Example sentences of "[art] way [prep] avoiding the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking about women is a way of avoiding the thought of death — and yet women may be the end of you . |
| 2 | Thinking about anything else was just a way of avoiding the choice . |
| 3 | I thought of a way of avoiding the cliché and asked , ‘ What is the average life expectancy of someone with follicular lymphoma ? ’ |
| 4 | A RECORD number of 16-year-olds will stay on at schools and colleges next month — but for many it is simply a way of avoiding the dole queue . |
| 5 | A lot of encouragement has been given in recent years to the idea of increasing one 's roses by making cuttings — almost proposing it seems , that it is a way of avoiding the cost of buying new plants . |
| 6 | We have seen ( pp. 30–1 , above ) that the vast expansion in the number of such fires in the postwar years had provided consumers with a way of avoiding the consequences of coal rationing , but the effects on the electricity supply system were devastating . |
| 7 | This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity : |
| 8 | It ensured there was no turning back , no switching to alternative paths , no way of avoiding the future it had prepared . |