Example sentences of "[been] [adj] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | No visit to Holland would have been complete without a study of the important Dutch bulb industry and soon after his return Miller produced a paper , read at the Royal Society , on the practice of growing them in water . |
| 2 | Films like Ken Russell 's The Devils ( 1971 ) , with its hysteria and erotic frenzies , or Nic Roeg 's Do n't Look Now ( 1973 ) would not have been possible without the developments in Gothic instigated at Hammer 's Bray Studios ( although Roeg had also worked , as a cameraman , on Roger Corman 's The Masque of the Red Death ( 1964 ) ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , their first trip to Scotland since 1981 would not have been possible without the assistance of four British-based companies trading in Eastern Europe who at the eleventh hour put up a total of £10,000 . |
| 4 | Mr Bond 's business rise would not have been possible without the return of laissez-faire ; the emergence of deregulation ; the ascent of the mega-merger and the credit boom centred on the Anglo economies of Australia , the United States and Britain . |
| 5 | This growth in what the tourism business winsomely calls the ‘ silver generation ’ would not have been possible without big changes in boots and bindings . |
| 6 | Notts ' team manager , John Birch , said : ‘ It is something we have been working towards but which would not have been possible without Swithland 's backing . ’ |
| 7 | This book would hardly have been possible without the help of the long memories of two gentlemen who were children at Foxton during the time of the Lift . |
| 8 | It did not appear appropriate , therefore , to develop one global user requirement for the two departments as implied by the FAOR proposals , and , in any event , this would not have been possible without extensive reorganisation of the filing and reference systems as a whole . |
| 9 | Author 's Note : — The compilation of earlier chapters of this book could not have been possible without Abraham Farrar 's researches to point the way . |
| 10 | She is quick to point out that this would not have been possible without the help of all the artistes and musicians on the various shows . |
| 11 | He claims that major fiascos such as BCCI , Barlow Clowes and the Maxwell pension fraud would not have been possible without the connivance of offshore centres . |
| 12 | ‘ This is a great occasion , and it would never have been possible without your help . |
| 13 | None of this would have been possible without the development of a woven artificial grass . |
| 14 | This transformation would not have been possible without the framework established by the government to concentrate high technology medicine and medical education in the public hospitals . |
| 15 | It would not , however , have been possible without the support of McKenna and the Ministers who succeeded him . |
| 16 | No matter how skilled the executives , these shifts in the production structure would not have been possible without complementary adjustments in the way firms can organise their financial affairs . |
| 17 | But none of it would have been possible without Cecil 's political influence and contacts , as well as his official revenue . |
| 18 | The massive transportation of goods by air would not have been possible without a faster method of documenting shipments . |
| 19 | The acquisition would not have been possible without the help of the National Heritage Museum Fund and discussions are continuing with the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland regarding a grant towards endowment costs . |
| 20 | It would not have been possible without the cooperation of hard-pressed national park staff , BP Bitor , Govan Davies Estates , Mel Davies of Amroth , Mr Fairbrother of Lamphey , Friends of the Earth Cymru , and last but not least , the wonderfully good humoured Robin and Ann Crump and all their colleagues at Orielton . |
| 21 | Does he agree that his announcement today would not have been possible without the privatisation of the electricity supply industry , and could not have been made by a Government in hock to the National Union of Mineworkers ? |
| 22 | tournament administrator , said : ‘ The tournament really would n't have been possible without this sponsorship . |
| 23 | It would not have been possible without this generous sponsorship by British Gas and we are very grateful to them , ’ said Dick Pringle of Hartcliffe Leisure Ltd . |
| 24 | The visit would not have been possible without their tremendous enthusiasm for our invitation , and we particularly thank John Neumeier for his determination to bring over one of his finest works . |
| 25 | A number of Cabinet colleagues had doubts about all these policies and many would acknowledge that things would have been different without her . |
| 26 | But my life 's been empty without him , without that uncompromising presence . |
| 27 | Ever since her birth he had been ultra-anxious without expressing , even to himself alone , his reasons for this . |
| 28 | It had not been easy without existing contacts in the region , and their reports would have to be treated with caution for a while , but on the whole he felt he had achieved as much as could have been expected . |
| 29 | It would have been impossible without you ! |
| 30 | Driving the cattle that was to feed the troops through the Alps was a Herculean task and it would have been impossible without the dogs . |