Example sentences of "prevented [pers pn] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | The lights fixed to the roof rack came on , but paper cones prevented them from being visible from the shore line . |
| 3 | He also exhibited a flirtatiousness aimed at everyone and everything , ‘ a desire to charm [ which ] prevented him from being sufficiently implacable ’ ( pp. 152 — 3 ) . |
| 4 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 5 | There was a a s an Indian student came to and he was a prospective Labour candidate , but the Labour Party prevented him from being a candidate er because er his main theme in life was to try and get India free from you know the British Empire . |
| 6 | The British traveller and journalist , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace , believed Alexander " had inherited from his father a strong dislike to sentimentalism and rhetoric of all kinds " and that " This dislike , joined to a goodly portion of sober common-sense , a limited confidence in his own judgment , and a consciousness of enormous responsibility , prevented him from being carried away by the prevailing excitement " with which his reign began . |
| 7 | The opera was La finta semplice , but growing opposition to the project within the musical establishment ultimately prevented it from being performed . |
| 8 | But then , as I have argued earlier , there was nothing in the basic assumptions of classicism that necessarily prevented it from being equally critical . |