Example sentences of "place without [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 makes it an offence to possess a bladed or sharply pointed article in a public place without good reason . |
| 2 | Changes in storage practice , materials and containers sometimes take place without due regard for their effect on protective systems and the possibility of other forms of improvisation can never be eliminated . |
| 3 | This semi-colonial expansion took place without great enthusiasm in St Petersburg . |
| 4 | In this sense the world would be a better place without mental retardation , madness , and senile dementia . |
| 5 | It required from the pianist an unbelievable independence of hands and fingers , so that unevenly spread accents and criss-crossing figurations appeared to drop into place without obvious effort . |
| 6 | But now Chambers insisted that the extensions to growth took place without supernatural interference , so that one species naturally transmuted itself into a higher one at a certain point in time . |
| 7 | The influence takes place without direct contact with the virus — ‘ action at a distance ’ is the applicable term . |
| 8 | The advance towards the EEC had , of course , taken place without British participation , since Britain could not accept the fundamental supranational principle . |