Example sentences of "prevent we [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir John , perhaps rightly , thought that this was not our brief , and that the complexities of this problem would prevent us from submitting our Report on time . |
| 2 | It does prevent us from daring to say that a subject becomes part of education because you teach it in a school , or at a CAT or in a university . |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that our friends and allies round the world who may be faced with potentially aggressive neighbours are entitled to look to us for support in arms sales , for example , of the Challenger tank which is made in Leeds , and that nothing proposed on restricting arms sales generally in the interests of world peace will prevent us from supporting our allies in circumstances where that is necessary ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The presence of may prevent us from drawing such a conclusion . |
| 6 | That , however , does not prevent us from drawing particular , limited conclusions from such ‘ isolation ’ experiments . |
| 7 | It is the emotional and dynamic tug of a story which must prevent us from reading in too literal a spirit . |
| 8 | It does prevent us from assuming that students are being educated because they are at a university , irrespective of what their studies are . |
| 9 | Games such as crosswords , mazes , find the hidden word , etc. , can help prevent us from getting bored and allowing our thoughts to wander . |
| 10 | ‘ We want a pay deal now to solve all our problems and a formula which would prevent us from taking action in future , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 11 | ‘ We want a pay deal now to solve all our problems and a formula which would prevent us from taking action in future , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 12 | ‘ We want a pay deal now to solve all our problems and a formula which would prevent us from taking action in future . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We want a pay deal now to solve all our problems and a formula which would prevent us from taking action in future . ’ |
| 14 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 15 | By contrast the white hole originates in a space-time singularity and the horizon does not prevent us from viewing this strange event . |
| 16 | It is our values and not our limited means which prevent us from recognizing that our society possesses adequate resources for the task in hand . |
| 17 | The course content includes : exploring fantasy , sexual response , body image , and a look at some of the underlying feelings which prevent us from reaching our sexual potential . |
| 18 | I consider that I B M strives to be a good employer and that it 's long established belief in respect for the individual has shaped our personal policies to reflect these needs within our community , and for example , our equal opportunity principles prevent us from considering race , colour or sex , when offering someone employment or promotion . |
| 19 | It does n't , but we were n't going to let our opposition to the territorial claim prevent us from talking . ’ |
| 20 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 21 | What in our political and cultural traditions prevent us from having a ‘ pro-people ’ health service — and society for that matter ? |
| 22 | At any rate such verses prevent us from supposing that only with modernism could fruitful contact with Virgil be resumed , or that late-Victorian Virgilianism was the perquisite of Alfred Lord Tennyson . |
| 23 | Uniformity of policy throughout Europe would have prevented us from building up the strength of the City of London . |
| 24 | We must eliminate any previous conditioning that has prevented us from winning in the past . |
| 25 | The Devil was an invention , he claimed , that prevented us from taking responsibility for our own destiny . |
| 26 | The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be . |
| 27 | From my point of view , we had originally hoped to progress this proposal just over a year ago when spare money became available , but unfortunately , the bureaucratic process and conservatism of the people involved prevented us from doing this in time . |
| 28 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 29 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 30 | 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 ! |