Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Using this same loophole in The Jokers prevented the brothers from being charged . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ring fencing needs to be enshrined in the legislation to prevent the funds from being diverted by regional health authorities or the Government . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | Robyn stretched her arms high above her head , releasing some of the tension in her aching shoulders from being hunched over her drawing-board for so long . |
| 9 | Or would African governments control the press and so prevent alternative voices from being heard ? |
| 10 | He also tried to prevent the new grammar schools from being reserved for the sons of the gentry . |
| 11 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 12 | These latter included screens behind which they could be hidden ; heavy socks and mocassins to prevent feet from being recognised if seen below the screen ; and a ‘ Donald Duck squawk box ’ instrument which distorted an individual 's voice so that it could not be recognised . |
| 13 | Chapter 5 considers other aspects of the store ; protection of store areas from being inadvertently overwritten , the use of particular store locations for special purposes , means by which the store 's apparent capacity and speed can be increased , and the use of associative and cyclic stores . |
| 14 | In the centre of this grouping was the telephone administration itself ; its exact status varied between countries from being within a central government Department ( as in France ( to being a partly state-owned commercial company ( Italy and Spain ) . |
| 15 | The controversy over the continuing influx of Poles seeking cheaper Czechoslovak goods — and the difficulty of fixing an exchange rate between the koruna and the zloty — prevented visa requirements between the two countries from being lifted until July 1991 . |
| 16 | In Att. -Gen. for New South Wales v. Trethowan ( P.C. , 1932 ) a decision of the Australian Supreme Court to grant a declaration that two Bills passed by the New South Wales State Legislature were invalid and grant an injunction restraining the Bills from being presented to the Governor for assent was upheld . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although only financial control is centralised , IDG reaps some advantages from being a global group . |
| 19 | Some patients seemed to gain psychological advantages from being ill with their neuroses , and were peculiarly difficult to cure . |
| 20 | The powers involved were under Section 52 of the 1971 Town and Country Planning Act : however , subsequent intervention in late 1981 by the Secretary of State for the Environment appears to have prevented planners from being able to specify the nature of occupiers of new housing . |
| 21 | Taphonomy considers post-mortem modifications of the bones in order to make inferences about the modifying agents during the transition of the bones from being parts of living animals to becoming fossils . |
| 22 | Completeness in this context means having most of both proximal and distal ends together with the shaft ; breakage at the epiphyses is not counted , and damage to the greater trochanter of the femur or to part of the distal articulation of the humerus does not disqualify bones from being classified as complete . |
| 23 | In this position they are supported purely by piano hinges and require a separate stay to prevent the hinges from being strained . |
| 24 | Czechoslovakian ecologists are launching a campaign to prevent large areas of national park land in Slovakia 's Tatra mountains from being developed by an American company as a sports and tourism complex . |
| 25 | These are ‘ servery-style ’ with special ‘ stops ’ to prevent the shelves from being pulled out inadvertently . |
| 26 | But this does not prevent other functions from being present , lower down in the hierarchy , in texts in which the poetic function is dominant ; equally , the poetic function may be present in texts which are mainly expressive or referential . |
| 27 | The same year the ATA moved to keep US observers from being allowed to report violations . |
| 28 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 29 | Well I was er Er the school days from were from er eleven to fourteen and er tt of course during that time we had the opportunity to try and pass for grammar . |
| 30 | Trade union organisation provides a very important basis of opposition , preventing any single group of workers from being isolated . |