of filial compassion and uncompromising lucidity , Nizan remarked : My father depicted culture as power and wealth , as the one thing that he did not have and without which he could not become a bourgeois . |
| 9 | The following morning saw me back at the surgery in order to collect not only my screwdriver but also the death certificate , duly signed by two doctors ( yes , they had managed to find the mortuary ) , without which I could not obtain a Registration of Death certificate , without which Nigel could not be cremated . |
| 10 | Mallarmé 's line which Eliot quoted in 1926 , discussing ‘ l'halluciné ’ and ‘ un élément d'incantation ’ in poetry , ‘ Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu ’ , was reinforced by those anthropologists who found that the fundamental mentality of the tribesmen they studied ‘ no doubt … is transmitted socially by means of language and concepts without which it could not be exercised . |
| 11 | Like her French contemporaries Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun or Adelaide Labille-Guiard , Angelica Kauffman was caught up in the contradictory politics of class and gender through the elite patronage without which she could not work . |
| 12 | And when the congratulations and kisses had died down , she went on , ‘ Señorita Shelley , without you I could not dream of finding such a wonderful mistress . |
| 13 | Hardliners reckon that without him they could not withstand a reformist onslaught for long . |
| 14 | Without it we could not possibly deliver the high quality of service that we do . |
| 15 | He always needed that : without it he could not feel easy in himself . |
| 16 | But without it she could not pay for her coffee and salad . |