Example sentences of "prevent [pers pn] from have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 2 | The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum . |
| 3 | Strong abdominal muscles will prevent you from having a ‘ pot belly' . |
| 4 | At least , he felt , an act of Providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience . |
| 5 | The need to do this could arise when time and space prevent him from having immediate contact with his source of succour , as would occur for example , on hunting expeditions . |
| 6 | In the event , Tyndale 's unorthodox beliefs and his lack of support for the annulment prevented him from having any direct impact on royal policy . |
| 7 | It could not prevent him from having doubts . |
| 8 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 9 | What in our political and cultural traditions prevent us from having a ‘ pro-people ’ health service — and society for that matter ? |
| 10 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 11 | ‘ Marseille lead the group and remain the favourites to go through , but we gave them two goals of a start at Ibrox and still drew with the French on a night when injury prevented us from having Ally McCoist . ’ |
| 12 | The dualism is deemed disastrous because it prevents us from having a unified conception of the world built around the natural sciences , and because it leaves the relationship between the mental and the physical an insoluble mystery . |
| 13 | Is lack of knowledge preventing you from having a go at hunter trials , eventing or showing ? |
| 14 | ‘ His mother tried to prevent him from having access to the phone but even that did n't stop him . |
| 15 | We 've , the protest succeeded in focusing a spotlight on this northern test site where the Soviets hope to continue nuclear testing after their own people stopped them in Khazakstan They 're rattled and they 're angry with us , and now they 're punishing us by preventing us from having direct communication with our friends and finding out that they 're safe and well . |