Example sentences of "[be] [adv] without [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things like , it was us who set up the Benefits Unit in the Town Centre , you know , we , it was considered that you know we as a neutral policy team are in without departmental buyers rather than political buyers , that 's a joke , erm , would be the best people to erm , er set up this unit , we do n't have any less interest , the benefit 's , the benefit 's felt within the housing department with with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Poll Tax benefit , it was n't clear where that could go , so we were the people who had to sort that out . |
| 2 | Such developments in South America are not without adverse environmental consequences , though they are more limited than those of African savannas where population levels are much higher . |
| 3 | Although the authorities are directly in charge of broadcasting , governments are not without considerable powers over broadcasting . |
| 4 | I just have to wait for his letter , but I think the sensible thing to do would be to talk to you about what he 's putting you on because a lot of these drugs are not without potential side effects . |
| 5 | These procedures are not without academic credentials ( Haynes 1980 : 102 — 7 ) , and describe the way most organisations have always behaved for most of the time . |
| 6 | Not that Caribbean parents are totally without sporting involvements : there are rare exceptions in the form of Ray Tabi 's father whom he disowned but still acknowledged as his ‘ first lead into boxing ’ ; and the father of heavyweight Howard Henlan had also been a boxer and was instrumental in stimulating his son 's interest . |
| 7 | Ibrox manager Walter Smith said : ‘ We are still without injured Gary Stevens and suspended Ian Ferguson , but we are in a good position with our squad . |
| 8 | Sabesp claims that the project is needed to supply more than 500,000 people in the state who are still without running water and a further 2 million suffering severe shortages . |
| 9 | While Brunner naturally had not the remotest intention of supporting anything of this kind , his concern for his own kind of natural theology seemed to Barth to be wholly without adequate defences against it . |
| 10 | Reforms would not be enough without cultural change among companies , institutions , analysts and investors . |
| 11 | Ammonoids , heteromorphs included , are almost without parallel as stratigraphic indicators . |
| 12 | The accused , who were apparently without legal representation , faced various charges arising from the rebellion , including inciting people to take up arms , accommodating rebels and planning the rebellion . |
| 13 | On his appointment in Scotland he formed part of a group of geologists who , in the period before World War I , were internationally without parallel for their original insights into metamorphic and igneous rocks and the intricate problems of structural geology . |
| 14 | Although adults are involved with the organisation of the network , for the most part , the dialogue between the children is entirely without adult supervision . |
| 15 | Even before birth a human being is not without legal recognition , for the antenatal life is protected by the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929 . |
| 16 | This is not without good reason . |
| 17 | At all events we shall not go wrong in assuming that it is not without good reason that he tells us of so impressive a roll call of nationalities on the day of Pentecost ( 2:5–11 ) . |
| 18 | It is not without considerable irony that he should choose an example which is so uniquely interventionist as to render his previous assertion almost meaningless . |
| 19 | And the sheer incidentals , the imagined languages of the Martian creatures , the poetic hrossi , the intellectual sorns and the practical and commercially minded pfifftriggs have a playful quality which , while being purely enjoyable , is not without satiric edge . |
| 20 | ( iii ) The absence of an inner , concentric band produces a more open arrangement , wherein the trees are taller , the animals less restricted , and where the design suggests a radial movement ( which , with regard to the " fully radial arrangements of mosaics showing Orpheus , at Littlecote and Winterton , Lincs. , both dated to periods after 350 , is not without chronological significance ) . |
| 21 | Manager Malcolm Crosby is already without regular strikers Don Goodman , Peter Davenport and Colin Pascoe . |
| 22 | No store cupboard worth its salt is ever without Italian tomatoes — top of the list for canned standbys . |
| 23 | It recommended that ‘ as rape is a crime which is still without statutory definition , the lack of which has caused certain difficulties , we think that this legislation should contain a comprehensive definition of the offence which would emphasise that lack of consent ( and not violence ) is the crux of the matter . ’ |
| 24 | For example , Videologic 's real-time video capture and manipulation system , the DVA-4000 board , could not have become the great success it is today without Videologic 's excellent accompanying authoring software . |
| 25 | And what the devil , Kee is n't without sexual experience after all : she has a past . |
| 26 | Mass anxiety is never without political consequences , and in a totalitarian society there is no more radical emotion than disbelief . |
| 27 | The Buddy Bear Centre — a former school — is currently without public funding , until the Department of Education carry out an inspection to assess it . |
| 28 | His career was not without personal risk : the sculptor was nearly mauled in the dockyards at Puteoli while drawing caged animals destined for the arena . |
| 29 | Initially , at any rate , it was not without genuine benefits to the unions and the working class — the changes in labour law and the reform of pensions in particular . |
| 30 | However , the Locksfields firm was not without serious difficulties . |