Example sentences of "[adv] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 2 | Education can make people more productive while health can only prevent them from becoming less productive . |
| 3 | ( 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 . |
| 4 | He was determined to disarm any refugees who came into the grounds , and so prevent anyone from starting trouble there . |
| 5 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 6 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 7 | Thus it is often erroneously supposed that a provision of the Convention which merely prevents it from displacing or affecting a particular legal right thereby effectuates that right , whereas in truth the sole consequence of the provision is to leave the matter to be determined under the applicable national law . |
| 8 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 9 | this is a restriction on the debtor personally preventing him from disposing of or dealing in any property owned by him . |
| 10 | She skilfully prevented him from slipping the crime prevention leaflet in at the bottom of the pile . |
| 11 | A Constituent Assembly was elected in May 1990 but the military authorities have effectively prevented it from convening . |
| 12 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |
| 13 | It effectively prevented him from working for another insurance company during that period . |
| 14 | In that document , there is a very strong reference to the fact that that power should be either restrictive or removed and that there should be a right of appeal against it , which would effectively prevent us from using it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I wanted to tell her that I had told Syl I would n't marry him , but I did n't , for I felt that once I had told Lili she would somehow prevent me from recanting and that , freed from Syl , I should be bound even tighter to my mother . |
| 17 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 18 | These valves also serve to trap any water which may accidentally pass the blowhole , and thus prevent it from entering the lungs , which would cause choking or drowning . |
| 19 | They might have been intended to catch the blade of an opponent , thus preventing it from sliding past the hilt , and injuring the holder . ’ |
| 20 | She had always felt insulated from pain with him , as if the condoms served to forever prevent them from getting unhealthily close . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dorothy alone remained a still centre , and when in January 1795 Wordsworth was left £900 in the will of Raisley Calvert , a young friend and admirer who had died of tuberculosis , there seemed nothing further to prevent them from realizing their hopes of a life together . |
| 23 | He gambled and drank , and she had to humour him always to prevent him from flying into rages … . |
| 24 | The man 's Jacobitism clearly prevented him from securing any alternative office , and the division of the collectorship had to be resurrected . |
| 25 | But it also prevented her from claiming in her own right . |
| 26 | Ginny Leng 's Master Craftsman won Badminton in 1989 , but missed the last two runnings because of injury , which also prevented her from defending her European title last season . |
| 27 | Professor Fritz Eloff , the President of the powerful Northern Transvaal Union and Craven 's vice president for 20 years , substituted for him at IRB meetings abroad when Craven 's failing health repeatedly prevented him from attending . |
| 28 | ‘ They will also prevent me from selling these pieces for a long time to come ’ , he said . |
| 29 | It also prevents one from churning out the same stuff of conversation over a long period to different people ( to use words at people ) which is using those people as hard reflective surfaces and not , as I feel properly , soft digestive reflective surfaces . |
| 30 | Fgf-4 RNA is localized to the posterior half of the AER , and the affinity of FGF-4 protein for extracellular matrix components presumably prevents it from diffusing very far from the cells that secrete it . |