Example sentences of "to avoid giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Western governments , which have been careful to avoid giving the appearance of fomenting unrest in eastern Europe , the Norwegian Nobel committee is thought to be ready to try to advance the cause of democracy in a country which has shown only the most rudimentary signs of change . |
| 2 | A film director turned the Jewish judge in ‘ The Bonfire of the Vanities ’ black , to avoid giving offence . |
| 3 | This was not an unconscious result of everybody 's inability to be value-free , but an achieved conventional politeness , consciously assumed to avoid giving offence : it also , incidentally , put the burden of being disagreeable on anyone who wished to oppose the unstated assertions . |
| 4 | Tormented by allegations of adultery , draft evasion , and venality , he has limped through to victory with an empty campaign , crafted to avoid giving offence to anybody . |
| 5 | In Madrid , the new government of General Prim was equally aware that their actions would need to avoid giving offence to France and that this was particularly the case when it came to choosing a new monarch to replace the dethroned Isabella . |
| 6 | So we struggle to avoid giving God our whole heart . |
| 7 | We even talk about armies marching on their stomachs , a typically perverse attempt to avoid giving credit to feet , upon which all armies march . |
| 8 | The Professor was told he was allowed to see diseased horses of subscribers only between one and three o'clock , and he was also told to avoid giving an opinion on any proposed purchaser of horses . |
| 9 | A lanky cleric oozing good intentions and bad faith then launched into an address that was squirmingly anxious to avoid giving offence to persons of any or no belief while still suggesting that , who knows , there might after all be , you know , something out there . |
| 10 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 11 | It is common practice in the haulage industry to give customers 30 days from date of invoice in which to pay , and it must be the aim of every haulier to avoid giving extended credit to customers who , for one reason of another , fail to keep within these terms . |
| 12 | The latter must be careful to avoid giving an impression of revelling in the trappings of power , and they must beware of appearing to threaten the prerogatives of other political actors such as the Supreme Court or the Congress . |
| 13 | The archbishop came back under papal orders to avoid giving offence to the king . |
| 14 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 15 | The claims for regional policy , however , should not be pressed too far to avoid giving the impression that regional policies are the answer to the country 's current need for more jobs . |
| 16 | Restrictions on space and the need to avoid giving an overt explanation of reported events which risks the danger of legal suits and liability further restrict the use of conjunctions , particularly causal conjunctions , in journalism . |
| 17 | Suragai was hesitating , and Burun saw that he was trying to choose his words to avoid giving offence . |
| 18 | But when I tried to avoid giving them he ordered me to tell him what was up . |
| 19 | Probably he knew only that Jehana objected to the idea of marrying Artai , and had been told that her family wished to avoid giving offence by rejecting the suit , and so were willing to see her contracted without the preliminary of a courtship . |
| 20 | To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East . |
| 21 | To return to the earlier days of the state , however , one must remark upon several other provisions of the Kanunname of Mehmed II if only to avoid giving the impression that , at least in these early days , the establishment of a hierarchy for the ulema meant that a scholar , once enmeshed in its toils , had no option but the long grind to the top of that particular profession . |
| 22 | Since the Minister is anxious to avoid giving a commitment to set up a further education council , perhaps he could use the opportunity of replying to the debate to rule out a possibility which was raised in the press last year . |
| 23 | All sides — Iran and all parties capable of doing something — can bring pressure to end this tragedy in such a manner as to avoid giving the impression that this was done to make trade or that one side has blackmailed the other into doing something it did not want to do . " |
| 24 | ( Prior to the mass exodus of Albanians to Italy , the Italian government had been thought to be delaying the delivery of food aid to avoid giving a pre-election boost to the communist regime 's popularity . ) |
| 25 | Also , it is necessary to avoid giving the impression that the respondent 's answers are in any way exceptional no matter how hair-raising . |
| 26 | An attempt was made by Lord Denning to avoid giving damages following a suicide ( Hyde v Thameside Area Health Authority ( 1981 ) 2 PN 26 ) . |
| 27 | He was determined to restore order in the countryside , to avoid giving the impression that nobles could force him into concessions , and to silence the most determined of his critics , but he neither abandoned the task of implementing the emancipation statutes nor fought shy of enacting the additional measures to which freeing the serfs gave rise . |
| 28 | Prosecuting counsel told the jury they 'd hatched the plot to claim insurance money , and to avoid giving Stokle his share of the house in Staunton he 'd bought with Stroud . |
| 29 | The revised guidelines are expected to avoid giving care workers specific advice on how to physically restrain absconders . |