Example sentences of "to avoid [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More difficult to avoid are the poisonous jellyfish . |
| 2 | The foods to avoid are shown in Table 5 . |
| 3 | The things to avoid are principally a sort of subterranean trembling that begins in the body and communicates itself to your vocal chords and even , on occasion , to the chair in which you are sitting , and those long swallows , which you never seem to do at any other time but now occur unstoppably at the wrong point of emphasis in the sentence . |
| 4 | Species to avoid are the Knobbed starfishes ( Protoreaster lincki and Pentaceraster species which are carnivorous grazers of all the sessile forms of life found in the invertebrate aquarium . |
| 5 | However , the drivers to avoid are the one in 100 who complete fewer than 520 miles per year — they 're the ones you meet coming up the wrong side of the motorway . |
| 6 | The easiest poisons to avoid are those designated as such . |
| 7 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 8 | The death of Shio Tyiven , 26 , in Mount Vernon Hospital , Hillingdon , west London , yesterday will further focus attention on efforts by more than 3,000 Alevi Kurds to avoid being returned to Turkey , where they fear persecution . |
| 9 | Sensitive leniency is not the only principle operating , however , for constables also need to avoid being ‘ taken for a ride ’ by an unrealistic excuse which makes them look foolish . |
| 10 | So women do n't need to wear Burkhas to avoid being seen by strange men . |
| 11 | Careful as he is to cultivate bankers , Mr Murdoch borrows to avoid being controlled . |
| 12 | It is said that Mr Shamir appointed Rehavam Zeevi , who runs a party called Moledat ( Homeland ) , as minister-without-portfolio in his inner cabinet mainly for coalition reasons : he wanted to increase his narrow majority and to avoid being attacked from outside it by the extreme right . |
| 13 | Companies have shouldered too much debt , to play their own financial games or to avoid being taken over ; the balance of risk and reward has become skewed ; the ethics of advisers and intermediaries have come into question ; the market has departed from good sense and sound financial principles , and has passed , with Alice , into a looking-glass world in which words , prices and obligations mean only what people claim they mean , nothing more . |
| 14 | Frankie dashed into the main kitchen and passed the window in a stoop to avoid being seen by the men outside . |
| 15 | A bad driver who drives too fast around corners , or brakes too suddenly will train horses to avoid being floated again ! |
| 16 | The army had initially argued for the sending of an infantry battalion group of about 1,000 troops , partly to balance the large French contingent and partly to avoid being broken into smaller parts under foreign commanders . |
| 17 | May we try to avoid being cruel and unkind even with those people we find it really hard to like . |
| 18 | It is difficult to think of more threatening language than to say that political union must be accepted if countries wish to avoid being dominated . |
| 19 | ‘ Danny Ram ? ’ he said , holding his head aslant to avoid being scorched . |
| 20 | With newly-growing insights , Harry now knows ‘ that my business is not to run away , but to pursue , not to avoid being found , but to seek ’ . |
| 21 | The trick was to avoid being dummy . |
| 22 | Summing up a strange horse 's temperament would be simple , allowing you to avoid being kicked or bitten . |
| 23 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 24 | To avoid being thrown when sailing in waves , look ahead to choose the best course and allow the waves to flex over the waves . |
| 25 | Notice how Peter has adopted a crouched position to avoid being pulled over . |
| 26 | In extreme winds ( Force 6+ ) you have to keep very low to avoid being thrown over the front . |
| 27 | If there is a tide flowing , to avoid being swept downtide you can take a transit on the next mark to steer the rhumb line . |
| 28 | All is done to avoid being put on the spot or challenged . |
| 29 | If you have been very much home-based , you may need some encouragement from your partner in getting involved in community activities or a hobby ; and it may be necessary , in order to avoid being over dependent on another person . |
| 30 | In the face of potential starvation , honey bees finally begin foraging on alfalfa , but they learn to avoid being clubbed . |