Example sentences of "prevent [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rourke v Barton [ 1982 ] CLY 793 the plaintiff 's general damages took into account the fact that she had been prevented from nursing her terminally ill husband . |
| 2 | The plaintiff was in any case prevented from bringing an action by the statutory provision , which is not limited to a bare right of passage and is not lost by the taking of a photograph . |
| 3 | It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands . |
| 4 | , The Scottish Lands Tribunal recently awarded £560,000 to ScotRail chairman John Cameron , who was prevented from planting Glen Lochay , the last forest-free glen in Perthshire , with conifers , An attempt by the Crown Estate to buy 77,000 acres of Scottish wilderness containing the four highest mountains in Britain and several endangered species has failed . |
| 5 | Issues facing the new chairman include the payment of compensation to Scottish landowners who have been prevented from planting conifers over large areas designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) . |
| 6 | I shall assume that the zoological species Homo sapiens is indeed a unity in the sense that in the hypothetical absence of all cultural restraints interbreeding between the members of any randomly selected human population of randomly selected individuals would be random , just as it would be in a randomly selected pack of mongrel dogs provided always that particular individual dogs were prevented from asserting dominance over their neighbours . |
| 7 | The principle is commonly known as proprietary estoppel , and since the effect of it is that B is prevented from asserting his strict legal rights it has something in common with estoppel . |
| 8 | The other half of this group ( about a quarter of the entire sample ) either rejected the Authority 's recommendations entirely or claimed that although they agreed with them in principle they were prevented from implementing them by unsuitable classroom conditions or other school circumstances . |
| 9 | This has caused some concern as peaceful demonstrators may be prevented from marching because of the threat posed by a potentially disruptive counter-demonstration . |
| 10 | Similarly , partners are prevented from participating in a competing business . |
| 11 | Often in life we are prevented from realising our true potential because we feel restricted , or are harbouring some feelings that we would love to share . |
| 12 | A purchase notice is not intended to apply in a case in which an owner is simply prevented from realising the full potential value of his land . |
| 13 | Mystics can not be prevented from contemplation any more than a poet can be prevented from writing poetry . |
| 14 | The idea , too , that ‘ people did n't think like that then ’ is significant ; we do not know , of course , how many people at a certain point in a history were ( for example ) feminists , who were prevented from writing about their views , or whose writings have been forgotten or lost . |
| 15 | if the driver is prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond his control or it is necessary for him to stop in order to avoid an accident- or |
| 16 | In Kosovo , which like Vojvodina was officially administered as an autonomous province within Serbia , and where elections to a 130-member " constituent Republican Assembly " on May 24 [ see p. 38919 ] had been declared illegal by the Serbian authorities , the assembly was prevented from proceeding because on June 23 Serbian authorities surrounded the building and arrested several deputies . |
| 17 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 18 | Secondly , pathogens already in food can be prevented from multiplying by adequate refrigeration of perishable foods and avoiding delay between preparation and serving of food . |
| 19 | Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it . |
| 20 | The backlog of homeowners prevented from moving by the recession in the housing market has increased , according to a survey today . |
| 21 | The imposition of a curriculum from above will not mean , if assurance given by politicians is to be believed , that teachers will be prevented from delivering it in the way they think most appropriate . |
| 22 | Push slivers of Flora margarine under the skin so that the flesh is prevented from drying out as it cooks . |
| 23 | How could the eggs be prevented from drying out and how could tadpoles develop out of water ? |
| 24 | If it is prevented from penetrating , the glue will adhere only to the damaged edges of the tubes which will break away as soon as a load comes on . |
| 25 | In the case of ‘ case-hardened ’ plywood the edges of the tubes are bent over and turned inwards by the hot plattens of the press which makes the plywood , so that the glue is prevented from penetrating and the joint has no strength ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 26 | It was further revealed that after their arrest the Clarkes had been prevented from seeing a lawyer for two days . |
| 27 | What are they prevented from seeing ? |
| 28 | Einstein was unable to observe relativity , and was prevented from seeing the effects of travelling at the speed of light by the irritatingly inconvenient circumstance of its impossibility . |
| 29 | Because the steam is generated in a separate tank and then passed at pressure through a pipe onto the iron 's soleplate , drips , leaks , calcium and other nasties are prevented from staining your clothes and the life of the iron is prolonged . |
| 30 | Thus the day-to-day experiences of disabled people can be characterised as involving a unique tension which , at one level , involves the passive experience of being prevented from controlling one 's own life , and at the other , actively struggling to overturn this situation . |