Example sentences of "place without [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It seems that such a re-investigation may take place without negative implications .
2 Section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 makes it an offence to possess a bladed or sharply pointed article in a public place without good reason .
3 Changes in storage practice , materials and containers sometimes take place without due regard for their effect on protective systems and the possibility of other forms of improvisation can never be eliminated .
4 This semi-colonial expansion took place without great enthusiasm in St Petersburg .
5 How could they have come into existence in the first place without malicious midwives ?
6 In this sense the world would be a better place without mental retardation , madness , and senile dementia .
7 It required from the pianist an unbelievable independence of hands and fingers , so that unevenly spread accents and criss-crossing figurations appeared to drop into place without obvious effort .
8 But now Chambers insisted that the extensions to growth took place without supernatural interference , so that one species naturally transmuted itself into a higher one at a certain point in time .
9 The influence takes place without direct contact with the virus — ‘ action at a distance ’ is the applicable term .
10 The advance towards the EEC had , of course , taken place without British participation , since Britain could not accept the fundamental supranational principle .
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