Example sentences of "prevent it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sludge — another corrosion by-product — can block the inlet or outlet to the radiator and prevent it from heating up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Part of the reasoning behind the move was the search for an effective policy to contain the violence within Ireland and prevent it from spreading to Britain . |
| 5 | These valves also serve to trap any water which may accidentally pass the blowhole , and thus prevent it from entering the lungs , which would cause choking or drowning . |
| 6 | Much of it is below sea level and only innumerable drainage ditches prevent it from reverting to its natural state . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 9 | Two reasons prevent it from continuing to provide this function . |
| 10 | The wetness of the rags does not accomplish much but the wood gets heated and the rags may insulate the hot wood and prevent it from cooling too quickly . |
| 11 | The Tunisian government confirmed on Sept. 11 that , while it stood by the unanimous March 1990 Arab League decision to transfer the headquarters to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] , the move to speed up the transfer " could hamper this body and prevent it from shouldering its responsibility " . |
| 12 | On the global scale , the oceans that cover almost 70 per cent of the world prevent it from becoming intolerably hot by day , and freezing cold by night . |
| 13 | If private property is to be legitimate within the framework of a liberal society it is also necessary to show that there are constraints which prevent it from becoming a source of power which threatens the liberty of the individual or rivals the power of the state . |
| 14 | This was the 316th year of the society , but events such as wars with Napoleon , ‘ Kaiser Bill ’ and Hitler have occasionally prevented it from taking place . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the Commission 's disquiet has not prevented it from agreeing the designation . |
| 16 | A Constituent Assembly was elected in May 1990 but the military authorities have effectively prevented it from convening . |
| 17 | Formulations of definitive tests are always dangerous , but it seems to me that , without claiming to expound an exhaustive guide , the following provides a satisfactory working test for whether , in any given case , a covenant touches and concerns the land : ( 1 ) the covenant benefits only the reversioner for the time being , and if separated from the reversion ceases to be of benefit to the covenantee ; ( 2 ) the covenant affects the nature , quality , mode of user or value of the land of the reversioner ; ( 3 ) the covenant is not expressed to be personal ( that is to say neither being given only to a specific reversioner nor in respect of the obligations only of a specific tenant ) ; ( 4 ) the fact that a covenant is to pay a sum of money will not prevent it from touching and concerning the land so long as the three foregoing conditions are satisfied and the covenant is connected with something to be done on , or to in relation to the land . |
| 18 | But this did not prevent it from acting as an effective agency of government . |
| 19 | Acid rose in her throat and , even though she knew her anger was , in truth , directed at Marianne , she could n't prevent it from spilling into her words . |
| 20 | This does not prevent it from functioning , at the same time , as a vehicle for social or cultural criticism . |
| 21 | This will prevent it from getting caught up . |
| 22 | Indeed , the enormous catalogue — whose evident production problems will not prevent it from becoming an oeuvre de base — is the reverse of chauvinistic , with French scholars distinctly under-represented . |
| 23 | If it were kept isolated during the critical period nothing would prevent it from becoming an affectionless psychopath for the remainder of its life . |
| 24 | Could you possibly tell me what this was , what caused it and how I can prevent it from happening again ? |
| 25 | How do you prevent it from happening again ? |
| 26 | The bumps and marks on the this goldfish would prevent it from winning any show prizes — but even a humble fantail deserves the best conditions . |
| 27 | Normally Rory despised sarcasm , but right now she could n't prevent it from creeping into her voice . |
| 28 | The name seemed to slip out accidentally , and before Doreen could prevent it from floating into the room . |
| 29 | So the rise in product wages was both the clearest expression of tightening labour markets and the mechanism which prevented it from inhibiting accumulation . |
| 30 | Its evocation of an idealized pre-war era and its commitment to anti-semitism prevented it from joining forces with other maverick Conservative press barons like Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |