Example sentences of "to be without [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The rumours which upset markets yesterday of a renewed difference of opinion between the Downing Street neighbours appear this time to be without substance .
2 For example Bar-Yosef and Kolodny , and Litzenberger and Ramaswamy have found dividends to be significant while Black and Scholes have found them to be without significance .
3 It worries me because these exemptions as to there for example er where thirty nine square metres of roof was permitted to be without support of any kind .
4 IN the midst of a defeat from the world champions , Andy Roxburgh may have found the vindication he was looking for in an exercise that was thought to be without relevance for Scotland .
5 To be without memory and to be an actor is inconceivable .
6 We consider this comment to be without foundation and should point out that as a condition of the land being used as a permanent site for our mobile home , we have had to plant over 100 conifers , together with shrubs and rose bushes .
7 Based on official sources , the whole story was later acknowledged by both Saudi and US military officials to be without foundation .
8 Aubdubon 's scepticism about Gould 's ability to meet the strenuous physical demands of life in the bush proved to be without foundation .
9 Among the others , Kabardino-Balkar was reported on Aug. 31 to be without government after the resignation of its president and dissolution of the Supreme Soviet .
10 As fighting intensified , the capital was said to be without water or electricity supplies , with food supplies running short and bodies lying unburied in the streets ; heavy civilian casualties were reported .
11 Most Iraqi cities are reported to be without electricity or telephones .
12 Almost half the country was reported to be without electricity on April 29 and on May 4-5 following FMLN sabotage , and FMLN sources reported a renewed army offensive on May 15 .
13 A dose of 5 mg/kg indomethacin has , however , been reported to be without influence on pancreatic arterial blood flow .
14 She mentions that once , having just given birth to a child , she was ordered by Christ to get up and go to Norwich , though her journey appeared to be without purpose .
15 But they are set to be without injury victims Robert Lee and Carl Leaburn for Tuesday 's game against Tranmere at Upton Park .
16 It was found to be without effect .
17 But Rosie would n't be alone — she came here every year to run the chemist 's shop her father owned , and was n't likely to be without companionship for the evening .
18 I decided then and there that it was a good thing to be without wax .
19 ‘ Where you going to be without Grade 12 ?
20 I have never descended a pothole , and have ventured with a flashlight only in the caves promised by caving journals to be without danger .
21 As long as one remains within a biblical and Christian tradition , the problem may be thought to be without solution .
22 If that was correct , there could be no question of any infringement of articles 7 and 221 , which were expressed to be without prejudice to the other provisions of the E.E.C .
23 To be without emotion is to be unfeeling , to have no contact with the human condition .
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