Example sentences of "[noun] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Action at this level aims to avoid the worst effects of chronic family difficulties and to prevent clients from being drawn into increasingly intrusive interventions ( Wharf , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Many highly evolved species protect their fry from being eaten , as the parents are more able to drive away a would-be predator . |
| 3 | Replacing the present legal aid system — which costs the Treasury about £410m a year — with a specific tax would protect public legal services from spending constraints which had prevented legal aid from being extended . |
| 4 | This would remove 90pc of all criminal legal aid from being assessed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is important , as I have said , that all practicable steps be taken to prevent violence from being encouraged across the frontier . |
| 7 | Using this same loophole in The Jokers prevented the brothers from being charged . |
| 8 | The substance inside is probably some form of resin to stop the rattle from being dented too easily . |
| 9 | Paula said : ‘ We almost always manage to save animals from being put down but our resources and funds are being stretched to the limit , the situation is desperate . ’ |
| 10 | David and Catherine shared with us during the evening service on December 29th , and explained how God had led David from being a car mechanic into the mission field in Brazil . |
| 11 | And reciprocally , if memory formation requires the synthesis of proteins for the construction of synapses , then if one could stop the proteins from being synthesized around the time of learning then the memory should not be formed ; an animal trained on a task and prevented from synthesizing proteins should behave as if it has no memory for the task — is amnesic — when it is subsequently asked to perform it . |
| 12 | This suggestion seemed to prevent the second law of thermodynamics from being violated in most situations . |
| 13 | Nor will he necessarily be able to prevent his share of the equity from being diluted even if he is offered pre-emptive rights ; he may not be able to afford to buy more shares but can not prevent the new issue being made unless he has voting control . |
| 14 | She 's mother-of-three Pamela Stephenson , the woman who has made the interesting switch from being outrageous to outraged ; graduating from wicked impersonations of Margaret Thatcher to delivering petitions to the leaderene 's own doorstep . |
| 15 | Unhappy about losing 80 per cent of their profits on Virgin acts , but unwilling to surrender 10–20 per cent , most foreign companies accepted the switch from being licensees to being distributors . |
| 16 | Ring fencing needs to be enshrined in the legislation to prevent the funds from being diverted by regional health authorities or the Government . |
| 17 | In his veto message to Congress Bush reiterated his opposition to abortion and stated that the veto was " important in order to prevent taxpayer funds from being used for research that many Americans find morally repugnant " , but also because of the bill 's " potential for promoting and legitimatizing abortion " . |
| 18 | My nightmare is trying to concentrate on a guest while really wondering at what point I can break off the conversation to same some dish or saucepan from being welded to the oven forever . |
| 19 | The Extraditables subsequently claimed that they had decided to spare her life but had been unable to prevent her murder from being carried out . |
| 20 | Neither man , however , is commenting on the goings on which have turned Mr Lines from being the industry 's darling , he even had his 40-acre Teesport chemicals development blessed by Mrs Thatcher , into the pariah of the market . |
| 21 | Following the safety line up to your guide boat seems to be the best possibility , but only if the line has not been cut on the sharp edges of the ice , or if the boat tender has not had to release the safety line to keep his boat from being capsized or dragged under the iceberg . |
| 22 | The methodological problem arises , it is argued , because all we can observe and gather data from are individuals . |
| 23 | These form today 's big stick : their owners hope that , by possessing the ability to kill tens of millions of people and destroy the fabric of modern industrial society , they will prevent an enemy from being stupid enough to risk all by waging all-out war . |
| 24 | In both books , neither community were prepared to give the outsiders a chance , it 's their obvious ignorance and old ways which prevent their neighbourhood from being a complete one . |
| 25 | The idea here is that you go to a domestic dispute to prevent a crime from being committed … |
| 26 | Different colours and patterns are mixed — without matching — and floral plates , rugs and prints prevent the overall effect from being too harshly geometric . |
| 27 | This gives rise to the possibility that such an investigation could be used by the union as a stalling facility to prevent the applicant from being assisted by the Commissioner . |
| 28 | They also made such one-off comedies as The Green Man ( 1957 ) , in which a vacuum cleaner salesman sets out to prevent a sour-faced captain of industry from being blown up . |
| 29 | How then could the British government act to save the nodule-mining industry from being stillborn ? |
| 30 | If it is only our climate which would prevent an expanded leisure industry from being successful , we should surely look at ways of doing something about it . |