Example sentences of "prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pride will prevent me from receiving God 's forgiveness and mercy , and from transmitting it to others . |
| 2 | Francis added : ‘ The chairman 's main concern is not wanting me to receive a serious injury which might prevent me from managing properly . ’ |
| 3 | I wanted to tell her that I had told Syl I would n't marry him , but I did n't , for I felt that once I had told Lili she would somehow prevent me from recanting and that , freed from Syl , I should be bound even tighter to my mother . |
| 4 | Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite not handing in my theory works and the lack of studying before exams . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a sad death , but it will not prevent me from returning to London tomorrow . ’ |
| 6 | It may be that you think my association with a certain person will prevent me from doing anything about Geoffrey . |
| 7 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ How dare you prevent me from making myself really sick , Matthew ? ’ he taunted . |
| 9 | ‘ They will also prevent me from selling these pieces for a long time to come ’ , he said . |
| 10 | Marx claimed that bureaucrats typically lacked initiative and imagination , though this did not prevent them from trying to expand their powers and privileges . |
| 11 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 12 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 13 | She had always felt insulated from pain with him , as if the condoms served to forever prevent them from getting unhealthily close . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Limitations on the output of the most efficient will prevent them from taking advantage of technology and size , thereby inhibiting further productivity gains . |
| 16 | Another consequence of keeping cats in this restricted way would be that you would prevent them from acting as predators of some anti-social species , e.g. rats and mice . |
| 17 | They first showed that the inhibitor had no effect on the rats ' ability to swim in general , nor , if the animals had already learned the maze by the time it was injected , did it prevent them from swimming it correctly . |
| 18 | Ants , like moths , only produce silk during their larval stage , but this does not prevent them from using it for nest-building . |
| 19 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 20 | Probable misconceptions about a consultant supporter 's role have to be handled , credibility and relevance of one 's own experience need to be established in a non-assertive but authoritative way ; appreciation of the teachers ' professional expertise needs to be conveyed , together with an awareness of the difficulties that can prevent them from exercising it to its fullest extent ; and it needs to be spelt out clearly what such a group would be able to offer and what , together , one may reasonably hope to achieve — one must not raise hopes of cures for all ills . |
| 21 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 22 | Bona fide NVOCC 's would have no objections to this practice , but bad faith NVOCC 's would oppose it because it would prevent them from issuing their own bills on a ‘ freight prepaid ’ basis after they had obtained ‘ freight collect ’ terms from the actual carriers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Instinctively they fear the strength of the emotional ties with their mother , which could prevent them from becoming mature and independent men . |
| 25 | Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive . |
| 26 | But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range . |
| 27 | Remember to check out the services provided by your own local banks — some regulations might prevent them from offering the above range . |
| 28 | It is all about those poor girls who behave as Rose did the other night , and suggests that a decent wage might prevent them from indulging in such conduct . ’ |
| 29 | They refused to sign the bond , arguing that to do so would prevent them from making any public protests . |
| 30 | They may live far from their nearest bureau and the expense or lack of public transport may prevent them from coming . |