Example sentences of "[vb past] that without " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was undoubtedly a big market , as many car firms found that without small robots they could not complete the automation of their paint spraying lines . |
| 2 | Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals . |
| 3 | He agreed that without a friendly settlement of the candidate question and a unified opposition campaign , the Janata Dal could not hope to win . |
| 4 | We agreed that without our set we felt as out of touch as two visitors from outer space . |
| 5 | While it appears that both James and Williams agreed that without an ascendant industrial bourgeoisie , the abolitionists ‘ would have preached themselves as black in the face as any Negro ’ . |
| 6 | They always want to follow legal procedures up to a point , when even they realised that without some kind of help from other unions they were not going to win this strike . |
| 7 | He realised that without western investment there was little chance of turning the economy around . |
| 8 | It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements . |
| 9 | Marxist theoreticians argued that without a confident class to support it liberalism failed to complete the bourgeois revolution against feudalism ; thus they sought tactical models in Tsarist Russia that represented a stage of development comparable to that of modern Spain . |
| 10 | These scares helped to strengthen the case of those who argued that without nuclear weapons Britain had no hope of exerting sufficient influence in Washington . |
| 11 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 12 | We placed in that magnificent chest a magnificently broken heart ; we imagined that without Madame 's support and proximity he would break down , order whisky all night , then howl out some great and vivid grief before collapsing on the floor of the Bar before our very eyes . |
| 13 | Finally , while Chomsky assumed that without a priori knowledge , a distributional analysis of a naturally occurring language sample would inevitably fail to identify correspondences between words and their respective lexical roles , more recent studies have suggested that this view may have been unduly pessimistic ( Maratsos 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Speaking at the World Conservation Union meeting in Perth , Australia , the organisation claimed that without protection , 5,000 of the remaining 50,000 orang-utans will continue to be lost each year . |
| 15 | Mackworth ( 1950 ) , within his classical studies of vigilance , showed that without knowledge of results the proportion of detected signals decreased in succeeding half-hours compared with the first half-hour , but for subjects given knowledge of results there was no deterioration compared with the first half-hour through the full two hours of the study . |
| 16 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |
| 17 | Writing about the future development of education following abolition of the Schools Council , which had had curriculum development and examination monitoring functions and which had managed to stem temporarily the growth of DES curricular involvement , Plaskow commented that without the achievement of consensus within a workable framework , there would be central direction , with ‘ prescription through authority ’ . |
| 18 | Lord Cherwell commented that without nuclear weapons Britain would be just another European state . |
| 19 | He replied that without total control he did n't have a job . |
| 20 | Even when they did , it tended to be in flippant terms ; for example , one student remarked that without physics ‘ we 'd be in a right mess for a start ’ ; another that ‘ we 'd still be in the caves ’ . |
| 21 | At Lausanne , the Ramallah Congress delegation discovered that without a representative government the refugee community had no standing , except as the subject of the deliberations . |
| 22 | ‘ I came back because I discovered that without him my head splits into a thousand pieces . |
| 23 | They cited the Joint Declaration 's promise of ‘ a legislature constituted by elections ’ , and warned that without democracy , the autocratic machinery of colonial government might prove far less benign in China 's hands . |
| 24 | In its 1990 annual report to foreign-aid donor countries , the World Bank castigated the government for a " particularly poor " budgetary performance and warned that without economic growth at a sustained 5 per cent , the prospects of alleviating the country 's severe poverty were dim . |
| 25 | It warned that without the adoption of " Keynesian economic policies " , the " debt deflation " afflicting the world 's leading economies could ensure another " lost decade " . |
| 26 | A CPRE spokesman warned that without proper funding and planning policies , " landowners and local authorities will be tempted to do " deals " — planting trees only where planning permission for otherwise unacceptable development is also granted . " |
| 27 | The council 's chief executive , Alan White , warned that without the catalyst of Safer City funding it was unlikely that organisations involved in the partnership would be willing to continue their efforts on the crime fighting front . |
| 28 | They covered that without difficulty before dark , their only delay a meeting-up with their late fellow-invaders , the Armstrongs , whom they came across at the Kershopefoot crossing of Liddel Water , driving an even larger drove of cattle from Gilsland than the main body had collected , and taking a more northerly course home . |
| 29 | The regular aircrew treated us quite well as a rule but there were one or two time serving Air Gunners who seemed to be jealous of our youth and high spirits , and the majority of the skippers were real gents who appreciated that without the National Service contingent the Washingtons could not be crewed correctly . |
| 30 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |