Example sentences of "that prevent [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 2 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 3 | Backed by the incessant thud of a drum machine , it 's only these electric rhythms that prevent them from tumbling into disorder . |
| 4 | Visually handicapped pupils are likely to need adaptations to the educational materials that are in the ordinary classroom if they have severe sight defects that prevent them from discriminating the size of print being used by the class . |
| 5 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 6 | The adaptation work should help to overcome or remove any obstacles that prevent you from enjoying the use of your present facilities . |
| 7 | Not to mention the classes of thirty or more , and all the other sources of frustration that prevent you from delivering the service you should , and doing the job as you would like . |
| 8 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 9 | Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid . |
| 10 | Bell Atlantic Corp is asking the US Department of Justice to waive restrictions that prevent it from providing video programming services — it wants to provide the services across the US without regard to local access transport area boundaries of its local territory . |
| 11 | Erm , everything else we 've looked at , there are either statutory problems or other problems that prevent us from charging . |
| 12 | Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods . |
| 13 | There seemed to be a blankness in her that prevented her from going any further ; a momentary spark that said , But wait … and then said nothing more . |
| 14 | Before this experience , several barriers to worship were present that prevented me from entering fully into the presence of the Father and into the inheritance that Paul expresses so movingly in Ephesians 1 . |
| 15 | But , at that stage , the only thing that prevented me from saying , ‘ oh well , I 'll go and find a regular job instead , ’ was that I was aware that this thing existed — racialism — and that whatever happened , getting away from it , getting out of the firing line , would n't help me . |
| 16 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 17 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 18 | As he thought of this he grasped on to it with relief for it seemed to give him a reason to do nothing , though in his heart he knew it was fear , not duty , that prevented him from flying . |
| 19 | He dared not conjecture , but the possibility of that was the only thing that prevented him from abandoning her . |
| 20 | There was a core of hardness to him that prevented him from ever responding to her . |
| 21 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 22 | The Devil was an invention , he claimed , that prevented us from taking responsibility for our own destiny . |
| 23 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 24 | ‘ But there is nothing intrinsically wrong with Diana 's chart , whereas I can look at Charles 's chart and say I think there is something that prevents him from making the throne . |
| 25 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |
| 26 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 27 | So that 's what privatization is about and how do we stop the privatization how do we really represent the members by attacking the legislation that prevents us from acting in a spontaneous manner , which will assist our members in their hour of need . |
| 28 | ‘ And is it that sublime confidence in yourself that prevents you from marrying her ? |
| 29 | A washable fitted carpet is best in the bathroom and well-fitting washable carpet tiles , with a backing material that prevents it from creeping , in the kitchen . |
| 30 | Although many believe coverage of such hotel costs ( along with universal access and comprehensiveness ) is one of the distinguishing features of the Canadian system that prevents it from becoming a US-style two-tiered system , Clemenhagen says the need to maintain the system 's integrity must be balanced by ‘ the need for responsible deficit reduction ’ . |