Example sentences of "to avoid [being] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jumped behind Joe to avoid being hit with the stick . |
| 2 | Mr Lamont knows he must produce a confident up-beat budget if he is to avoid being sacked in the next Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 3 | I had so far managed to avoid being kissed by the old bat , but I had the strong feeling that , by the end of the day , she and I were going to be getting physical . |
| 4 | Part of the reason for governments ' ‘ averted gaze ’ has , of course , been the wish to avoid being seen as the obvious source of subsidy and support for struggling enterprises . |
| 5 | Frankie dashed into the main kitchen and passed the window in a stoop to avoid being seen by the men outside . |
| 6 | AD 695 that travellers from afar , or foreigners , are instructed to shout or blow a horn before leaving a road , to avoid being treated as a thief or worse ; this says as much about the controls placed on the English population as the desire to protect foreigners . |
| 7 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 8 | On the other hand , it is important to avoid being pushed into a corner . |
| 9 | He thought you would have to keep well over to one side of the car roof to avoid being struck by the side of the tunnel arch as the train came into Gloucester Road . |
| 10 | Only thirty yards or so separated them , when Curtis saw the Prophet lift a hand from the steering wheel and knock the rear-view mirror out of alignment to avoid being blinded by the glare . |
| 11 | Try to avoid being overcome by the sense of relief at finishing which produces a vague summary or a conclusion of the " thus it can be seen … variety . |
| 12 | It does this by disguising itself as an aphid , in order to avoid being detected by the ants . |
| 13 | What one understands to be the use of computers in spectroscopy is very much a matter of personal prejudice , and care must be taken to avoid being misled by a general title such as this . |
| 14 | On 11 March 1812 he volunteered for the San Domingo ( 74 guns ) , probably to avoid being pressed into the navy . |
| 15 | The leader of the Front of Socialist Forces ( FFS ) Hocine Aït Ahmed ( quoted in El Pais of July 19 ) said that the army should withdraw to avoid being drawn into a power struggle within the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) ; FIS leaders should be brought to trial before civil rather than military tribunals . |
| 16 | Even in ‘ hung ’ councils , where no party has control , senior officers , as Greenwood and Wilson ( 1986 , p. 5 ) observe , ‘ find it difficult to avoid being drawn into the political process ’ . |
| 17 | All is done to avoid being put on the spot or challenged . |
| 18 | So I ran off to Beirut to avoid being put into an orphanage . |
| 19 | The Middle East Economic Digest of May 4 reported that Hrawi reacted cautiously to Geaga 's offer in order " to avoid being put in a situation in which his troops could be compromised " . |
| 20 | To avoid being taken to the cleaners , Which ? suggested the best way of getting good results was to hire a firm recommended by word of mouth . |
| 21 | He claimed he fled to the United States to avoid being executed by the IRA . |
| 22 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 23 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 24 | From the tone of her voice , I thought I was not going to be able to avoid being slung in the box and slipped off the Isle of Wight ferry . |
| 25 | In extreme winds ( Force 6+ ) you have to keep very low to avoid being thrown over the front . |
| 26 | That is done by considering a case in which a passenger can be held equally liable even though he sought to avoid being identified with the aggravated crime . |
| 27 | But as she kept to the inside edge of the footpath to avoid being splashed by the congestion of horse-drawn vehicles her gaze turned to the heart of the city , and all at once her spirits lifted . |
| 28 | If , that is , we survived the cold and managed to avoid being hurled by the wind into that bottomless pit at the base of the waterfall . |
| 29 | Britain had at all costs to avoid being engulfed in a war of succession between Muslims and Hindus , and the only way to do this was to hand over , while there was still time , not to one but to two successor states . |