Example sentences of "[verb] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He 's very annoyed because his lack of education has prevented him from becoming a candidate for Swansea West in the general election . |
| 3 | He still does n't know the exact reason for the problem that kept him in care for a week — more tests are planned at the end of next month — and which has prevented him from going back to Stamford Bridge , where his coaching has transformed the fortunes of London 's Cinderella club . |
| 4 | Natural caution has prevented me from getting anyone into trouble . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We must eliminate any previous conditioning that has prevented us from winning in the past . |
| 7 | Hence my acceptance that yesterday I did not know prevents me from claiming knowledge today . |
| 8 | ‘ His mother tried to prevent him from having access to the phone but even that did n't stop him . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me why you tried to prevent me from finding out that I was a Corosini . ’ |
| 10 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 11 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 12 | They are all cold-pressed virgin oils and should be kept in the dark and refrigerated after opening to prevent them from becoming rancid . |
| 13 | Scuffles ensued when the demonstrators tried to break through a police cordon preventing them from marching to the tomb of the unknown soldier . |
| 14 | Mainly , the first part provides examples of potential problems occurring in everyday living and what might be done to prevent them from becoming actual problems . |
| 15 | The tears on Cullam 's cheeks awoke in him a nausea and a rage so fierce that it was all he could do to prevent himself from striking him . |
| 16 | She was off-balance — nothing she could do to prevent herself from turning towards him as his grip pulled her in . |
| 17 | Is there anything I can do to prevent it without covering up completely ? |
| 18 | Nurses were instructed to prevent them from seeing Earl Spencer as he lay helpless in his private room . |
| 19 | The chair or commode has to be correctly positioned , for instance , and firmly secured to prevent it from slipping away as the patient is moved . |
| 20 | The mains inlet cable must be secured to prevent it from pulling out , and a cable gland or ‘ P ’ clip can be used as normal . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ This situation has meant me not being able to get the sort of access to my daughter I want because the fact that the interdict is still in place has been used to prevent me from getting increased access . ’ |
| 23 | Both Mancetter and Oxfordshire are well inland for convenient harbours , but this may not have prevented them from using water-borne transport . |
| 24 | If after the plaintiff has been harmed his damages are increased by his failure to have proper medical attention , this failure by him to mitigate his damage would have prevented him from recovering that portion of his loss which is attributable to his omission , and it is doubtful whether section 13(6) of the 1965 Act has a different effect . |
| 25 | The onus of proving that sufficient disclosure was made rests on the firm and it is not a defence to show that a legal or financial impediment on the part of the customer would have prevented him from proceeding with the relevant transaction , or that disclosure would not have affected the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed . |
| 26 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 27 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 28 | Even a slight awareness of A. S. Neill 's compassionate philosophy would have prevented him from making the inept link with the Nazis and racism . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |