Example sentences of "fall into the trap " in BNC.
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| 1 | All too often we fall into the trap of thinking that the only really joyful experiences of life are those that we do n't have ; we can miss out on so much happiness if we do n't appreciate what we have already . |
| 2 | We fall into the trap of being efficient technicians of life , starved of the personal dimension of being ‘ mercy-full ’ . |
| 3 | She does not idealise those groups , nor fall into the trap of soft-focusing on the ‘ New Man ’ as the answer to all women 's problems . |
| 4 | The danger is that sometimes people who observe focus groups or read the reports on their discussions fall into the trap of saying that ‘ the majority ’ of members favoured a certain viewpoint , when this simply means five out of eight selected individuals . |
| 5 | Many amateur players fall into the trap of using the same club when chipping . |
| 6 | When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us . |
| 7 | Parents often fall into the trap of offering other food in order to tempt the child to eat so that the child appears to be faddy . |
| 8 | In short , whereas there is not the possibility of using an argument from analogy to answer factual questions about time on the Sun , there is the possibility when it comes to people 's feelings , and so , being predisposed by the second reason to think that there is some sort of connection between moaning and the pain-language , we naturally fall into the trap of confusing valid fact-establishing arguments from analogy with invalid meaning-establishing ones , and produce the well-known argument that I am , in general , justified in applying ‘ mental ’ language to other people by the fact that they behave as I do when I 'm in a certain state of mind . |
| 9 | But people sometimes fall into the trap |
| 10 | fall into the trap of thinking that . |
| 11 | whose watchword is awareness lest he fall into the traps set by those who follow darkness , |