Example sentences of "a way [prep] avoiding " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking about women is a way of avoiding the thought of death — and yet women may be the end of you . |
| 2 | The idea is that the person turns homosexual as a way of avoiding competition , conflict , or tension with a significant other . |
| 3 | Thinking about anything else was just a way of avoiding the choice . |
| 4 | No one can guarantee a way of avoiding heart disease but the risks can be greatly reduced . |
| 5 | Credit cards enjoyed their boom in the Eighties , but are now suffering from the Nineties backlash as consumers become more cautious in their spending and turn to charge cards as a way of avoiding interest rates . |
| 6 | But this is just a way of avoiding responsibility for our lives . |
| 7 | Is it a way of avoiding responsibility for your life ? |
| 8 | I thought of a way of avoiding the cliché and asked , ‘ What is the average life expectancy of someone with follicular lymphoma ? ’ |
| 9 | As a way of avoiding crippling purchase tax , which only applied to completed goods , Mr Chapman came up with the idea of selling the car in kit form . |
| 10 | As winter draws on , many people 's thoughts turn to stocking up on vitamin supplements as a way of avoiding colds and flu viruses . |
| 11 | Waiting to get motivated may be a way of avoiding fear of failure . |
| 12 | A RECORD number of 16-year-olds will stay on at schools and colleges next month — but for many it is simply a way of avoiding the dole queue . |
| 13 | A lot of encouragement has been given in recent years to the idea of increasing one 's roses by making cuttings — almost proposing it seems , that it is a way of avoiding the cost of buying new plants . |
| 14 | We have seen ( pp. 30–1 , above ) that the vast expansion in the number of such fires in the postwar years had provided consumers with a way of avoiding the consequences of coal rationing , but the effects on the electricity supply system were devastating . |
| 15 | But at this point it is worth mentioning briefly that there are plenty of examples of people ‘ losing touch ’ with their elderly parents as a way of avoiding maintenance payments , during the period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when certain Boards of Guardians were trying rigidly to enforce financial liabilities . |
| 16 | This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity : |
| 17 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 18 | But really it was a way of avoiding her . |
| 19 | Probation Officers were overworked , and a suspended sentence was a way of avoiding adding to their case loads . |
| 20 | The female cuckoo has , notoriously , found a way of avoiding them altogether . |
| 21 | Laura liked the idea , partly because it was a way of avoiding import duty , but also because the eastern Kentucky women who worked at the factory were similar to the Welsh women she had first hired in the Sixties ; rural , with strong ties to family and community and skilful seamstresses by upbringing . |
| 22 | They were also set up as a way of avoiding off-site referral . |
| 23 | Have Ministers considered taxing people who accommodate students as a business the universal business rate rather than the property rate , and whether that might be a way of avoiding any burden falling on students ? |
| 24 | She did n't look at him now , but stared at her plate , and nibbled at a piece of fresh bread as a way of avoiding conversation . |