Example sentences of "to prevent [adj] [noun pl] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief functions of the short time-limit under Ord. 53 are to prevent public programmes from being unduly held up by litigation challenging the legality of such programmes ; and to prevent steps already taken in execution of challenged decisions having to be reversed long after the decision was acted upon . |
| 2 | That need for compromise arose from a feature shared by much of the Greco-Roman world : ancient states , being reliant on agriculture , faced a permanent struggle to prevent civic assemblies from being dominated by the urban population ; Rome solved this by eventually allowing dual citizenship — that is , citizenship both of Rome and of the home community whose constitution would be modelled , in a municipal way , on that of often faraway Rome . |
| 3 | It also had to keep the numbers of capped authorities to manageable proportions to prevent civil servants from being overloaded by the administrative burden of determining — and redetermining in the event of appeal — rate levels under the selective scheme . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone , ’ she announced , her voice suddenly strong again , ‘ someone has to try to prevent poor women from being beaten by great strong brutes . ’ |
| 5 | The Hatch Act was passed in 1939 to prevent federal workers from being coerced into helping with the re-election campaign of President Franklin D. Roosevelt . |
| 6 | A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted . |