Example sentences of "prevent they [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special ad hoc arrangements should then be made to compensate those partners whose age has prevented them from extracting the maximum benefit from the changes in fiscal legislation . |
| 2 | Remember to check out the services provided by your own local banks — some regulations might prevent them from offering the above range . |
| 3 | This is the argument that women 's domestic responsibilities get in the way of their paid work , and prevent them from taking the opportunities for higher-paid work . |
| 4 | Visually handicapped pupils are likely to need adaptations to the educational materials that are in the ordinary classroom if they have severe sight defects that prevent them from discriminating the size of print being used by the class . |
| 5 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 6 | In addition to the cultural blocks there is a spiritual blindness in the hearts and minds of people which prevents them from hearing the Good News . |
| 7 | All bad spirits travel in straight lines from the south , and that mountain prevents them from entering the Imperial City . " |
| 8 | A , a mountaineer , roped to his fellows , cut the rope in order to prevent them from dragging the leader of the party to death . |
| 9 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 10 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 11 | The compromise between the professionally interested parties , the outsiders and the ‘ Barons ’ , was arrived at by , on the one hand , removing the numerical ceiling which operated previously , to the detriment of the large firms , but also , by placing a limitation on these same firms , preventing them from flooding the rota with in experienced staff . |
| 12 | US and British investigators also complained that the West German police had withheld information on the PFLP-GC arrests , preventing them from making the Malta link earlier . |