Example sentences of "prevented [pers pn] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had inherited his father 's ability , and he was just getting things straight again when he was badly hit by a prolonged series of dock strikes that tied up his ships and prevented them from earning anything . |
| 2 | Confident of winning the ball , Hove brought their full-back into the line , thereby giving them the overlap , but their rather mediocre handling and some excellent shadowing by Godwin prevented them from capitalising on this for much of the half . |
| 3 | The cots were suspended from hooks attached to the roof and further secured in position by chains and springs , known as grips , which prevented them from swinging . |
| 4 | To test whether recognising the land beneath is essential to them in finding the way , opaque contact lenses were fitted to their eyes which prevented them from seeing more than a few yards ahead . |
| 5 | Soviet scholars and journalists could hint in their writings at problems in specific factories or could criticize particular managers or officials , but the censorship prevented them from generalising their observations into a critique of the system . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , this doctrine has become especially important to those who feel as a matter of Marxist science that the proletariat ought by now to have enacted a revolutionary response to the crises which are seen as always present ; and their failure to do so is therefore commonly explained as an aspect of false consciousness , which prevented them from recognizing their proper historical duty . |
| 7 | ( Although failure is relative : the welfare services may have contained inequalities and prevented them from getting worse . ) |
| 8 | So , too , could Motherwell if they continue to create what manager Tommy McLean described as ‘ pretty patterns ’ but lack the finishing touch which prevented them from taking full points from this entertaining encounter at Fir Park . |
| 9 | But on closer examination he was forced to admit even he may have been wrong , and he demanded that the PWL stable looked after its young charges Kylie and Jason and prevented them from destroying their lives . |
| 10 | He conceded that users ' huge investments in mainframe applications prevented them from moving to smaller systems . |
| 11 | This instinctive anti-Americanism was revealed most clearly during the Gulf War , in which the pretence that the Basic Law prevented them from sending troops was a mere figleaf for their initial failure to offer any political support to the American-led campaign ( Genscher remained silent for a week after the fighting began , although he and Kohl tried to make amends later ) and for their inexcusable prevarication about supporting Turkey in the event of an attack by Iraq . |
| 12 | ( 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 . |
| 13 | prevented them from playing Sunday football . |
| 14 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 15 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 16 | Several physiotherapists mentioned that the active nature of the job benefited them physically and a number of people with sensory impairments believed that the nature of the work prevented them from becoming isolated . |
| 17 | The scale of the triumph of 1918 no doubt owed something to Lloyd George , but the fact of Unionist victory did not , for without the pact the party would certainly have won some of the Coalition Liberal seats that it prevented them from attacking . |
| 18 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 19 | The social workers were bound by rules of confidentiality and legal requirements which prevented them from revealing any relevant information . |
| 20 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |
| 21 | Her approaches were unsuccessful since suspicion of her contacts with Jacobite circles might have endangered Georg Ludwig 's position as king of England ; and her children when grown up had political considerations of their own which prevented them from responding positively . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On the following weekend circumstances prevented me from getting out , but my companions made their way to the site on their own . |
| 24 | I did in fact attempt to return your telephone call , but when I rang you were out , and our current panic ( we 're in the throes of mounting our summer exhibition ) prevented me from getting back to you before your letter reached me . |
| 25 | ‘ Poverty prevented me from thinking that all is well under the sun and in history , ’ he wrote in 1958 , the year after he received the Nobel Prize . |
| 26 | I remember , after one lesson , having a sensation of a collar being around my neck which prevented me from turning my head ( similar to the kind people have to wear after painful neck injuries ) . |
| 27 | Thank you for drawing my attention to your proposed exhibition , I did indeed receive your telephone message , but other pressures prevented me from responding to it before you had also handed in your portfolio . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |
| 30 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |