Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun] from [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all very well to have two-way communication , but we need some high technology which will prevent trains from slamming into the back of each other . |
| 2 | He said Darlington had attracted a lot of new companies and businesses and if the town was downgraded it could actually deter others from coming to the town . |
| 3 | ‘ These factors do discourage shoppers from coming to the centre . |
| 4 | An argument for clemency toward him could be grounded in the belief that it would be a tactical error to declare Copernican doctrines heretical , because that might discourage Protestants from returning to the Roman fold . |
| 5 | British audiences may derive enjoyment from laughing at the psychobabble , wincing at the plot contrivances and gaping at the crashingly obvious phallic symbolism , but the movie as a whole goes off at half-Hitchcock . |