Example sentences of "without [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others again , such as physics , chemistry or history , have important professional associations or societies without being full-blown professions . |
| 2 | When one has an office , one should carry it out with courage and firmness ; without being depressed or crawling , one should not merely do what is possible , but should try , dare and risk making the office as beneficent as possible . |
| 3 | Favourable reviews came from Women 's Wear Daily , who considered it ‘ a funny , lovely , painfully gentle play that manages — without being fake-sensitive or psychedelically souped up — to understand just the thinking of today 's young people ’ . |
| 4 | And in the particular art of making programmes for preschool children , without being violent or patronising , we have some the finest producers anywhere . |
| 5 | ‘ After years of having gentlemen call us ‘ duck ’ and ‘ darling ’ , surely we can call one of them ‘ cuddly ’ without being offensive . ’ |
| 6 | Cleanliness is a mark of politeness : and it is universally agreed upon , that no one , unadorned with this virtue , can go into company without being offensive . |
| 7 | Nathaniel Houlton , a widower living in Bristol , itemized the details of his coffin in a will drafted on 26 May 1767 : ‘ First , It is my Will and Desire ( if it can be done without being Offensive ) to have my Body kept for the space of One Week at the Least after my Demise , before my Coffin ( which I direct shall have a Double or false Lid , as my late Wife 's had ) , be closed up ; … |
| 8 | loss of or damage to equipment contents or personal effects by burglary housebreaking or theft while the Caravan or private car by which it is being drawn is left unattended without being closed and locked |
| 9 | However , in county schools it must now be ‘ wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character ’ , reflecting ‘ the broad traditions of Christian belief without being distinctive of any particular Christian denomination ’ . |
| 10 | Workers indicated that they would like to be able to take their holidays without being obliged to find a replacement and so have to do double duty before or after their holiday . |
| 11 | In phonological work , however , it is usually possible to obtain the material needed for a substantial and illuminating analysis of variation without being obliged to resort to direct elicitation . |
| 12 | Plenty of objects are many-parted and heterogeneous in internal structure , without being complex in the sense in which I want to use the term . |
| 13 | Yet it is possible to have a real relationship without such consciousness , just as it is possible to talk about God without being spiritual . |
| 14 | Moore 's terminology is complicated by the fact that he allows the possibility of properties which are not natural , without being non-natural in the special sense in which value properties are . |
| 15 | without being disgusting or any |
| 16 | ‘ It means you can criticise under this without being personal . |
| 17 | Again without being boring , when I first joined the company telesales people made telephone calls and made appointments , and the outdoor went out and did it . |
| 18 | Fearsome that is , without being dangerous . |
| 19 | Kempe conducts a performance as vigorous and taut as one would expect from that still-lamented figure ; the recording is adequate , without being brilliant . |
| 20 | He never committed an army to the field without being sure that he could bring overwhelming force to bear and never fought a battle without being sure he could win it . |
| 21 | He never committed an army to the field without being sure that he could bring overwhelming force to bear and never fought a battle without being sure he could win it . |
| 22 | When in 1953 Wyndham Lewis suggested a further campaign to release Pound from confinement , Eliot at first advised against any precipitate step : a number of proposals were being considered — including a letter to President Eisenhower — but he was wary of doing anything from England without being sure that there was approval for such moves in America . |
| 23 | Such trial trenches are far more cost-effective than undertaking a full-scale excavation without being sure if archaeological features survive on a site . |
| 24 | Thompson 's dialogue is realistic without being dull , vivid without being implausible , and pathetic without being sentimental . |
| 25 | These producer 's lives are not easy though : not only is there a constant pressure on TV bosses to axe unprofitable baby programmes , but their lives are a constant struggle to be simple without being simple-minded , to give information without being dull , and to work in one of the most sophisticated media ever invented without losing that childlike sense of wonder . |
| 26 | The material is a 65% polyester 35% cotton mix called Finelight , which has a cool , silky feel without being delicate . |
| 27 | ‘ It would n't suit you , though ; you need something spectacular without being fussy . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Though , of course , he added , ‘ a thing may be original without being good . ’ |
| 29 | It is a serious systematic account written for the general reader , professional without being technical . |
| 30 | It feels like an all-news network should : instant , informed , urgent without being hysterical . |