Example sentences of "to prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 Place the apples , cloves , sugar and lemon juice in a pan with just enough water to prevent them from sticking . |
| 2 | Though these courts were in no sense treated as subordinate by the King 's Courts , the latter would issue prohibitions to prevent them from dealing with matters that did not concern them . |
| 3 | These are no longer needed and are best killed to prevent them from spreading to the food cupboard , so drop them into the methylated spirits jar . |
| 4 | Then , ‘ Instead of struggling in vain to prevent them from reaching my consciousness , I stepped back , as it were , and let thoughts and feelings come and go . |
| 5 | Once the packet is opened , keep the pastry leaves covered with a damp tea towel to prevent them from drying out . |
| 6 | Arrange the sliced pears neatly in the pastry case and sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent them from discolouring . |
| 7 | After this they went on board the several ships in that harbour and struck their yards in order to prevent them from proceeding to sea . |
| 8 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 9 | The then Minister for Home Affairs , Buta Singh , defended the extension against protests from opposition members saying that it was necessary to proceed with the panchayat ( local council ) system as a prelude to assembly elections in the state , and that the continued detention of some Sikh leaders was necessary to prevent them from causing further trouble in the region . |
| 10 | A , a mountaineer , roped to his fellows , cut the rope in order to prevent them from dragging the leader of the party to death . |
| 11 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 12 | Nurses were instructed to prevent them from seeing Earl Spencer as he lay helpless in his private room . |
| 13 | ‘ All partners are technically self-employed but in order to prevent them from getting into a frightful mess we deduct a percentage from their drawings , so there is something put aside for tax . |
| 14 | I 'm still doing sex education at schools and look like it 's changing a lot cos there 's a lot more to do there , a lot more emphasis on Aids , that 's why they 've got to ki , teach kids in primary school , we 've got to prevent them from getting a disease . |
| 15 | Injunctions were issued against The Observer and The Guardian newspapers to prevent them from publishing extracts from Peter Wright 's book and the Court of Appeal , overruling the judge at first instance , held that although publication by The Independent newspaper and others could not be a breach of those injunctions nevertheless , since they knew of their issue , they could be guilty of contempt of court if their publication interfered with the course of justice . |
| 16 | If you really can only go shopping once a week , you will have to store all you fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator or somewhere cool to prevent them from spoiling . |
| 17 | Overcast ( oversewing ) is used to neaten raw edges to prevent them from fraying ( fig. 16 ) . |
| 18 | There has always been protection to prevent them from working long hours and being exploited and bullied . |
| 19 | I understand his point , but many women have written to me asking us specifically not to prevent them from working on Sundays . |
| 20 | After the fish have spawned , remove the adults to prevent them from turning cannibal and eating the eggs . |
| 21 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 22 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 23 | The RSPCA want Magistrates to toughen up and ban cruel owners for a minimum of 5 years , if not more , to prevent them from harming animals like the unfortunate Max again . |
| 24 | Dorothy alone remained a still centre , and when in January 1795 Wordsworth was left £900 in the will of Raisley Calvert , a young friend and admirer who had died of tuberculosis , there seemed nothing further to prevent them from realizing their hopes of a life together . |
| 25 | If in that situation some consumers might reasonably be expected to rely on the misleading information , the trader commits an offence unless he has taken all reasonable steps to prevent them from doing so . |
| 26 | and your point in this context , it , as I say the context in which I 've asked you to address me , I suppose you would say , erm given the matters are arguable or whatever the test is under those issues , er , nevertheless if you allow the case that 's been put up , erm , either by way of defence or by way of set up or by way of counter claim to impede the collection of funds , erm , then er you are not then you are erm , erm taking a measure which could could , jeopardize the of the objectives of this treaty , er whereas I image you will say , or you might say , I do n't know , erm , provided this does n't impede the collection of central funds erm , in the meantime , if er the defendants wish to pursue their counterclaim to trial then er , there 's nothing to prevent them from doing so |
| 27 | She pleaded with Andrew to curtail their power , but her easy-going husband was unable to prevent them from stabbing his wife in the back . |
| 28 | As I mentioned earlier , they glide round in an arc and it is a hell of a job to prevent them from plunging into the weeds some way along your own bank . |
| 29 | One major source of pesticides in our diet is potatoes , because these are sprayed after harvesting with a pesticide called thiabendazole , to prevent them from going mouldy . |
| 30 | Firstly , cats need an amino-acid called taurine to prevent them from going blind . |