Example sentences of "prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will Thorne — MP , trade unionist and patriot — declared that the patriotism of West Ham socialists would not prevent them from taking a strong political stance on relief questions ( SE 15 August 14 ) . |
| 2 | There was a warm welcome from the people of Barbados , but their sympathy did not prevent them from preparing a pitch to suit the fast bowlers when the Test took place . |
| 3 | Remember to check out the services provided by your own local banks — some regulations might prevent them from offering the above range . |
| 4 | However , some people believe it can prevent you from taking a more distanced and helpful approach . |
| 5 | Strong abdominal muscles will prevent you from having a ‘ pot belly' . |
| 6 | Mars is in Gemini and in the travel angle of your solar chart adds weight to Jupiter and Venus in Leo and no power on earth can prevent you from following the dictates of your heart . |
| 7 | This is only a warning , and it will not prevent you from updating the SPR . |
| 8 | This is only a warning , and it will not prevent you from updating the SPR . |
| 9 | The return of the proxy form will not prevent you from attending the meeting and voting in person should you wish to do so . |
| 10 | ( As you will see from Section 1.3 , this does not prevent you from distributing the disk storage requirements across any number of disks and directories . ) |
| 11 | The concentration on detail and the speaker 's reaction might prevent you from grasping the speaker 's meaning anyway . |
| 12 | Well , with this mental disease I have , I think of the many other artists suffering mentally and I tell myself that this does not prevent one from exercising the painter 's profession as if nothing was amiss . |
| 13 | FitzAlan could prevent her from seeing the Queen … confine her somewhere in Winchester … |
| 14 | JOHN SMITH , lecturer in the Law Department , warned Marian Jackson at the beginning of her second year that too much time spent with Dram Soc would prevent her from getting a first class degree . |
| 15 | Melody 's delight and incredulity were genuine , but it did not prevent her from taking the food and drink from his hands and bolting it as though she were starving . |
| 16 | Her mother said it was stimulating to be upset , and maybe it was , but that did n't prevent her from preferring the solace of the old wisdom . |
| 17 | But his ex-wife believes he would prevent her from visiting the grave . |
| 18 | Nothing barring a major disaster can prevent her from becoming a main attraction — Barbara Dennerlein is a star in the ascendant . |
| 19 | He underwent a minor operation on his elbow during the summer , but that did n't prevent him from fulfilling a fitness programme with the new season in mind . |
| 20 | In 1929 Nizan 's acquiescence to party discipline did not prevent him from exploring the possibility of working for the party at the edge of the class divide . |
| 21 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 22 | His administrative post did not prevent him from taking an active part in several engagements , including the bloody battle of Chrysler 's Farm . |
| 23 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 24 | This , however , did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries . |
| 25 | But the interesting new question is whether Lynagh 's decision to play the closed Australian season with the Benetton club in Italy will prevent him from becoming the new Wallaby skipper . |
| 26 | But even if the Manchu was curious , his adherence to the code of satori — a system of behaviour which defined what was right and proper for every situation — would prevent him from giving the feeling expression . |
| 27 | It did n't prevent him from running a successful office , despite the lack of support from some staff ’ . |
| 28 | On his return to Trinidad in 1948 , Eric Williams almost immediately got involved in public appearances at which he gave his opinions on historical topics concerning the West Indies and while his work for the Caribbean Commission strictly forbade any political involvement , it did not prevent him from opening a window on the West Indian past . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If it were kept isolated during the critical period nothing would prevent it from becoming an affectionless psychopath for the remainder of its life . |