Example sentences of "avoiding any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it not be preferable , therefore , if the Government , while avoiding any expression of opinion on the merits , advised Parliament that this was not an opportune moment at which to make this important change in the law ? |
| 2 | They were tactful in avoiding any reference to the case and it was Wycliffe who , mellowed by good food and a couple of glasses of Burgundy , brought it up . |
| 3 | It also had the advantage of avoiding any suddenness in the Baldwins ' departure from Chequers and 10 Downing Street . |
| 4 | With the white pieces , he seemed intent on avoiding any continuation that might give him an advantage , playing into total equality , then drifting into an inferior position and time-trouble . |
| 5 | Despite these reservations she thought that it was a good film but at the same time she upheld a longstanding tradition in Socialist Worker of avoiding any discussion of what a ‘ good film ’ might be . |
| 6 | This carefully-worded document rehearsed the arguments for making the joint award , while carefully avoiding any admission of the original mistake . |
| 7 | Dalgliesh carried over one of the chairs and , carefully avoiding any contact with the window or the sill , looked out . |
| 8 | Mr Loveitt played with the stem of his wine glass avoiding any chance meeting of their eyes . |
| 9 | In other words , we have allowed ourselves to be brain-washed into avoiding any interpretation of the past that involves extreme and what might be termed " catastrophic " processes . |
| 10 | LIFESPAN will perform this check during the approval process , but it is worthwhile knowing that it can also be performed by the user , thus avoiding any inconvenience to himself or the approver . |
| 11 | However , there were others , more distinctively local in their orientation : the gradual demise of the traditional two-tier model of primary school management and its replacement by three-tier and matrix models ; the desirability of building on the diversification of staff management roles which PNP has produced , avoiding any contraction of such roles as a consequence of LMS ; the need to acknowledge the pivotal role , for good or ill , played by primary heads , and to work with and through rather than round or against them ; the need to expand the focus of management training courses to encompass the roles and needs of all staff ( not just those of the ‘ managers ’ as conventionally defined ) , to locate management strategies in whole-school analysis , and generally to broaden the concept of ‘ management ’ which currently informs such courses ; the importance of training , support and INSET for heads , and of ensuring that these give close attention to the broader aspects of the expertise needed for headship , such as professional knowledge and personal relationships as well as the more obvious tasks , roles and strategies . |
| 12 | Formal proceedings may be instituted under the ‘ nuisance ’ aspect of s.92 , thus avoiding any difficulties in alleging that an odour is prejudicial to health . |
| 13 | We take them out at about six months to get them used to travelling on buses and trains , as well as teaching them to stop at kerbs , listening for traffic and avoiding any obstacles . |
| 14 | So it was that Henry Smith , who during his lifetime had been famous for avoiding any kind of malicious gossip and for his ability to reconcile opposing factions , was , after his death , at the centre of an international controversy . |
| 15 | With this model , Starfield have entered the semi-hollow arena occupied by such notables as Godin and Washburn , although again avoiding any kind of slavish imitation . |
| 16 | a belated attempt to meet minority principles in a plural democracy by avoiding any definition and by restoring ultimate power of decision to the Oireachtas [ Parliament ] . |
| 17 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 18 | She was then assailed by the oddest feeling that he was avoiding any prospect of the continuation of the conversation begun during the horse trek . |
| 19 | The Chinese press marked the occasion by scrupulously avoiding any mention of the one subject that has preoccupied the rest of the world 's news media : why people keep leaving East Germany . |
| 20 | And by avoiding any suggestion of encouraging or compelling rivals to co-operate , they may also facilitate uniform and non-aggressive pricing through such devices as price leadership and open price-reporting systems . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | The modular approach adopted by the author has achieved his aim of avoiding any loss of continuity . |
| 23 | Smith , true to form , condemned this entirely usual and reasonable delegation of disciplinary authority to the second-in-command as being Coleman 's method of avoiding any loss of popularity with his students . |
| 24 | The simple margin method has the virtue of avoiding any forecasting of future interest rates and coupon values . |
| 25 | He ran the parish church , a nineteenth-century barn of a place , on liberal catholic lines , avoiding any extremity of churchmanship . |
| 26 | And as they walk staccato , carefully avoiding any bumps or pitfalls that will affect their stride , each gets lost in a world that is so familiar to them now . |