Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] without [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Already , support for vertical programmes is waning , as the programmes are unsustainable without continued massive donor support ( SCF , op. cit . ) .
2 Safe , efficient movement over snow and ice is impossible without suitable , well fitting and properly maintained crampons and , like any piece of technical equipment , an understanding of variations in design and methods of use are important to get the best from them .
3 When the device is dedicated to this file the benefits can be very marked , since the index cylinder on the fast device is available without head movement at all times ; if IBM 3340 , 3350 or similar devices that offer some fixed-head capacity are available , these indexes can be held in the fixed-head area .
4 Little if any spiritual recovery is possible without physical and behavioural abstinence .
5 Similarly , if the access is useless without artificial lighting he will be liable to take reasonable care to maintain adequate lighting ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin [ 1977 ] AC 239 ) .
6 In the discussion I have taken the necessity of quantification for granted ( although it sometimes happens in such communities that some patterns of variation are obvious without formal quantification ) .
7 Extension of period of insurance is automatic without extra charge if necessitated by delay of Public Transport services .
8 The Council 's objectives are wholly concerned with economic growth , rather than with the distribution of the benefits of that growth and as a result , the full participation of all members is possible without sectional positions being adopted .
9 The Council 's objectives are entirely concerned with economic growth , rather than with the distribution of the benefits of that growth and as a result , the full participation of all members is possible without sectional positions being adopted .
10 Grandeur was impossible without national unity and without an army that was totally loyal to the state .
11 It was recently experimentally shown that curvature is possible without AnTm tracts , provided that a certain combination of dinucleotide steps occur ( 1–4 ) .
12 It had been sent by e-mail , transferred to a 3.5 ’ floppy disk and as a source of information was useless without specific software and hardware .
13 ‘ Everyone who knows anything about history also knows that great historical revolutions are impossible without female ferment .
14 But even the wealthiest person in the land is poor without spiritual riches .
15 After all , if a fellow was not allowed below waist level — and the all-in-one pantie girdle was impregnable without traitorous and lustful help from the inside — then what else was there but hours of despairing mauling of the mammaries , offered up as they were with the aid of uplift-under-wired-half-cup-sponge-rubber-lace-nylon and steel display cases .
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