Example sentences of "[prep] [be] avoided [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rigidity of approach is something to be avoided at all costs — there is no point in being able to do a ‘ party piece ’ one way and be unable to take in new direction on the same material . |
| 2 | The new actor is generally operating in top gear and if this momentum is stopped it can be very damaging to the morale and can result in an actor 's technical skills going rusty — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 3 | Gardeners occasionally regard shade as an evil to be avoided at all costs . |
| 4 | The ‘ good loser syndrome ’ has to be avoided at all costs . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , to be avoided at all costs is turning each day into a ‘ patchwork quilt ’ of conflicting perfumes . |
| 6 | The middle-aged mother , however , who has dependants , a job , a mortgage and a car — all the trappings of the standard nuclear family , but without the visible support of the person normally responsible for such things — is generally treated like a rabid dog , something acknowledged as being in the neighbourhood but to be avoided at all costs . |
| 7 | As a result , there is a continued shortage of residential care facilities for the full-time residence of mentally handicapped people which is perpetuating the need for mental handicap hospitals to house them , even though it is recognised by all parties that this is to be avoided at all costs . |
| 8 | Quite apart from the problems of decreased fertility and the dangers of ectopic pregnancy , the chronic ill-health and malaise which often follow infection of the tubes make this complication one to be avoided at all costs . |
| 9 | The patient 's death is not an evil to be avoided at all costs , but is an inevitable consequence of his condition . |
| 10 | To be avoided at all costs . ’ |
| 11 | Gusty winds are to be avoided at all costs . |
| 12 | The flat landing Rather like a belly flop in swimming , this is to be avoided at all costs since the flat impact can break a board in half as well as causing injury to the sailor . |
| 13 | Offshore winds are dangerous and are to be avoided at all costs . |
| 14 | The vivid markings and bright colours of these caterpillars ( above ) act as warning signals telling predators that the potential victims are unpalatable , to be avoided at all costs . |
| 15 | According to Andrew Boorde , the author of the first English book of domestic medicine ( his Dyetary ) lettuce was to be avoided at all costs by anyone who valued his or her sex life . |
| 16 | Clearly , I am focusing on the idea that it is the residues of bad experiences that lurk as bad objects in our psyche that cause us so much trouble because they have to be avoided at all costs and so rarely get modified by experience . |
| 17 | Such encounters , be they lawful or unlawful , in wedlock or out of it , were — in common with the plague — to be avoided at all costs . |
| 18 | A shoot-out was to be avoided at all costs , and though Weaver was certainly armed , the moment he was confronted with two heavy-duty thirty-eight calibres , the game would be up . |
| 19 | A lot might seem to hang upon this question since the term is highly emotive — suffering is an unpleasant experience , to be avoided at all costs . |
| 20 | At Great Casterton I had suddenly discovered that this process held a hidden danger and that in the future this had to be avoided at all costs . |
| 21 | If you remove the castle and the only place left for the Synodontis is under the heater , it may burn itself — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 22 | Anything near the Harrow Road , or the canal , or Kensal Green cemetery had to be avoided at all costs . |
| 23 | It was seen as something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 24 | This is to be avoided at all costs if the channel is to remain a mass audience broadcaster . |
| 25 | ‘ A place to be avoided at all costs , ’ he agreed . |
| 26 | A deadly cocktail to be avoided by most organisms . |