Example sentences of "[noun pl] prevent them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shapes prevent them from bunching together . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The defendant had taken no serious steps to prevent them as most were his customers . |
| 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 | Prop up heavily-laden branches to prevent them breaking . |
| 6 | Legal and natural persons are denied access to most international fora ; exclusionary rules prevent them from being parties , interveners , or even witnesses in what they may see as their own claims . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Service managers are waking up to the value of experienced nurses whose understandable reservations about being out of date with current ideas and technologies prevent them from taking up their careers again . |
| 9 | The limited resources available to individual local authorities prevent them solving employment problems caused by national deflationary policies and world recession . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But too often the system 's outdated working methods and attitudes prevent them from giving their best . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |
| 15 | Both men pulled on the cowl hoods to prevent them seeing their abductors . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Booth agreed that there was a mote in the eye of ministerial beholders preventing them reading the timetable properly . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He conceded that users ' huge investments in mainframe applications prevented them from moving to smaller systems . |
| 20 | Hitching his trousers to prevent them kneeing , James knelt in front of one of the bookcases and unlocked the cupboard doors . |
| 21 | The authorities ( the government operating through the Bank of England ) could impose statutory minimum reserve requirements on the banks to prevent them choosing to reduce their liquidity ratio and choosing thereby to create more credit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The original birds are believed to be escapees from captivity , probably from a private collector who omitted to clip their feathers to prevent them flying away . |
| 24 | The local managers of cattle stealing operations exchanged purloined cattle to prevent them from being identified . |
| 25 | As creatures evolve into larger forms they need strong internal structures to prevent them collapsing into a formless mass . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On the latter point , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made it plain in his statement that we shall explore further with Russia and the other republics how best we can assist in the provision of employment for the scientists within the CIS to prevent them from going abroad . |
| 28 | Midland also admitted failing to supervise the fund managers to prevent them concentrating their stock holdings too narrowly and that it failed to maintain a register of the holders of six of the trusts or the amount of their holdings . |
| 29 | If so , it may be possible to include specific provisions to prevent them recurring . |
| 30 | The lights fixed to the roof rack came on , but paper cones prevented them from being visible from the shore line . |