Example sentences of "[adv] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive . |
| 2 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 3 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 4 | In other words , controlling as he did the nominations to all learned appointments in whichever of the areas he was then kazasker , he would urge young scholars to enter the relative dead end of the career of kasabat kadi and thereby prevent them from passing up through the ranks of medreses to become candidates for mevleviyets and thus rivals to his own position . |
| 5 | She had always felt insulated from pain with him , as if the condoms served to forever prevent them from getting unhealthily close . |
| 6 | It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces . |
| 7 | Fgf-4 RNA is localized to the posterior half of the AER , and the affinity of FGF-4 protein for extracellular matrix components presumably prevents it from diffusing very far from the cells that secrete it . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the weather conditions often prevent you from learning gradually , unlike a ski slope where you can choose the degree of difficulty of each individual run . |
| 9 | Some seem to be able to cause their bodies to cure or to prevent certain diseases and even prevent themselves from acquiring genetically inherited ones . |
| 10 | This forces upon us a breadth of interest and concern which readily prevents us from becoming too absorbed in the affairs of our own small island . |
| 11 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 12 | The powerful aggregates industry is already leaning on him hard to prevent him from doing so . |
| 13 | On the other hand , similar statements of mine have never prevented you from writing back in the past . |