Example sentences of "without any [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of branches were still in existence , though without any co-ordinating machinery . |
| 2 | At present , however , language is characteristically taught without any systematic link with culture ; and cultural learning through language is replaced by simplified social studies approaches to factual descriptions of the country and people in question . |
| 3 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 4 | It begins to look as if the graptoloids could have been free-floating animals , of a kind without any living counterpart . |
| 5 | ‘ This is for people who are put out of their natural home without any living skills . |
| 6 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |
| 7 | Although one of golf 's Great Triumvirate , along with Harry Vardon and J. H. Taylor — which dominated golf for 20 years up to the outbreak of the First World War — James Braid had an outstanding parallel career in golf architecture , although without any professional training . |
| 8 | If the company you have hired can not obtain materials from a builder 's merchant without any advance payment there is something wrong . |
| 9 | in my view thrown off without any reasonable excuse , because I felt that I could bring a lot of expertise to the health authority . |
| 10 | At this holy place , without any warning , without any cool calculation on his part , he was given a far richer blessing by God himself . |
| 11 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 12 | They could , in short , be accommodated , without any undue friction . |
| 13 | In selecting a new class of options the clearing house attempts to ensure that at all times contracts may be exercised without any undue influence on the share market itself . |
| 14 | In the instant case the words of section 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 that fall to be construed , ‘ provision in relation to … retirement ’ , without any undue straining of the ordinary meaning of the language used , are capable of bearing either the narrow meaning accepted by the Employment Appeal Tribunal or the wider meaning preferred by the Court of Appeal but acknowledged by that court to be largely a matter of first impression . |
| 15 | Members need have no worry about the continuity of Motor Insurance after they retire as Autocover insures members without any upper age limit . |
| 16 | Proximal and distal ends may include up to half the length of the shaft without any separate count being made for the shaft . |
| 17 | However , when the 181 patients in practices without any diabetic protocol were compared with the others no significant difference was shown . |
| 18 | Complementary colours are generally blended with the basic pinks in a subtle and sensitive way , without any strong contrasts . |
| 19 | In fact , a great many of the most important decisions by British Governments have been introduced without any prior leave by the electorate as has been the case with respect to the repeal of the Corn Laws , 1846 , the passing of the Trades Disputes Act , 1927 , the departure from the Gold Standard in 1931 , the decision by the post-war Labour Government to opt for a nuclear-defence policy , the decision to apply for membership of the European Economic Community in 1961 , the passage of the Commonwealth Immigration Act , 1968 , as well as a host of foreign-policy matters over the years . |
| 20 | The empiricists believe that language should be learnable by experience , without any prior knowledge . |
| 21 | What is impressive is that these distinctions can be made without any prior knowledge of the syntactic and semantic categories of the words involved . |
| 22 | For the time being , we have to assume that it 's a single line kite you want ( multi-line stunters come in Chapter Eight ) and , without any prior experience , you have n't a clue where to begin . |
| 23 | Newborn chicks will peck at an adult gull 's bill — or even a model of one — without any prior experience . |
| 24 | And on 23 January , the Reich Press Chief , Dietrich , gave instructions to the press which spoke suddenly , and without any prior warning to the public , of ‘ the great and stirring heroic sacrifice which the troops encircled at Stalingrad are offering the German nation ’ . |
| 25 | As holiday areas increase in popularity , building work or enhancements to the infrastructure are a not unexpected feature , and often start without any prior warning to tour operators . |
| 26 | On 27 March 1990 Mrs Kemp , herself a former social worker , was suspended without any prior warning by Ron Gilbert , Chief Executive of Orkney Islands Council . |
| 27 | The Japanese attack , by two divisions directed at Imphal and Kohima , was a supreme effort to break through into India and came without any prior intelligence from any quarter . |
| 28 | Secondly , technical innovation may occur directly in the factory or workshop without any prior research expenditure and possibly as pure serendipity . |
| 29 | In the absence of controls over referrals by non-budget holding GPs , the provision that under such contracts ‘ payment would be on a case by case basis , without any prior commitment by either party to the volume of cases which might be so dealt with ’ , would appear very similar to a prospective payment system . |
| 30 | The White Paper working paper on funding and contracts for hospital services envisages three broad classes of contract ; block contracts , under which the GP or DHA would pay the hospital an annual fee in return for access to a defined range of services ; cost and volume contracts , under which hospitals would receive a sum in respect of a baseline level of activity , defined in terms of a given number of treatments or cases , and cost per case contracts , where payment would be made to the hospital on a case by case basis , without any prior commitment of either party to the volume of cases which might be so dealt with . |