Example sentences of "prevent [pron] [prep] become " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has so far prevented them from becoming assimilated to each other is not only the fact that in the field of psychotherapy , differing theories do not readily and happily intermix , but that each theory tends to take sides ( without this necessarily being apparent ) in the eternal dialogue between youth and age . |
| 2 | Instinctively they fear the strength of the emotional ties with their mother , which could prevent them from becoming mature and independent men . |
| 3 | Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive . |
| 4 | Several physiotherapists mentioned that the active nature of the job benefited them physically and a number of people with sensory impairments believed that the nature of the work prevented them from becoming isolated . |
| 5 | He 's very annoyed because his lack of education has prevented him from becoming a candidate for Swansea West in the general election . |
| 6 | While his Christian faith had prevented him from becoming Foreign Minister in Moslem-dominated Egypt , many Western diplomats regarded his marriage to an Egyptian Jew as a potential asset in promoting Arab-Israeli understanding . |
| 7 | This would help expand Moby 's loyalties and prevent him from becoming too dependent on his main daytime companion . |
| 8 | This did , not prevent her from becoming engaged , in 1956 , to Edgar Lintot , who was about to leave Cambridge to take up a pre-registration post at St Michael 's Hospital in Lewisham . |
| 9 | Nothing barring a major disaster can prevent her from becoming a main attraction — Barbara Dennerlein is a star in the ascendant . |
| 10 | This did not prevent her from becoming , likewise , totally seduced by his example . |
| 11 | But the interesting new question is whether Lynagh 's decision to play the closed Australian season with the Benetton club in Italy will prevent him from becoming the new Wallaby skipper . |
| 12 | This , however , did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries . |
| 13 | On the global scale , the oceans that cover almost 70 per cent of the world prevent it from becoming intolerably hot by day , and freezing cold by night . |
| 14 | If private property is to be legitimate within the framework of a liberal society it is also necessary to show that there are constraints which prevent it from becoming a source of power which threatens the liberty of the individual or rivals the power of the state . |
| 15 | Indeed , the enormous catalogue — whose evident production problems will not prevent it from becoming an oeuvre de base — is the reverse of chauvinistic , with French scholars distinctly under-represented . |
| 16 | If it were kept isolated during the critical period nothing would prevent it from becoming an affectionless psychopath for the remainder of its life . |
| 17 | This prevents her from becoming pregnant but does not interfere with her love-life . |
| 18 | Although many believe coverage of such hotel costs ( along with universal access and comprehensiveness ) is one of the distinguishing features of the Canadian system that prevents it from becoming a US-style two-tiered system , Clemenhagen says the need to maintain the system 's integrity must be balanced by ‘ the need for responsible deficit reduction ’ . |
| 19 | This forces upon us a breadth of interest and concern which readily prevents us from becoming too absorbed in the affairs of our own small island . |
| 20 | They are all cold-pressed virgin oils and should be kept in the dark and refrigerated after opening to prevent them from becoming rancid . |
| 21 | Long mike leads need to be properly wired to prevent them from becoming an aerial . |
| 22 | Cleaning tools and equipment : may be disinfected if it is necessary to prevent them from becoming vehicles of contamination . |
| 23 | Mainly , the first part provides examples of potential problems occurring in everyday living and what might be done to prevent them from becoming actual problems . |
| 24 | The design of individual chalets , while having some merit , will do nothing to prevent them from becoming even more obtrusive than the existing caravans . |
| 25 | As a result of complaints by a group of students that Ebussu'ud Efendi 's colleague , Civizade , the Anadolu kazasker , was preventing them from becoming mulazims , Sultan Suleyman charged Ebussu'ud Efendi with looking into the matter . |
| 26 | The carer has to refuse to respond to shouting or aggressiveness or any other kind of unacceptable behaviour , to prevent it from becoming a source of attention for the patient . |