Example sentences of "[noun pl] that prevent [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid . |
| 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 | It is only the natural caution of paleontologists that prevents them from jumping to startling conclusions . |
| 4 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 5 | We will continue our efforts to break down the barriers that prevent them from competing freely throughout Europe and in the wider world . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And to think that once she had accused him of having a shard of ice in his heart — some wound from previous love affairs that prevented him from ever revealing his real feelings to any woman . |
| 11 | Erm , everything else we 've looked at , there are either statutory problems or other problems that prevent us from charging . |
| 12 | Backed by the incessant thud of a drum machine , it 's only these electric rhythms that prevent them from tumbling into disorder . |
| 13 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 14 | The adaptation work should help to overcome or remove any obstacles that prevent you from enjoying the use of your present facilities . |
| 15 | Bell Atlantic Corp is asking the US Department of Justice to waive restrictions that prevent it from providing video programming services — it wants to provide the services across the US without regard to local access transport area boundaries of its local territory . |
| 16 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |