Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [pron] without [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no doubt that his mother was in her bedroom and that if she heard him she would come into his room and it would start , he knew it would : the upbraiding of Martin , and he would n't be able to stand it without checking her . |
| 2 | 'You tell me this in order to comfort me and make me able to betray you without rending my own heart . |
| 3 | What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good . |
| 4 | But the fact that he 's a born racer , I mean I know him quite well , I 've seen him around a lot , I would talk to him a lot , so would other colleagues here , every race since that decision , I think without trying , he persuaded himself , we were able to persuade him without trying too hard that maybe he should reconsider ; I think time did the rest . |
| 5 | Trow ( 1974 , p. 6.3 ) has distinguished between elite and mass systems of higher education and argues that ‘ Countries that develop a system of elite higher education in modern times seem able to expand it without changing its character in fundamental ways until it is providing places for about 15% of the age grade . ’ |
| 6 | Once you add water and gravel you wo n't be able to move it without emptying it again . |