Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] from [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such characteristics , in effect , either prevent social relations from being established or , whenever manifested through behaviour , they cut them off . |
| 2 | What should we do to help re-build the frail economy , prevent old scores from being settled in ways which will lead to even further insecurity . |
| 3 | That need for compromise arose from a feature shared by much of the Greco-Roman world : ancient states , being reliant on agriculture , faced a permanent struggle to prevent civic assemblies from being dominated by the urban population ; Rome solved this by eventually allowing dual citizenship — that is , citizenship both of Rome and of the home community whose constitution would be modelled , in a municipal way , on that of often faraway Rome . |
| 4 | LABOUR MP Norman Hogg plans to introduce a bill that will end the 200-year ban preventing vicars , Catholic priests and Scottish ministers from being elected to the House of Commons . |
| 5 | For example , refractive errors ( those defects in the shape of the eye that prevent light rays from being brought sharply on to the retina in a single focus and which include short-sightedness , long-sightedness and astigmatism can often be at least partially corrected by the provision of appropriate lenses in eyeglasses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It also had to keep the numbers of capped authorities to manageable proportions to prevent civil servants from being overloaded by the administrative burden of determining — and redetermining in the event of appeal — rate levels under the selective scheme . |
| 8 | This did not , however , stop the question of political marginality and the need to reform existing policies from being raised at all , as can be seen subsequently by the attempts after 1981 to introduce both locally and nationally measures which were meant to address some of the grievances of the rioters and to ensure that further disturbances did not occur . |
| 9 | Or would African governments control the press and so prevent alternative voices from being heard ? |
| 10 | But if you have any unhappy memories from being forced into team sports and cross-country runs as a school child do n't try and repeat them — try something new ! |
| 11 | Officers were allowed to take part in board discussions , and they saw one of their main roles as being to help prevent negative decisions from being taken for trivial reasons . |
| 12 | However , when some of the children start to communicate with the familiar but unknown people , Michael Colpan 's dad on the campus lets out a little of the secret , in order to save these poor children from being used as national weapons , since they had the power to make a harmless teddy bear savagely attack a human and kill it . |
| 13 | I do not think she derived any great benefits from being ennobled , but obviously it was something she liked and sought and Harold Wilson could see little or no reason for not obliging her . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone , ’ she announced , her voice suddenly strong again , ‘ someone has to try to prevent poor women from being beaten by great strong brutes . ’ |
| 15 | The comparatively peaceful existence of Fromebridge was but a few short years from being shattered , for in 1760 the mill came into the hands of Joseph Fairthorne and his industrious partners , William and John Purnell . |
| 16 | The poor weather , with many fog patches restricting visibility to less than two miles , prevented the warships and their respective convoys from being discovered , although another ‘ snooper ’ , this time a Ju88 from 1(F)/121 was intercepted by a pair of Fulmars from ‘ Formidable 's ’ 806 Squadron flown by Lts . |
| 17 | Intensive research has identified several ways in which interferon-treated cells can interfere with the viral life-cycle , particularly by preventing the genetic information stored in the viral genes from being converted into viral proteins ( New Scientist , 10 March 1983 , p 642 ) . |
| 18 | The formation of such complexes might prevent the viral genes from being replicated , or from being used to direct the manufacture of viral proteins . |
| 19 | For these not only reveal something about the nature of criminal law and hence crime itself , but also how corporations are able to channel some of their resources into a concerted attempt to prevent their socially injurious behaviours from being criminalized . |
| 20 | They provide a basis for evaluating shorter-term budgets and prevent long-term aims from being forced aside by short-term operational needs . |
| 21 | The CNAA was acting as a deterrent by preventing difficult decisions from being taken internally . |
| 22 | Further , failure to enter a particular module because , for example , it is not higher than the latest in LIFESPAN will not prevent eligible modules from being entered . |
| 23 | There is no economic reason why they should be divested unless it can be shown that they would have synergistic benefits from being combined with SBUs of a different type from those possessed by the group that currently owns them . |
| 24 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 25 | The Hatch Act was passed in 1939 to prevent federal workers from being coerced into helping with the re-election campaign of President Franklin D. Roosevelt . |
| 26 | Representatives from state enterprise unions defied a ban on political gatherings and convened in Bangkok on March 21 to protest at an NPKA plan to amend the Labour Relations Act and dissolve all 61 state enterprise unions and prevent new ones from being formed . |
| 27 | ( Did they mean to imply that ‘ courage ’ would have saved the other women from being raped ? ) |
| 28 | Now in the UK we have laws which prevent most wild birds from being taken and put in a cage . |
| 29 | A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted . |
| 30 | There are also indications that the current criminal investigation into Barlow Clowes may prevent the most sensitive parts from being released . |