Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] prevented [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 2 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |
| 3 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 4 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 5 | ( Although failure is relative : the welfare services may have contained inequalities and prevented them from getting worse . ) |