Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [been] avoid " in BNC.

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1 But they do occur , and some of them could have been avoided .
2 In fact , even the most basic repairs had been neglected for many years before that , so that structural problems developed where they might have been avoided .
3 The tragedy of it is it could have been avoided .
4 For he was going to be burdened always with the conviction that it could have been avoided .
5 It could have been avoided by having the same verb in ss.18 and 20 or by the Lords in Wilson deciding that " cause " and " inflict " covered the same ground .
6 The only way in which it could have been avoided was for de Gaulle to change his style of leadership .
7 It has the difference , if there is the implication , that in many perhaps in most cases of AIDS , it could have been avoided by , what used to be called clean living .
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