Example sentences of "means of escaping [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This precaution should in any event be taken , for decaying vegetation in water generates toxic gases which can be lethal for fish , particularly during winter when the pool becomes covered with ice and these gases have no means of escaping into the air . |
| 2 | Education , he believed , should offer a means of escaping from the alienation and poverty that bedevils that area ( Freire 1968 ) . |
| 3 | Mr Barnet was no more than a business acquaintance , but with true American hospitality he had taken pity on the young English couple who had no means of escaping from the city . |
| 4 | Countertrade is a means of escaping from the straitjacket of the world system when it pinches too tightly . |
| 5 | Harmony based on notes a perfect fourth apart ( ‘ quartal harmony ’ ) has been used by composers for almost the entire century , as a means of escaping from the old harmony based on thirds , with its complex systematization and expansion into the chromatic field . |
| 6 | In those dispiriting circumstances it comes as no surprise to find politicians trying to offer a means of escaping from the encircling gloom . |