Example sentences of "and without " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recent information from former detainees , lawyers and human rights activists indicates that suspected political opponents of the government , including boys under 18 , have been detained in garde à vue well beyond the maximum 10-day period and without obtaining further authorization after four days as required by Tunisian law . |
| 2 | Nerves afflict everyone in some way , and without them acting would be the poorer . |
| 3 | Covenant theology itself empowers the people to take action against the state in certain and specific circumstances , and Ian Paisley and many of his supporters both within and without the Orange order have frequently used bully-boy tactics , and approved paramilitary processions , marching , and drilling . |
| 4 | He comes to the end of one and without pause is off on another . |
| 5 | And without language we would not be able to conceive it either . |
| 6 | At this he leapt from his chair in one long gingery streak , seized the bag and without ceremony upended it . |
| 7 | And without more ado the two officers fastened their clips about their ankles , wheeled out with velocipedes and were on their way . |
| 8 | He 's got a bad knee and without the union to keep him out of hard physical work he 's stuck really — he 's got no qualifications or anything . ’ |
| 9 | A police graduate I met at a seminar on ‘ Research into the Police ’ , which we had both attended in a private capacity and without force blessing or financial assistance , later wrote to me : |
| 10 | And without more ado he booked his one-way ticket . |
| 11 | And without the new grant for golden hellos the World would have lost its research workers . |
| 12 | If there were no refractoriness ( no failures to experience X when trying to have an X-experience ) there could be no basis on which to draw a distinction between appearance and reality , and without this distinction there can be no possibility of thinking about reality . |
| 13 | She felt tired and cold from all her walking , her shoes badly worn , and without thinking she asked the landlady if he had left a note for her . |
| 14 | In the twilight and without my glasses , I could n't really tell . |
| 15 | Space precludes a full account of the APT saga , but briefly stated the purpose of the tilting train is to run through speed-restricted curves in complete safety and without loss of passenger comfort at much higher speeds than can be achieved with conventional rolling stock , enabling journey times to be reduced without recourse to realigning and upgrading existing tracks at prohibitive cost . |
| 16 | I had successfully entered , at seventeen , precocious , and without a standard , the market of a profession which was , at the time I stormed it , financially profitable rather than intellectually exacting . |
| 17 | Every country has its own system for using frequencies , and they have to think about each other — radio waves , after all do not stop at national boundaries and without international collaboration there could be interference and general chaos . |
| 18 | Britain has been muttering that if it perceives a ‘ consensus for democracy ’ in Hong Kong , it will start ‘ talking tough ’ to Peking at a diplomatic level , and perhaps even adopt the Legislative Council proposals for 1995 in the teeth of Chinese opposition and without regard to ‘ convergence ’ with the Basic Law . |
| 19 | It seems extraordinarily right that he should have died , suddenly and without struggle , on a lovely day , gazing from the Catbells ridge over Newlands to the Derwent Fells . |
| 20 | With deference to the Divisional Court and without considering whether its decision could be supported on alternative grounds , his Lordship took the view that the Divisional Court 's judgment went too far and did not support the conclusion it reached . |
| 21 | In a television interview , James Baker , the Secretary of State , said the Panama commander , General Maxwell Thurman , had been sent an order last Tuesday morning , the day of the coup , requiring him to seize General Noriega if there were an opportunity to do so ‘ without risking American life and without open military involvement , then he was free to go ahead ’ . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , though , when one sees the film from which this line was borrowed , a gloriously overheated melodrama by King Vidor entitled Beyond the Forest ( 1949 ) , one is rather startled to hear Davis deliver it with a quite unstudied , unfussy brusqueness and without any of the intonational posturing that Albee has attributed to her . |
| 23 | The new project , which has been launched quietly and without fuss , mirrors a much more highly-publicised initiative — the World Association of Nuclear Operators — promoted some months ago by Lord Marshall , chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board . |
| 24 | Widnes , who had won the official version in thrilling style against Canberra Raiders before more than 30,000 fans at Old Trafford four days earlier , went down 31-6 to the Eagles , a team formed only five years ago and without a permanent home . |
| 25 | He claimed she had instigated the intercourse by first , and without invitation , performing oral sex on him . |
| 26 | He wanted to incorporate the individual into the collective in a way that he believed himself to belong to it — freely and without compulsion . |
| 27 | Without thinking twice about it , and without a single shudder , I began to drill the boys in military exercises and manoeuvres . |
| 28 | At least one guidebook giving precise route descriptions has been written about each of the walks and without exception they 'll take you through some of the loveliest countryside we have . |
| 29 | Britain faced the prospect of a winter without food and without energy , at the mercy of powerful unions and ineffective employers . |
| 30 | It was decolonization without traumas and without tears . |