Example sentences of "[conj] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relevant provisions state that an employee has the right not to have action short of dismissal taken against him ‘ as an individual ’ by his employer to : prevent his belonging to an independent trade union ; or prevent him from taking part in the activities of an independent union ; or compel him to join any trade union . |
| 2 | The [ draft ] FRS therefore requires that the facilities must be committed and that there must be no reasons expected or likely which would either permit the lender to avoid his obligation to provide new borrowings or prevent him from providing them . |
| 3 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 4 | Or prevent you from finding inner peace ? |
| 5 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 6 | Timing is good ; this tends to be particularly noticeable in recordings such as the Keith Jarrett interpretation of Bach 's Goldberg Variations , which has superbly organic style that is pulled this way and that , but which never spoils the music or prevents it from working . |
| 7 | Next she considered the potatoes : in the past she had always cooked them in their skins , but recently it had been suggested that potato skins , if not carcinogenic , were yet harmful to the system , perforating the bowel or preventing it from absorbing the vital vitamins . |
| 8 | He was wound up like a spring , furiously angry , unable to keep still or to prevent himself from fidgeting . |
| 9 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 10 | Backed by the incessant thud of a drum machine , it 's only these electric rhythms that prevent them from tumbling into disorder . |
| 11 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 12 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 13 | Visually handicapped pupils are likely to need adaptations to the educational materials that are in the ordinary classroom if they have severe sight defects that prevent them from discriminating the size of print being used by the class . |
| 14 | Not to mention the classes of thirty or more , and all the other sources of frustration that prevent you from delivering the service you should , and doing the job as you would like . |
| 15 | The adaptation work should help to overcome or remove any obstacles that prevent you from enjoying the use of your present facilities . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her safety-valve , the thing that prevented her from going round the bend , was the fun of devising and dishing out these splendid punishments , and the lovely thing was that they seemed to work , at any rate for short periods . |
| 20 | There seemed to be a blankness in her that prevented her from going any further ; a momentary spark that said , But wait … and then said nothing more . |
| 21 | Before this experience , several barriers to worship were present that prevented me from entering fully into the presence of the Father and into the inheritance that Paul expresses so movingly in Ephesians 1 . |
| 22 | But , at that stage , the only thing that prevented me from saying , ‘ oh well , I 'll go and find a regular job instead , ’ was that I was aware that this thing existed — racialism — and that whatever happened , getting away from it , getting out of the firing line , would n't help me . |
| 23 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 24 | He dared not conjecture , but the possibility of that was the only thing that prevented him from abandoning her . |
| 25 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 26 | But I was very much in love with Isobel and that prevented my from looking too hard at the mess I had created . |
| 27 | The Devil was an invention , he claimed , that prevented us from taking responsibility for our own destiny . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | ‘ But there is nothing intrinsically wrong with Diana 's chart , whereas I can look at Charles 's chart and say I think there is something that prevents him from making the throne . |
| 30 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |