Example sentences of "been without " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 2 | The resurrection has not been without pain , however . |
| 3 | The joint Harrier venture with the US Marine Corps has proved an outstanding exception , though it has not been without its problems . |
| 4 | Somalia , they say , has anyway been without effective government over the past year . |
| 5 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 6 | In fact we were put right in the front row , and Aunt Louise graced her position perfectly ; her evident enjoyment and generous ( though ladylike ) applause could not , I felt , have been without its encouragement to the players . |
| 7 | The Philharmonie has n't been without its critics . |
| 8 | The steady flow of investment and acquisitions , supported by an £88m rights issue 12 months ago , have not been without hiccups , however . |
| 9 | Liverpool have been without five of the powerful line-up Mr Souness selected for the first match against Portsmouth in the intervening League games . |
| 10 | Having been without a tutor-organiser since 1958 , Essex Federation representatives on the District Council have suggested from time to time that other counties might benefit from following their example . |
| 11 | This was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of branches , from 158 in 1953–54 to 189 in 1957–58 ; losses in Bedfordshire ( 15 branches down to 11 ) and the Fenland ( 23 down to 15 ) , both of which had been without a tutor-organiser for much of the period , were more than offset by gains everywhere else , notably in Essex ( 27 branches up to 40 ) and Suffolk ( 14 up to 32 ) . |
| 12 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 13 | I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves . |
| 14 | No self-respecting Victorian or Edwardian woman would have been without a nail buffer , usually made from chamois leather , to ensure that her fingertips were always gleaming . |
| 15 | Of course AMV has not been without its critics . |
| 16 | Notice that over 40 per cent of those people unemployed on the day of the count had been without work for over a year . |
| 17 | This implies that the number of jobs associated with any given level of output in the economy will be smaller than it would have been without the technological advances . |
| 18 | Browse in the gift shop or enjoy refreshment in the restaurant , and you can reflect for a few moments on how different things might have been without the events of 1066 . |
| 19 | However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems . |
| 20 | C64 mags have been without a good section for yonks , and yet here in ZZAP ! |
| 21 | It may be that they have been without God and alone and lost in the world and that through the preaching of the word they have become Christians . |
| 22 | This has not been without considerable sacrifice and testing of faith . |
| 23 | Some of the worst tyrants have in fact been without private vices : as Bertrand de Jouvenel once noted , ‘ power is the most perfect form of self-indulgence ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Think of where we would have been without nurses during the war . ’ |
| 26 | John has been without a father for one year ( line 3 ) . |
| 27 | The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka . |
| 28 | And although the path from Harlequins coach to Geoff Cooke 's right-hand man has n't been without its problems , there has been a sort of inevitability about his gradual promotion to the national squad . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 30 | We 've been without a Marshal nearly four months — not that I ca n't cope , but you know how it is when half the boys we get are on National Service and by the time you 've begun to knock them into shape they 're ready to leave . ’ |