Example sentences of "[adv] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 2 | Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive . |
| 3 | In that document , there is a very strong reference to the fact that that power should be either restrictive or removed and that there should be a right of appeal against it , which would effectively prevent us from using it . |
| 4 | I wanted to tell her that I had told Syl I would n't marry him , but I did n't , for I felt that once I had told Lili she would somehow prevent me from recanting and that , freed from Syl , I should be bound even tighter to my mother . |
| 5 | She had always felt insulated from pain with him , as if the condoms served to forever prevent them from getting unhealthily close . |
| 6 | The conventions prevented her from heaping any further abuse on Chay Bank , a housing project which she had frequently and loudly denounced , but near which she had never set foot : the precariousness of her own social position would forever prevent her from visiting Fred Bowen , and this yearly ritual meeting on neutral ground was as much as she would ever dare risk . |
| 7 | ‘ They will also prevent me from selling these pieces for a long time to come ’ , he said . |