Example sentences of "without [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since art critics have these working assumptions in mind , and it is with their writing we shall be mainly concerned , we need to proceed without being distracted . |
| 2 | Read was a progressive without being wholly partisan . |
| 3 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 4 | Even the interview system is not an ideal one — once again you 're having to sell yourself — and if you 're a character actor like I am I can not show myself without being somebody else . |
| 5 | In such matters it is the most obvious things which are the most important and which stare at you from under the nose without being perceived . |
| 6 | ‘ Disloyal to letter boxes , ’ I said to myself and went down the passage where I could laugh without being heard . |
| 7 | So it is something further , without being a further fact . |
| 8 | The problem with any general behaviouristic account of knowledge is that it is impossible to make sense of any behavioural description without being able to make sense independently of statements about how the world is . |
| 9 | No doubt there are modern adepts who might scoff at our amateur efforts , but that 's just what we were , amateurs struggling in a land for the E6 leader or the A3 and A4 aider , without being able to do either . |
| 10 | Based on the simple concept of maintaining balance in a bridge , it managed this without being intrinsically sensitive to loudspeaker load impedance variations . |
| 11 | ‘ Might there not be a case for putting the initial interview in the hands of an educational psychologist skilled in eliciting a history without being committed to what the social workers revealingly call ‘ disclosure ’ ? ' , he suggested . |
| 12 | Mr Sheppard believes the task calls for accomplished generalists who know something of law , accounting , commercial practice , people management and administrative systems , without being confined to a narrow , specialist niche . |
| 13 | ‘ After years of having gentlemen call us ‘ duck ’ and ‘ darling ’ , surely we can call one of them ‘ cuddly ’ without being offensive . ’ |
| 14 | A friend of mine says that her body tells her , without being asked , the season of the year . |
| 15 | Elbowing his way through the crowd at the ‘ colonial streetfair ’ inside the Loews Glenpointe Hotel , he said that having paid $500 to get in , he was n't about to leave without being photographed with the next governor of New Jersey . |
| 16 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 17 | Increasingly , people on these and other estates were turning to loan sharks , who offered money even without being asked . |
| 18 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 19 | Single : ( also known as base hit ) when a batter hits the ball in fair territory and reaches first base without being thrown out . |
| 20 | Club racing tends to be fun and competitive , without being too serious , and usually becomes the principal activity for many dinghy sailors . |
| 21 | The Andalo is made with a medium stiff Torsion Flex 3 midsole which gives rigidity and strength without being too inflexible like some heavier leather boots . |
| 22 | Nobody can draw attention , for instance , to the rational scholastic relationship between professor and student , without being considered a candidate for a mental institution . |
| 23 | Then , if the target A&R person does come , there is a better chance of him or her making a fair analysis of the artist without being caught up in A&R peer pressure . |
| 24 | Because I could n't countenance how you could stay under water without being asphyxiated , and yet at the same time I was incapable of comprehending the trick . |
| 25 | Their smiles were like a knowing wink : sussed and street-wise without being in the least dour or po-faced . |
| 26 | Her Uncle Wong , her grandmother 's friend , who was now under a shadow so deep that without being told , Maggie knew she must not mention his name , her beloved Uncle Wong had given her Fenna . |
| 27 | Quickly they swept up the pieces and hid them away , wondering how they would replace the plate without being found out . |
| 28 | Today , the Dino Berlinetta Speciale remains a fascinating design , aggressive without being just a road-going version of a racing Ferrari and rich in class and atmosphere like all the outstanding Pininfarina designs . |
| 29 | A pretty pass we 've come to if a man ca n't have a friend without being labelled queer . ’ |
| 30 | Films like Lady Audley 's Secret ( 1920 ) , the story of a bigamous marriage and a woman 's cold-blooded murder of her devoted husband , were sensational without being plotted or shoot with an eye to involving an audience . |