Example sentences of "to prevent [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO PREVENT SOMEONE ELSE GETTING IT ? |
| 2 | Children need someone unconditionally and permanently committed to them , and it is difficult to see why a parent who takes no responsibility for a child 's care has a right to prevent someone else from doing so . |
| 3 | ‘ But the truth is that however sympathetic or kind one is , one ca n't ever do anything to prevent someone else hurting . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Similar processes , reflecting the ability of corporations to prevent their socially and economically injurious behaviour being criminalized operate also in Britain . |
| 6 | This is a slightly awkward combination which takes a bit of getting used to , but it 's a good way to prevent you accidentally or absent-mindedly starting the machine . |
| 7 | He was sealed in there to prevent him ever telling of Rassilon 's great mistake . |
| 8 | But paradoxically the public right-to-know argument , which may be a pure power argument for involvement in decision making or an argument just to know what has been decided ( and why ) , may conflict fundamentally with the individual right to know argument which may say , ‘ I have a right to know information and decisions about me and to prevent anyone else from knowing ’ — the confidentiality argument ( or one of them ) . |
| 9 | Each users entries are kept separate from the others and can be password protected to prevent anyone else from peeking . |
| 10 | Secondly , there are offences intended to prevent anyone wrongly claiming to have supplied goods to the Queen ( or to anyone else ) or wrongly claiming royal approval , e.g. by displaying an emblem resembling that of the Queen 's Award to Industry . |
| 11 | We need to modify the way chickens are kept so that this is something which at least is extremely rare ; we should try to prevent it completely . |
| 12 | The production is cleverly controlled by Gerardine McDermottroe 's understated direction , and the tone and pace of the 40 minute monologue are skilfully animated to prevent it ever becoming tedious … the poetic torrent of Frank McGuinness ' text comes to life with a terrifying and portentous symbolism for a rivetting piece of drama . |