Example sentences of "order avoid [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Duke had contested the election as a Republican , he had been disowned by most of the party 's establishment , and the official Republican candidate had withdrawn from the contest in order to avoid splitting the anti-Duke vote . |
| 2 | The draftsman should , therefore , consider whether to impose on the tenant a limit to the number of persons who may be employed in the demised property in order to avoid overloading the available facilities . |
| 3 | I believe the frat kid may be holding back in order to avoid hurting the ailing legend . |
| 4 | This volume was confined to the central area because excavation was restricted to the ‘ core ’ of the plan in order to avoid undermining the existing external wall foundations ( Fig 43 ) . |
| 5 | In order to avoid thickening the whole wall area , as the Romanesque builders had done , the Gothic mason provided extra reinforcement in the form of a stone buttress at the point on the wall where it was most needed . |