Example sentences of "prevent they [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prevent them by showering frequently , and always wear cotton underwear and absorbs perspiration and allows skin to breathe . |
| 2 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 3 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 4 | But county hall staff say there are practical problems which prevent them from laying speed monitoring cables . |
| 5 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 6 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 7 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 8 | Thus the common aim of both legal mechanisms is to force managers to maximize profits for their company and prevent them from maximizing their own utility . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When parents are so concerned for the children 's safety that they prevent them from exercising choice and making decisions , they are depriving them of the experience they need in order to cope with life as mature adults . |
| 11 | The difficulty encountered by the expertise theory in trying to demonstrate the legitimacy of corporate managerial power by showing that there are restraints on the discretion of the managers stems from its attempt to combine a deference to the judgments of business managers with an insistence that corporate managers are subject to fiduciary duties that prevent them from exercising their power for their own purposes or for other non-corporate ends . |
| 12 | ‘ The council also hopes that the package will help many women who are subjected to violence to overcome the problems which prevent them from seeking help . ’ |
| 13 | That is a fairly complicated question , which may confuse people and prevent them from seeing our present need clearly . |
| 14 | We prevent them from taking risks , discourage them from taking physical exercise , and even deny their sexuality . |
| 15 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 16 | This is the argument that women 's domestic responsibilities get in the way of their paid work , and prevent them from taking the opportunities for higher-paid work . |
| 17 | From travelling around I get the impression that , although they say they want to , most branches have other concerns which prevent them from taking up recruitment in an effective way . |
| 18 | There are only two network providers — Cellnet and Vodafone — and as their licences prevent them from dealing directly with end users , this role is fulfilled by the service providers . |
| 19 | Backed by the incessant thud of a drum machine , it 's only these electric rhythms that prevent them from tumbling into disorder . |
| 20 | Government concern is to develop what the Foreign Office called a mechanism to turn people round more quickly and prevent them from arriving at a destination where they were unwanted . |
| 21 | The shapes prevent them from bunching together . |
| 22 | Many Italian banks are still hopelessly overstaffed and strict Italian labour laws prevent them from curing this handicap quickly . |
| 23 | calm them down ; — prevent them from doing themselves an injury ; — do n't leave them alone ; — if they do n't calm down , call an ambulance or doctor ( dial 999 ) . |
| 24 | Or will this Government 's ideological opposition to council housing prevent them from doing that ? |
| 25 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 26 | Visually handicapped pupils are likely to need adaptations to the educational materials that are in the ordinary classroom if they have severe sight defects that prevent them from discriminating the size of print being used by the class . |
| 27 | ARC Northern wants a relaxation of planning conditions which prevent them from working their roadstone coating plant at their Penmaenmawr quarry on Sundays . |
| 28 | Great Pulteney Street alone is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide , though the thin pilasters and applied pediments of Bathwick 's terraces prevent them from ranking alongside the Royal Crescent and the King 's Circus as works of European significance . |