Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [verb] without [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | d ) Changing conceptions of professionalism — finally , it should not pass without comment that the traditional concept of professionalism on which successive generations of solicitors have been reared was not uncommonly perceived to have been undermined by the dominant political and economic ideology of the last decade , with its emphasis on consumerism and market forces . |
| 2 | If the proceedings are not wholly discontinued , execution may not issue without leave ( Ord 18 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 3 | I could not contemplate without alarm the idea of filling up with gloomy looking Buildings in the Gothic style , [ the ] whole of the space between Downing Street and Great George Street . |
| 4 | He never ate between breakfast and sunset , but could not last without tea until the meal he clearly still found extraordinary , eaten by wax candlelight in the dining-room at an hour when all his shepherds were asleep . |
| 5 | In Gouda a city-centre network of tactile strips of ribbed paving stones that could be followed by those using a stick proved adequate for elderly and chairbound users , but the blind could not manage without assistance ( Figure 8.6 ) . |
| 6 | The jetset hostess was a hypochondriac who could not manage without sleeping pills . |
| 7 | You could not live without hope , some part of her woman 's intuition told her : while a future was left you must not . |
| 8 | The winter of 1958 again induced his emphysema ; it was foggy , and he could not breathe without effort . |
| 9 | It was singularly foolish because it obviously could not work without reciprocity , and no Dominion leader , not even his erstwhile friend Bennett of Canada , was willing to throw their markets open to British goods . |
| 10 | Inept handling of the match by the referee ensured that the game would not pass without incident . |
| 11 | People would not die without computer games , the latest Sylvester Stallone movie or a bank holiday trip to Alton Towers , and ‘ the leisure economy ’ is thus dependent on essentially unstable , individual , market needs and choices . |
| 12 | In June , with eleven months still to go , he was told by his doctor that his state of nervous exhaustion was such that if he did not immediately take a week 's rest at Chequers ( which with Parliament sitting inevitably involved a public announcement ) he would not survive without collapse until the end of July . |
| 13 | ‘ Partnership ’ is an acknowledgement that business will not invest without encouragement , combined with a view that long-term investment needs to be self-sustaining . |
| 14 | But Thorfinn will be at a crossroads he can not leave without help . ’ |
| 15 | At the same time , spacetime itself will break up ; as matter and energy can not exist without spacetime as a ‘ basis ’ , the end product of this process can be nothing butnothing . |
| 16 | Just as day can not exist without night or the Sun without the Moon , logic is dehumanised without the balance of intuition and feeling . |
| 17 | City life can not exist without security in its open spaces , some unarmed trust and reciprocity . |
| 18 | Just as up can not exist without down , left without right , hot without cold , so existence is a condition of non-existence , space of non-space , being of non-being . |
| 19 | ‘ Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 20 | Even if she was unaware of what she was signing , and the bank did not take adequate steps to explain the effect of her signature , nevertheless she can not succeed without proof of agency . |
| 21 | Spiders can go long periods between meals but can not do without moisture — becoming dehydrated very quickly . |
| 22 | Althusser 's mistake , according to Hirst , was to attempt to construct another philosophy of history ; but any theory of history , he contends , can not do without teleology , spirituality ( the realization of the Idea ) , and the continuum . |
| 23 | If you really can not do without salt , then use a very small amount only . |
| 24 | In conclusion , it seems that we can not accept without question the dramatic increase in recorded crime as corresponding to a real increase in victimization of the same proportions . |
| 25 | ‘ Whereas Charles may suffer in silence and put up with an unsatisfactory relationship , Diana 's chart shows she can not live without love . |
| 26 | It proves a domesticated animal , accustomed to being fed by hand , can not live without man . ’ |
| 27 | I simply can not live without mascara , loose powder and a natural coloured lipstick . |
| 28 | Many claim they can not survive without government help . |
| 29 | They can not breed without water , and their thin skins must be kept moist or they will dehydrate and die . |
| 30 | As researchers , though , they can not operate without reference to that wider community of others who are active in research , wherever those others are based . |