Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have [been] avoid " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ This tragedy could have been avoided because the method of decanting used in an enclosed space with a direct source of ignition available and the use of an unsuitable type of hand lamp did not constitute a safe system of working . ’ |
| 2 | However , provided that a movement forwards is made to unstall , the possibility of a full spin will have been avoided . |
| 3 | But we know that that pain and suffering could have been avoided had you accepted earlier advice . |
| 4 | But the crash could have been avoided had the pilot taken a safer course , Sheriff Douglas Risk said in his report on an inquiry into the accident held 13 months ago . |
| 5 | The chances are that in an adult novel — certainly in Masefield 's sea-stories — this kind of instant personal illumination would have been avoided : the alternative , an allusive type of dialogue , would have shifted the emphasis from what is really authorial statement to an implied point of character . |
| 6 | The defendant may escape liability if there is an alternative cause for the defect , or the damage could have been avoided by intermediate examination . |
| 7 | That contract could have been avoided but was not . |
| 8 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 9 | A full list of gliders which can be towed in included , and the concluding paragraph in the fully detailed glider-tugging section states , ‘ Most of the numerous accidents that have occurred during glider-towing operations could have been avoided if pilots had better known and followed these basic rules of safety ’ . |
| 10 | Carson concludes , after carefully researching the individual incidents which constituted this high rate of fatality ( as well as those involving serious injuries ) that the majority could have been avoided if the ‘ political economy of speed ’ had not been allowed to supersede the ‘ political economy of employees lives and limbs ’ . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , this case could have been avoided . |
| 12 | ‘ The accident might have been avoided if he had adopted an approach which enabled him to keep the crane in sight . |
| 13 | Lord Justice Taylor , recently appointed Lord Chief Justice , said that the 95 deaths during and after the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest might have been avoided in an all-seat stadium . |
| 14 | At the same time , however , some of these weaknesses might have been avoided if more careful attention had been given to commercial needs by those originally responsible for framing the administrative structures of nationalised industries [ Chester , 1975 ] . |
| 15 | The Department of Conservation estimated that 60–80 per cent of the dolphin mortalities of the previous 4 years could have been avoided by such restrictions . |
| 16 | Expressing disappointment at the decision to dissolve the Royal Commission , for which the new Advisory Council would be no substitute , Heath contended that such a serious outcome could have been avoided if , after the resignation of the initial six members , the Prime Minister or the Home Secretary had said firmly that they would appoint others to take their place . |
| 17 | ‘ In general terms , this accident could have been avoided had the petrol vapour not been exposed to a source of ignition , ’ Mr Haddock added . |
| 18 | The fire officer who investigated the blaze said the accident could have been avoided if a safer method of working had been used . |
| 19 | Mario Buracchia , the commander of Italian naval forces in the Gulf , resigned on Jan. 30 after the magazine Famiglia Cristiana quoted him as saying that war could have been avoided " with a little more wisdom " and the continuation of the economic embargo . |
| 20 | If the building society had used the additional deposit to buy public sector debt , then the consequence would have been avoided . |
| 21 | The clash between the end-weight and subject-before-predicate principles could have been avoided by switching from passive to active and inserting a subject such as We or This paper : |
| 22 | And , although this is probably hoping for too much , the by now traditional attempt to pin the blame on the auditors might have been avoided . |
| 23 | There were fragments of evidence , however , to suggest that the final collision might have been avoided . |
| 24 | A couple of back-row changes and a second-row change were badly needed and I are sure the humiliation against the Wallabies could have been avoided if the selectors had acted on the evidence . |
| 25 | If the Government had listened to the police and taken prompt action on any of those warnings — action for which they could have secured all-party support — I have no doubt that some of this summer 's tragedies would have been avoided . |
| 26 | Had the French not been so proud , the anonymous chaplain of Henry V 's household asserted , they would have recognised that earlier defeats which they had experienced ( he was referring to the battles fought at Sluys in 1340 and at Poitiers in 1356 ) , constituted a clear sign of divine arbitrament , and much bloodshed would have been avoided . |
| 27 | If this diversification had been achieved , it is argued , the worst effects of the fall in copper prices might have been avoided . |
| 28 | Conservative Coun Peter Jones said the Dryden affair could have been avoided if both sides had known where they stood from the outset . |
| 29 | Clearly Auld was of the opinion that the Tyndale incident could have been avoided if the authority had taken a wider view of its role . |
| 30 | The offence could have been avoided by a clear statement in the letter explaining the overbooking policy and the consequent risk to the ‘ reservations . ’ |