Example sentences of "[coord] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | It believes that every vehicle should have a sophisticated exhaust that traps the lead and prevents it from reaching the atmosphere . |
| 32 | The Bertagni fresh pasta from Fine Italian Foods comes in controlled atmosphere packaging which , the company says , retains the texture of the pasta and prevents it from sticking together . |
| 33 | You will probably feel better if you eat little and often , so this helps to maintain your blood sugar level , and prevents you from getting " the munchies ' , especially during the first four weeks of the diet , when you are first restricting your diet . |
| 34 | So when the Wigan colliers threatened in 1792 to throw down the engines , they were seeking both to pressure the mine owner and to prevent him from reworking the pit with " blackleg " labour , also the likely object of Cornish miners who pulled up the ladders in a dispute of 1795 . |
| 35 | Israeli officials have maintained that solitary confinement is necessary to prevent Mordechai Vanunu from other inmates and to prevent him from revealing further classified information , including details of his abduction , which was illegal according to international law . |
| 36 | By denying the existence of administrative law in the face of the structural pressures for the growth in administration , the influence which Dicey 's theory had on political and legal thought served to shield us from the realities and to prevent us from addressing the issues raised by these developments in a constructive fashion . |
| 37 | Regulating what adolescents knew about sex , and preventing them from going to bed with their girlfriends or boyfriends , had become difficult . |
| 38 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 39 | Sheriff Michael Munro imposed bail conditions forbidding Cowans from going within half a mile of the Timex factory at Harrison Road and preventing him from approaching anyone known or believed by him to be member of the new Timex workforce . |
| 40 | Nevertheless , the film deploys sounds and images with intense effect as it explores the inner experience of a little girl closed off from the world , for whom her family is a cage tightened around her and preventing her from communicating with the world . |
| 41 | Hedges also obstruct farm machinery , rob crops of food and water and shade the crop , producing uneven growth and preventing it from drying out at harvest . |
| 42 | The way that most invertebrate and mixed systems are set up , with intricate rockwork and powerful water movement , makes it very difficult to spot uneaten food particles , and the various scavengers are vital in picking this surplus up , and preventing it from decaying and fouling the tank . |
| 43 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 44 | Roffman and Purdy have quite rightly stressed that Vidor 's traditional populism gave him sympathy for the underdog , but prevented him from moving towards any collectivist political situation . |