Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's preventing you from being happy ? ’ |
| 2 | I wanted to save you from being damned for all eternity . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to write , but when you study English literature it paralyses you from being a creative writer , because what you read is so wonderful all the time , you feel you ca n't possibly pit yourself against them and try yourself . ’ |
| 4 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 5 | Nothing would stop me from being there . |
| 6 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 7 | But I was surprised by their looks , as they came through the airlock — enough to keep me from being puzzled , then , about how they had crossed from their pod to my ship without space suits . |
| 8 | ‘ It might save me from being shoved through the door like you . ’ |
| 9 | ( This precludes them from being irreligious communists . ) |
| 10 | It 's asking us to save them from being depicted in overexposed snaps , and from being constantly pointed at by male senior citizens . |
| 11 | Some nymphs have specially shaped heads and legs , so that when facing the current , they are pushed against stones into which they fit , and which save them from being washed away — certainly a case of going with the elements ! |
| 12 | Where the proceedings are in respect of a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) ( c ) , it is a defence under s.94(4) to prove , on a balance of probabilities , ( the burden being on the defendant ) that the accumulation or deposit was necessary for the effectual carrying on of a business or manufacture , was not kept longer than necessary , and that best practicable means were used to prevent them from being prejudicial to health or a nuisance . |
| 13 | The local managers of cattle stealing operations exchanged purloined cattle to prevent them from being identified . |
| 14 | Only the fact that these strong fibres are generally quite small prevents the operation of breaking them from being a dangerous one . |
| 15 | ( The National Guard had been called out within hours of the looting yesterday afternoon , but bureaucratic muddles — bullets had n't arrived — had kept them from being deployed . ) |
| 16 | For Marx is trying to develop a theory which will apply universally , and the fact ( if it is a fact ) that individuals who live in different societies do not share constant properties is enough to disqualify them from being the rock on which social explanations are founded . |
| 17 | They also require continuing support in those inter-professional consultation skills which can preserve them from being left ‘ stranded , resented and counter-productively ( deemed to be ) bearers of answers to problems which the rest of the staff could be helped to resolve for themselves ’ ( Sayer 1987 ) . |
| 18 | Their forced accommodation to the existence of a wide range of non-genetic categories saved them from being solely associated with such a negative approach . |
| 19 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 20 | Even during the period of the " phoney war " he had fantasies of the house being bombed , and in June 1940 he asked Herbert Read to store in the country some of his books and clothes in order to prevent them from being destroyed in an air-raid.When on 7 September the " blitz " against London did begin , he decided that he no longer wished to stay in the capital . |
| 21 | Manifest dreams are the outcome of a process which allows the expression of these thoughts , preserving sleep by preventing them from being overtly explicit . |
| 22 | It was the custom for various floats with tableaux to be wheeled in at midnight , and on this occasion , in an attempt to prevent them from being broken up , the organisers employed large numbers of rugger blues , dressed in white flannels and T-shirts , to act as stewards . |
| 23 | The charge against such a move is that it will pay unemployment benefit to claimants , some of whose household income already prevents them from being poor . |
| 24 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 25 | On the other hand , so long as the electoral system appears to give due weight to most parties , the fact that individual votes may often have little effect does not deter them from being cast . |
| 26 | They saw some ‘ family homes ’ which looked like ordinary mental hospital wards and although patients in some wards were referred to as ‘ guests , ’ this did not prevent them from being confined by locked doors . |
| 27 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 28 | Apart from the bike messengers , that was , and these were easy to distinguish because they were young and wiry and bizarrely dressed , and their eyes seemed to have a certain glaze on them from being on a permanent adrenaline high . |
| 29 | Even adding tons of extended RAM to your machine does n't stop them from being created , so one of the better uses of a bit of extra RAM is to create another ‘ hard disk ’ in memory , using the ramdrive program . |
| 30 | Business people can argue that the ‘ realities ’ of the new competitive marketplace prevent them from being burdened again with expensive labour contracts , health and safety regulations and pollution controls . |