Example sentences of "prevent [det] [noun pl] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , what The Times was saying was that it knew what the ‘ real ’ stories were and that only dictators prevented such stories from being told . |
| 2 | It was usual to extract some form of guarantee in exchange for party support but the secrecy prevented such undertakings from being enforced . |
| 3 | Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion . |
| 4 | One could either argue that the lack of action required by the subject at the time prevented any memories from being encoded , or that the lack of aspects of the situation which were specific to that particular drive made it extremely difficult to actually retrieve a memory for it . |
| 5 | If the Minister admits that monumental errors were made that allowed those profits to accrue to companies that were almost given the assets of the National Bus Company , he must tell us what will be inserted in the legislation to prevent those errors from being made again . |
| 6 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 7 | Nothing short of absolute impossibility ought to prevent those measures from being taken which will as soon as possible restore the — pre-war productivity of the building industry in new houses . |