Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 2 | No self-respecting Victorian or Edwardian woman would have been without a nail buffer , usually made from chamois leather , to ensure that her fingertips were always gleaming . |
| 3 | This implies that the number of jobs associated with any given level of output in the economy will be smaller than it would have been without the technological advances . |
| 4 | Browse in the gift shop or enjoy refreshment in the restaurant , and you can reflect for a few moments on how different things might have been without the events of 1066 . |
| 5 | ‘ Think of where we would have been without nurses during the war . ’ |
| 6 | The Organisation would have been without a legally constituted Safety Committee and unable to perform its designated functions . |
| 7 | Indeed , one might even go so far as to say that , were it not for the ‘ discovery ’ of Siberia 's seemingly inexhaustible resources of ‘ soft gold ’ , that is , an abundance of fur-bearing mammals — in particular the highly-prized sable — the Muscovite government would have been without the economic foundation for the growth of its political power . |
| 8 | Again , a clearer indication of what the right sentence in the Crown Court would have been without the discount for the fact that the case was a reference would make the decision more useful . |
| 9 | The quarrel between Aldfrith and Wilfrid can not have been without its political dimension . |
| 10 | Witness the serried ranks of highly paid company chairmen who maintain , in the face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary , that the Eighties enriched us , that we are immeasurably better off as a result of the Thatcher experiment than we would have been without it . |
| 11 | They take their place in better shape than they themselves would have been without the privilege of working a 12 step programme . |
| 12 | By the Saints , he must have been without a woman for too long , he thought wryly . |
| 13 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 14 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 15 | In a way I suppoise it was quite fortunate as we would have been without speed and wallace , who have now got a longer recovery period — as have all the other cripples that we 're carrying . |
| 16 | Thanks to the presence of Scottish Hydro-Electric 's storage dams in the hills , the flow passing Perth on 18 January was in fact materially less than it would have been without them . |