Example sentences of "prevent them from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They saw some ‘ family homes ’ which looked like ordinary mental hospital wards and although patients in some wards were referred to as ‘ guests , ’ this did not prevent them from being confined by locked doors . |
| 2 | ( Note that LIFESPAN would allow other users , with the appropriate access rights , to read the modules out , but would prevent them from being re-entered . ) |
| 3 | ‘ We know for a fact that bombs had been prepared in the past for Portadown but the security presence in the area prevented them from being used here . |
| 4 | The lights fixed to the roof rack came on , but paper cones prevented them from being visible from the shore line . |
| 5 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 6 | Business people can argue that the ‘ realities ’ of the new competitive marketplace prevent them from being burdened again with expensive labour contracts , health and safety regulations and pollution controls . |
| 7 | They are to investigate crimes , prevent them from being carried out , discover the guilty parties and take any further steps necessary to uphold the law . |
| 8 | The charge against such a move is that it will pay unemployment benefit to claimants , some of whose household income already prevents them from being poor . |
| 9 | Where the proceedings are in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) , it is a defence under s.94(4) to prove , on a balance of probabilities , ( the burden being on the defendant ) that the accumulation or deposit was necessary for the effectual carrying on of a business or manufacture , was not kept longer than necessary , and that best practicable means were used to prevent them from being prejudicial to health or a nuisance . |
| 10 | The local managers of cattle stealing operations exchanged purloined cattle to prevent them from being identified . |
| 11 | Even during the period of the " phoney war " he had fantasies of the house being bombed , and in June 1940 he asked Herbert Read to store in the country some of his books and clothes in order to prevent them from being destroyed in an air-raid.When on 7 September the " blitz " against London did begin , he decided that he no longer wished to stay in the capital . |
| 12 | It was the custom for various floats with tableaux to be wheeled in at midnight , and on this occasion , in an attempt to prevent them from being broken up , the organisers employed large numbers of rugger blues , dressed in white flannels and T-shirts , to act as stewards . |
| 13 | Manifest dreams are the outcome of a process which allows the expression of these thoughts , preserving sleep by preventing them from being overtly explicit . |