Example sentences of "prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 2 | I interviewed him when he became First Sea Lord and on one or two other occasions , and I always slightly regretted that my commitment to current affairs had prevented me from taking up Associated Rediffusion 's offer to spend two years with him , at home and abroad , researching and scripting the thirteen programmes they were planning on his Life and Times — a task subsequently and admirably performed by John Terraine . |
| 3 | I have always been an outsider ; my epilepsy has prevented me from taking part in many normal pursuits such as drinking or dancing , and this has encouraged me to be an individualist in art . |
| 4 | Natural caution has prevented me from getting anyone into trouble . |
| 5 | The book proved very popular but I was left with a nagging regret that my limitations with a camera had prevented me from portraying the district in colour . |
| 6 | It did n't take much to persuade her to come and nothing would have prevented me from seeing precisely what it was that had turned my schoolfriend into what the Daily Express called ‘ a phenomena ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I think it 's prevented me from retreating into ultraspecialist activities . ’ |
| 8 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 9 | Both Mancetter and Oxfordshire are well inland for convenient harbours , but this may not have prevented them from using water-borne transport . |
| 10 | While large firms have continued to increase their capital/labour ratios thus widening the productivity gap with smaller firms , this has certainly not prevented them from persuading their suppliers to improve the quality of their equipment . |
| 11 | Roger Gernet , hereditary warden of the royal forests of Lancaster , had seized this opportunity to exact from them an ox for winter pasture and a cow for summer pasture , and had prevented them from taking housebote and firebote in the forest . |
| 12 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 13 | What has so far prevented them from becoming assimilated to each other is not only the fact that in the field of psychotherapy , differing theories do not readily and happily intermix , but that each theory tends to take sides ( without this necessarily being apparent ) in the eternal dialogue between youth and age . |
| 14 | The settlers had claimed legal ownership of the houses in October and had made efforts to move in to the Silwan sector at that time , but the police had prevented them from doing so after the Attorney General , Yosef Harish , had recommended that they be barred from the properties on security considerations . |
| 15 | Special ad hoc arrangements should then be made to compensate those partners whose age has prevented them from extracting the maximum benefit from the changes in fiscal legislation . |
| 16 | The needs of the course of justice prevent me from elaborating further now . |
| 17 | These and other caveats prevent me from giving an unqualified recommendation to this new disc . |
| 18 | But my other commitments prevent me from turning up to their committee meetings now so erm I 'm sort of stepping back on to I 'm just on to their mailing list . |
| 19 | Pride will prevent me from receiving God 's forgiveness and mercy , and from transmitting it to others . |
| 20 | Francis added : ‘ The chairman 's main concern is not wanting me to receive a serious injury which might prevent me from managing properly . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite not handing in my theory works and the lack of studying before exams . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a sad death , but it will not prevent me from returning to London tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | It may be that you think my association with a certain person will prevent me from doing anything about Geoffrey . |
| 25 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ How dare you prevent me from making myself really sick , Matthew ? ’ he taunted . |
| 27 | ‘ They will also prevent me from selling these pieces for a long time to come ’ , he said . |
| 28 | Marx claimed that bureaucrats typically lacked initiative and imagination , though this did not prevent them from trying to expand their powers and privileges . |
| 29 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 30 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |