Example sentences of "can be [adj] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data analysis can be useful without databases . |
| 2 | No library can be effective without a policy , which sets out aims and objectives , identifies user groups and services , and indicates priorities amongst them . |
| 3 | Leaders in many contexts can be effective without being visionary , and their organizations may be happier places . |
| 4 | This raises the issue whether cross-cultural training can be effective without language training . |
| 5 | Understanding this connection between the form and the function of language will help us to explain how stretches of language , like the request for help with the cat , can be coherent without being cohesive ; it will also help us as language teachers . |
| 6 | Understanding this connection between the form and the function of language will help us to explain how stretches of language , like the request for help with the cat , can be coherent without being cohesive ; it will also help us as language teachers . |
| 7 | Pleasure and the addiction need not come together — either can be present without the other . |
| 8 | The potential for misinterpretation and imperfect communication in the interactions between workers and clients is enormous , and no analysis of the effects of social work intervention can be complete without some attention to the views of those on the receiving end . |
| 9 | There has been much debate about whether increases in costs can be inflationary without an accompanying increase in the money supply . |
| 10 | I 'm not all that religious , I reckon you can be good without goin' to Church , and that , but I know wickedness when I see it , and it ought to be put a stop to . ’ |
| 11 | My other concern is that no strategy can be competent without looking at the urban fringe — the countryside around the City , and by the nature of the Green Belt this includes land in Midlothian and East Lothian . |
| 12 | But the progress of a disease can be mitigated and the disability and suffering of patients can be relieved without finding a cure . |
| 13 | Taxation can be redistributive without being progressive . |
| 14 | In this case , both sentences can be true without their necessarily referring to separate events : one may purchase apples and pears simultaneously . |
| 15 | So you can be footloose without being footsore . |
| 16 | You can be smart without being clever . |
| 17 | You can be happy without it . |