Example sentences of "avoid [v-ing] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Williams , Master of the Jewels and Treasurer of Augmentations under Henry VIII , avoided rendering any accounts whatever during his eight years at the Jewel-House , piled up large arrears in Augmentations , and embezzled £31,000 which were not entered in the books . |
| 2 | Try to avoid using any one component in a design that is much darker than all the others . |
| 3 | Then again , there are other genres which try to avoid using any technical terms at all , in the belief that literary studies should be accessible to all without special training in a professional vocabulary . |
| 4 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm frightened of horses — but I was aware of all the rumours about me being ‘ difficult ’ to work with , so I got on the horse to avoid causing any problems . |
| 6 | It is important when collecting soil to avoid getting any old leaves or weeds mixed in with it , as these will only decompose and foul the water . |
| 7 | Groups such as APRA , which were aiming to create a broad alliance across class boundaries , were obliged to resort to very general slogans , typified by their rallying cry of ‘ Against Yankee imperialism , for the unity of the peoples of Latin America , for the realisation of social justice ’ , in order to avoid alienating any of their potential supporters . |
| 8 | Although subjected to heavy pressure from abolitionists , most of them on their own benches , the Labour Government had avoided giving any commitment on the future of the death penalty . |
| 9 | Typically , the reasoning component of the system will be more expensive and less reliable than the linguistic components , and constraints between anaphors can sometimes allow the system to avoid doing any non-linguistic reasoning at all . |
| 10 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 11 | However , care should be taken not to use a professional counsellor as a " fixer " who enables one to avoid doing any real work of one 's own . |
| 12 | ‘ We would hope to avoid cutting any single major service . |
| 13 | But he said : ‘ I have been careful to avoid modelling any of the characters on individual members of our Royal family . |
| 14 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 15 | He has given the players a week off training to avoid incurring any injuries . |
| 16 | But the mayor had studiously avoided endorsing any of the old pols running . |
| 17 | The Ambassador replied that he realized that no statement could be made on this subject and he himself had avoided making any such statement which he felt might prove embarrassing . |
| 18 | A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise . |
| 19 | When nailing or screwing down carpet gripper strips , be careful to avoid piercing any water pipes or electricity cables . |
| 20 | To avoid missing any action , I 've moved inside , from the wing to the rear-view mirror . |
| 21 | When you reach the position on the front where you wish to divide the work you can avoid knitting any extra rows by this method : Thread your bodkin with a nylon cord and remove the stitches required to be joined , later , to the neckband . |
| 22 | The trigger points are innumerable but the nurse should have the maturity to deal with the resultant feelings in a constructive way that avoids reflecting any annoyance on to the patient . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the parties and their directors should avoid causing any changes in the scheme particulars prior to the court-ordered meeting . |
| 24 | Answer : when it is called Microsoft Windows/NT Advanced Server — Microsoft Corp says that it has invoked the name change so as not to confuse customers since a lot of the functions of the OS/2-based LAN Manager which we know and love are already incorporated into the base operating system and Advanced Server will provide only the extras such as multi-domain management ; coincidentally of course , Microsoft will avoid discouraging any users that were n't particularly enamoured of LAN Manager 's original incarnation . |
| 25 | Answer : when it is called Microsoft Windows/NT Advanced Server — Microsoft Corp says that it has invoked the name change so as not to confuse customers since a lot of the functions of the OS/2-based LAN Manager which we know and love are already incorporated into the base operating system and Advanced Server will provide only the extras such as multi-domain management ; coincidentally of course , Microsoft will avoid discouraging any users that were n't particularly enamoured of LAN Manager 's original incarnation . |
| 26 | He claims not only that the parties to the original position will avoid choosing any particular perfectionist principle as a constituent of their doctrine of justice , but that they will not even accept a doctrine of justice including an agreed process for determining which perfectionist principle should be implemented in the state . |
| 27 | Indeed , an article at this length will frequently avoid mentioning any work of art by name , being limited instead to a generalised description of an artist 's work . |
| 28 | ‘ We must also avoid offering any challenge to legitimate Soviet security interests , ’ he said . |
| 29 | If this is unavoidable , then the preparator should avoid covering any craniometric points , and as much of the endocranial ( internal ) surface as possible should be left visible . |
| 30 | Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment . |