Example sentences of "[noun pl] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shapes prevent them from bunching together . |
| 2 | The latest sighting of Hamilton-Jones at the Kelvin Hall prompted Ward to report yesterday that senior officials would meet quickly to discuss methods to prevent him from competing . |
| 3 | If in that situation some consumers might reasonably be expected to rely on the misleading information , the trader commits an offence unless he has taken all reasonable steps to prevent them from doing so . |
| 4 | In the West African republic of Liberia where eighty five per cent of the population have been displaced , children , some as young as eight are being placed in secure compounds to prevent them from going back to fight for the waring factions . |
| 5 | Two reasons prevent it from continuing to provide this function . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On the following weekend circumstances prevented me from getting out , but my companions made their way to the site on their own . |
| 12 | It should be remembered that there are other provisions which could in certain circumstances prevent him from doing so ( see Chapter 5 above ) . |
| 13 | If urgent circumstances prevent you from attending this course , please notify your own departmental training contact ( name below ) immediately . |
| 14 | For instance , people have long known that squeezing lemon juice on sliced fruits prevents them from turning brown , but until recently it was not known why lemon juice has this effect . |
| 15 | When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These and other caveats prevent me from giving an unqualified recommendation to this new disc . |
| 18 | He conceded that users ' huge investments in mainframe applications prevented them from moving to smaller systems . |
| 19 | It is a pity that Fforde 's determination to present the Conservative party as decided individualists prevented him from exploring the confusion in the Conservative ranks indicated by his evidence . |
| 20 | Standing over him , she saw how very old he must be , with the skin of his face and neck pleated in heavy folds of wrinkles and his wild hair quite sparse and white , and only her respect for his years prevented her from shaking him . |
| 21 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |
| 22 | The conventions prevented her from heaping any further abuse on Chay Bank , a housing project which she had frequently and loudly denounced , but near which she had never set foot : the precariousness of her own social position would forever prevent her from visiting Fred Bowen , and this yearly ritual meeting on neutral ground was as much as she would ever dare risk . |
| 23 | Now look at which fears prevent you from doing what you want to do now . |
| 24 | I consider that I B M strives to be a good employer and that it 's long established belief in respect for the individual has shaped our personal policies to reflect these needs within our community , and for example , our equal opportunity principles prevent us from considering race , colour or sex , when offering someone employment or promotion . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But , if the refusal or the conditions prevent him from obtaining ‘ reasonably beneficial use ’ of the land , he can serve a purchase notice . |
| 27 | My next bout of health problems prevented me from continuing this search , and I was forced to wait for the weather to become a little sunnier before taking the risk of venturing out . |
| 28 | What in our political and cultural traditions prevent us from having a ‘ pro-people ’ health service — and society for that matter ? |
| 29 | 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. ) . |
| 30 | Though these courts were in no sense treated as subordinate by the King 's Courts , the latter would issue prohibitions to prevent them from dealing with matters that did not concern them . |