Example sentences of "not be without " in BNC.

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1 The resurrection has not been without pain , however .
2 The joint Harrier venture with the US Marine Corps has proved an outstanding exception , though it has not been without its problems .
3 The steady flow of investment and acquisitions , supported by an £88m rights issue 12 months ago , have not been without hiccups , however .
4 Of course AMV has not been without its critics .
5 However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems .
6 This has not been without considerable sacrifice and testing of faith .
7 We have fought long and hard for a certain amount of privacy in society , especially within the home , but this has not been without cost , and now we search for ways of re-establishing the collective level , as it is a part of women 's nature to do .
8 Fuchs 's career as a museum director has not been without controversy .
9 The anti-papal propaganda of the preceding twenty years had not been without effect , but more importantly there remained considerable anxiety about the new queen 's plans for the vast amount of ecclesiastical land which had been acquired by the laity .
10 Such developments , however , have not been without problems .
11 Her sudden , almost overnight , success had not been without its problems however .
12 Maybe , as William strongly suspected , this first communion between the rat and the marmot had not been without violence and rattus rattus , being the little fucker he was , had savagely copulated with the small , pretty , squirrel-like creature — and then torn her throat out .
13 His own childhood , though markedly less strenuous , less arduous than Liz 's , had not been without its privations , its humiliations .
14 The rapid increase in home ownership has not been without its problems .
15 Since reorganization , however , as we have seen , many of the new colleges of higher education have turned to the CNAA for validation , a process that has not been without its stresses and strains .
16 These initiatives , however , have not been without criticism .
17 As she changed the water in her washing-up bowl , the feeling of a pattern more securely possessed her , the feeling of events happening and being linked , the feeling that her wakeful nights and her edginess over her lost child had not been without an outcome .
18 Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements .
19 However , this service has not been without delays and mishaps and early in the season Regional Railways had no stock for it , an InterCity rake with buffet + DVT was substituted but the DVT came off at Salop !
20 A representative of the 15-member Commonwealth observer group said that the elections had been free and fair , although the process had not been without incident and there were imperfections in the electoral lists .
21 Although this use of the survey seemed to offer to social scientists a more scientific way of approximating closely to a natural scientific model of research , incorporating measurement and quantification , hypothesis-testing , generalisability and theory relevance , it has not been without its problems and controversies .
22 The big scoreboard behind the stands showed that the professional side of the tournament had not been without its drama .
23 However , this ad hoc procedure has not been without its critics , largely because of doubts about whether it is possible to perform the exercise with sufficient precision to arrive at a clear-cut evaluation .
24 The job of supervising health policy for Scotland 's largest heath authority has not been without its difficulties .
25 It 's not been without pain and I pay tribute to our staff 's willingness to embrace the changes that we 've had to make .
26 That adjustment has not been without its advantages , in fact .
27 It 's just not good enough , it 's every time he gets some new feathers and as an officer of the Roman Imperial Army he must not be without feathers .
28 In the climate of the Third Reich itself , it goes without saying that the barrage of Nazi propaganda could not be without effect in extending and deepening already prevalent anti-Semitic attitudes .
29 A woman I know has given me the name of a midwife who will come and otherwise I shall have to engage a nurse for the shortest time possible since I can not be without assistance when my time comes .
30 I would not be without it now .
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