Example sentences of "be [adj] without [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or put another way , the economic growth objectives are planned so as to be practicable without recourse to that part of oil and gas production which has been designated a foreign currency earner . |
| 2 | This introduction would not be complete without reference to the semantic and linguistic engineering of the term case management into care management in the UK DoH reforms . |
| 3 | Memories of boyhood days would not be complete without mention of some of the boys with whom we played , boys we grew up with , and who to this day remain our good friends — the life-long friends of Jerry and me . |
| 4 | No book relating to matrimonial home conveyancing would be complete without mention of the Class F Land Charge , or its registered land equivalent . |
| 5 | Christmas would not be complete without holly , but before growing your own , take John Kelly 's advice to ensure you choose the right sex ! |
| 6 | No account of the work of AIB would be complete without recognition of the enormous contribution made by the pathologists of the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation pathology . |
| 7 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 8 | Where a loan or advance is made to a participator in a close company , the tax charged will be due without assessment 14 days after the end of the accounting period . |
| 9 | In a simple case of the sale of registered land ( such as transfer of whole ) it 's common now to assume that your draft will be acceptable without alteration , and therefore to type the top copy on an engrossment print , and to invite the buyer to use this as the engrossment . |
| 10 | Such a sentence as ‘ He feels sad ’ would be unintelligible without assimilation to my own feelings ; and although ‘ He is sad ’ is interpretable as a dispositional statement about behaviour , in the manner worked out in Ryle 's Concept of mind , someone who did not know that it entails ‘ He feels sad ’ could not be said fully to understand it . |
| 11 | This raises the issue whether cross-cultural training can be effective without language training . |
| 12 | You were supposed to be brilliant without effort , or to accept your limitations and get a fourth-class degree . |
| 13 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 14 | How can you be healthy without meat ? |
| 15 | I found them ( almost universally ) to be gross without openness , and cunning without refinement . |
| 16 | For all these improvements in the formal mechanisms whereby the House seeks to keep government in check , any full account of procedures relating to this function would be incomplete without reference , again , to the importance of the Houses as forums of informal debates , discussions and plain horse-trading . |
| 17 | Dealing with the interest of one party in joint property would be incomplete without mention of the doctrine of severance . |
| 18 | For the energetic , whose holiday would be incomplete without time on the tennis courts , Italy has just the answer . |
| 19 | The same applies to the examples that I discuss in chapter 4 : some of these show gross differences between social groups on the basis of hundreds or even thousands of tokens , which would not be apparent without quantification . |
| 20 | There is no sense of the various nuances involved in the attributions , nor that some might be inconceivable without language . |
| 21 | I 'd like to emphasize that this idea that time and space should be finite without boundary is just a proposal : it can not be deduced from some other principle . |
| 22 | All these would be useless without record-keeping and , more than that , record-keeping of the intelligent sort that Nikos provided . |
| 23 | The appellant , who had been conscripted whilst in Englnd into the Netherlands armed forces , was alleged to be absent without leave . |
| 24 | It is important to bear in mind the wide range of inter-agency linkages that may be necessary without reference to the subject matter of those linkages . |