Example sentences of "[adv] to avoid " in BNC.

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1 Another cliché that persists is that chefs work in contract catering only to avoid long hours and the tough competition of hotel and restaurant kitchens .
2 The optional power system should be considered essential , if only to avoid the seriously slow ( 4.6 turns lock to lock , and vague with it ) manual steering that 's listed as standard .
3 However , he should be taken out of his room at least occasionally , if at all possible , if only to avoid claustrophobia .
4 A quail or a mouse also has a relatively large amount of light coloured , ‘ fast ’ , muscle ( white meat ) and hence are forced to use energy in short bursts only to avoid build up of the toxic byproduct of anaerobic respiration , lactic acid .
5 Plenty of times I 'm sure he stayed out only to avoid Mum 's sharp tongue because there was no work to be had for any of the men .
6 These tender areas need a good and close scrutiny , if only to avoid the piercing , stinging effects of an unwelcome invasion upon them .
7 The grant explicitly excluded the royal forest of Inglewood , but this was probably only to avoid setting a precedent for future sheriffs .
8 Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society .
9 To return to the earlier days of the state , however , one must remark upon several other provisions of the Kanunname of Mehmed II if only to avoid giving the impression that , at least in these early days , the establishment of a hierarchy for the ulema meant that a scholar , once enmeshed in its toils , had no option but the long grind to the top of that particular profession .
10 If you 're casting more than a couple of rod-lengths it 's advisable to use a waggler if only to avoid tangles .
11 i Should be located where the exhibition can be supervised , if only to avoid the material being stolen ( known to have happened to one of the Green Belt min–exhibitions ) ;
12 The grant explicitly excluded the royal forest of Inglewood , but this was probably only to avoid setting a precedent for future sheriffs .
13 But it was only to avoid any tedious and wholly inconsequential explanation .
14 It is important to ensure that only current partners appear as lessees/trustees of partnership premises , if only to avoid any possibility that a retired partner who has not been duly replaced on the title could be regarded as still being held out as a member of the firm .
15 The transfer had taken place only to avoid UK death duties .
16 Although the deposed Communist Party leader , Mr Egon Krenz , has been credited with countermanding orders to issue live ammunition to troops standing by to deal with the Leipzig demonstrations , other sources indicate that it was the military district commander who stepped in to avoid bloodshed .
17 Parents ' giving in to avoid a fight reinforces the child 's difficult behaviour next time this same situation occurs and can also be dangerous : 2-year-olds do n't forget and so parents can not hope that their child will not remember their giving in .
18 Was n't that the time when the Bank of England stepped in to avoid the whole City suffering ?
19 The view of Paisley 's critics was that he was implicated but was clever enough to avoid any direct contact .
20 This restricted freedom revolted Steven Morrissey , and his passion turned to the sixties when the ‘ George Best set ’ particularly liberated the city by proving that escapism is there for all who had eyes enough to avoid entrapment .
21 The press is uniquely designed to ensure that the pressure exerted is swift — to reduce the skin-contact time — and yet gentle enough to avoid the escape of unfavourable tannins and oils residing naturally in the pips and stalks .
22 It would be simple enough to avoid their hospitality given sufficient ruthlessness and he had never lacked that when it came to safeguarding his privacy .
23 They must also be large enough to avoid being eaten by Lionfish .
24 Mogg had hailed her victory : ‘ Although Mrs Thatcher 's majority was not quite large enough to avoid a second ballot , the victory was clearly a decisive one . ’
25 Equally important , how many of them will be strong enough to avoid being taken over by foreign companies in the long run ?
26 CINDERELLA made it to the ball — and just often enough to avoid her tennis return from becoming a pantomime farce .
27 But only if you know the market well enough to avoid the pitfalls .
28 The interval must be long enough to avoid any carry-over practice effects between the first administration and the second , but sufficiently short so that it can be assumed that there will have been no change in the real underlying abilities of the children concerned .
29 Just sharp enough to avoid sentimentality
30 However , they know enough to avoid the angry man , now getting angrier by the minute .
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