1.   For many, a good meal is incomplete without a fine wine.

2.   TV ads implied that a woman was incomplete without a man.

3.   Dealing with the interest of one party in joint property would be incomplete without mention of the doctrine of severance.

4.   And while the book would have been incomplete without it, its presence, oddly, adds little.

5.   A Dickensian Christmas is incomplete without a taste of the supernatural.

6.   But any nature story would be incomplete without an environmental conflict, and the dispute over the Madrid dump has put conservationists against city hall.

7.   But so many things can happen that an analysis of the game is incomplete without an explanation of most of them.

8.   Everybody agrees that a plan is incomplete without an end game.

9.   He knew his search for justice would be incomplete without seeing the final chapter in a story that had dominated his life for so many years.

10.   I knew my first London visit would feel incomplete without the Beatles in my itinerary, because their music has been essential to my life.