Example sentences of "prevents we [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's what privatization is about and how do we stop the privatization how do we really represent the members by attacking the legislation that prevents us from acting in a spontaneous manner , which will assist our members in their hour of need . |
| 2 | There is , in other words , a double overlap in the ministry of Jesus , which prevents us from assuming that Father , Son and Spirit are three moulds into which the Deity pours himself at different periods in the history of salvation . |
| 3 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 4 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 5 | Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime . |
| 6 | In this book space prevents us from paying more than cursory attention to the whole area of upper-world crime . |
| 7 | Only our deplorable ignorance of Carthaginian and Parthian jokes prevents us from assessing the local reactions to " pergraecari " , a word which Festus explains as " epulis et potationibus inservire " ( p. 235 L. ) . |
| 8 | It is easy to stop squabbles and arguments in the interests of peace and harmony , yet to do so often prevents us from observing significant behaviour which can give the counsellor invaluable insight into how older people think and feel about themselves , other people and their situation . |
| 9 | I realised then how our own personal embarrassment and refusal to face up to our own mortality prevents us from behaving to others in a natural and human way . |
| 10 | This prevents us from supposing that the conditional in question , to speak in the ontologically extravagant way , comes to this : in the possible world where it is raining , but everything else is the same as in this world save that the balcony is wet , the balcony is indeed wet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Maybe that 's why our law prevents us from adopting methods more than are sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 13 | The dualism is deemed disastrous because it prevents us from having a unified conception of the world built around the natural sciences , and because it leaves the relationship between the mental and the physical an insoluble mystery . |
| 14 | Only section 7(2) prevents us from treating it as two separate offences . |