Example sentences of "[noun] from [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Action at this level aims to avoid the worst effects of chronic family difficulties and to prevent clients from being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions ( Wharf , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Many highly evolved species protect their fry from being eaten , as the parents are more able to drive away a would-be predator . |
| 3 | This would remove 90pc of all criminal legal aid from being assessed . |
| 4 | Replacing the present legal aid system — which costs the Treasury about £410m a year — with a specific tax would protect public legal services from spending constraints which had prevented legal aid from being extended . |
| 5 | It is important , as I have said , that all practicable steps be taken to prevent violence from being encouraged across the frontier . |
| 6 | Using this same loophole in The Jokers prevented the brothers from being charged . |
| 7 | The substance inside is probably some form of resin to stop the rattle from being dented too easily . |
| 8 | Paula said : ‘ We almost always manage to save animals from being put down but our resources and funds are being stretched to the limit , the situation is desperate . ’ |
| 9 | And reciprocally , if memory formation requires the synthesis of proteins for the construction of synapses , then if one could stop the proteins from being synthesized around the time of learning then the memory should not be formed ; an animal trained on a task and prevented from synthesizing proteins should behave as if it has no memory for the task — is amnesic — when it is subsequently asked to perform it . |
| 10 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 11 | Nor will he necessarily be able to prevent his share of the equity from being diluted even if he is offered pre-emptive rights ; he may not be able to afford to buy more shares but can not prevent the new issue being made unless he has voting control . |
| 12 | Ring fencing needs to be enshrined in the legislation to prevent the funds from being diverted by regional health authorities or the Government . |
| 13 | In his veto message to Congress Bush reiterated his opposition to abortion and stated that the veto was " important in order to prevent taxpayer funds from being used for research that many Americans find morally repugnant " , but also because of the bill 's " potential for promoting and legitimatizing abortion " . |
| 14 | My nightmare is trying to concentrate on a guest while really wondering at what point I can break off the conversation to same some dish or saucepan from being welded to the oven forever . |
| 15 | The Extraditables subsequently claimed that they had decided to spare her life but had been unable to prevent her murder from being carried out . |
| 16 | Following the safety line up to your guide boat seems to be the best possibility , but only if the line has not been cut on the sharp edges of the ice , or if the boat tender has not had to release the safety line to keep his boat from being capsized or dragged under the iceberg . |
| 17 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 18 | This gives rise to the possibility that such an investigation could be used by the union as a stalling facility to prevent the applicant from being assisted by the Commissioner . |
| 19 | They also made such one-off comedies as The Green Man ( 1957 ) , in which a vacuum cleaner salesman sets out to prevent a sour-faced captain of industry from being blown up . |
| 20 | Robyn stretched her arms high above her head , releasing some of the tension in her aching shoulders from being hunched over her drawing-board for so long . |
| 21 | This surplus is the effect of the radical alterity of the other , whether as ‘ face ’ or as death , which prevents the totality from being constituted as such . |
| 22 | Or would African governments control the press and so prevent alternative voices from being heard ? |
| 23 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 24 | He also tried to prevent the new grammar schools from being reserved for the sons of the gentry . |
| 25 | And as well as the injury caused by hooking , they suffer distress from being hauled out of the water and handled . |
| 26 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 27 | Only the threat of revolution and the defeat of Germany prevented the plan from being put into action , but it was a plan that was to surface again under the Nazis . |
| 28 | These latter included screens behind which they could be hidden ; heavy socks and mocassins to prevent feet from being recognised if seen below the screen ; and a ‘ Donald Duck squawk box ’ instrument which distorted an individual 's voice so that it could not be recognised . |
| 29 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 30 | However , the housekeeper was wonderfully organised , and her jovial personality made the kitchen buzz with chatter and laughter which in no way stopped the work from being done . |