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

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1 The election was without socialist candidates but still consisted of the Tsar enemies , mainly liberals and social revolutionaries .
2 Although not entirely convinced that the necklace was without real value , Alice did not protest as Félix fastened it around her neck .
3 The Judge was without equal in the line-out .
4 But the USSR is without outside élites and pressure groups , let alone an electorate , to rescue the careers of those who push their luck too far .
5 A staggering portrayal by Dominique Visse in the Prologue ( as Human Fragility ) , three very fine characterizations ( Jocelyne Taillon as the Nurse , Alexander Oliver as a classic Iro and , rather unexpectedly , Martyn Hill as Eumetes ) , a decent Ulysses from Christophe Prégardien : the cast was without real brilliance , leaving stardom for the music and , better still , the ensemble work .
6 The gifted and versatile George , the younger of the two , proved to be the main driving force in the decades which followed , when the nursery was without equal anywhere in the world .
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