Example sentences of "from [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of the GIS language to operate efficiently as an on-line database enquiry facility initially precluded local site personnel departments from producing their own information . |
| 2 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 3 | MIA FARROW yesterday banned her former lover Woody Allen from seeing their five-year-old son Satchel . |
| 4 | The goodbyes were said ; Annabel and Millie clasped hands , but Mrs Kirkley gently prevented her daughter from seeing their guests to the gate . |
| 5 | Some girls do n't even want to ask in case their parents get angry and ban them from seeing their boyfriends . |
| 6 | Now Kim wants a divorce and has barred Marsh from seeing their children , Scott , two and Kayla , one . |
| 7 | Then the feudal overlord would seek custody of the heir or heiress , would wish to choose a wife or husband for them and , in the meantime , collect the profits which came from administering their estates . |
| 8 | The US Supreme Court on Dec. 12 struck down a New York state law which provided for the seizure of profits made by convicted criminals from publicizing their crimes . |
| 9 | At some time or other the twin siren songs of forward and backward integration have led most large companies to do everything for themselves from manufacturing their own plant and spares , sometimes even as far as owning their own retail outlets . |
| 10 | They also plan to campaign for new laws to protect other workers by preventing firms from raiding their pension fund money . |
| 11 | For example , the 1971 Act prevents single mothers from bringing their children into Britain unless they can prove sole responsibility ; and a woman can never be regarded a ‘ head of a household ’ unless her husband is mentally or physically handicapped . |
| 12 | Chapter 2 showed how harmful this image can be in unwittingly discouraging many people in distress from bringing their problems to the CAB . |
| 13 | Refugees were prohibited from bringing their parents to Denmark if there were other offspring in the home country , and were obliged to guarantee to support family members joining them . |
| 14 | Both the Regional and the District Councils are taking steps to discourage people from bringing their cars into the city . |
| 15 | Soviet scholars and journalists could hint in their writings at problems in specific factories or could criticize particular managers or officials , but the censorship prevented them from generalising their observations into a critique of the system . |
| 16 | If he hangs on they will say , ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 17 | If he were to hang on , he told Stamfordham , the nation would say : ‘ Here is this man clinging to office , he wo n't take his defeat , he is trying to prevent the Labour Party from enjoying their victory . ’ |
| 18 | Obstacles which prevent young people from using their talents at home must be swept out of the way , he said . |
| 19 | Users with a horror of suddenly finding their workstations grinding to a snail 's pace need not worry since they can stop LoadLeveler from using their machines when they are logged on . |
| 20 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 21 | because er the roads are choked and I think that er public transport in the city should be improved and people discouraged from using their cars in our city . |
| 22 | The Lords serve to protect the electorate against the possibility that the Commons might prevent the electorate from using their present rights . |
| 23 | While the government may decide how much it wishes to spend on health care and it may seek to discourage employers from spending by changing tax incentives , the report said , the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from ‘ barring individuals from using their own funds or their own insurance coverage to obtain appropriate medical care ’ . |
| 24 | Car drivers are banned from using their cars in the capital one day each week — although many have circumvented the ban by purchasing a second car . |
| 25 | There is no reason to suppose that in Harlingdon Ltd such an exclusion clause would not have been maintained , especially since it would hardly be likely to deter art experts from using their skills in the market place to discover masterpieces . |
| 26 | On the requirement to spend 85 per cent of the DSS transfer money on the independent sector , the committee expresses concern that it will discourage SSDs from using their own residential care . |
| 27 | My basic feeling is that while it is reasonable to ask that that a council , as a council , as a political grouping , may make the decisions about things , it is an absolute nonsense that many , many councils — some of them are worse than others — will not let their professionals speak out on their you know from using their own expertise , their own knowledge , their own experience , and quite often that that debate , the whole debate is gagged by the fact that you 're employees of the council . |
| 28 | The Local Government and Housing Act , which came into force in April 1990 , prevents local authorities from subsidising their rents and insists that 75 per cent of the product of sales goes to pay off housing revenue account debts . |
| 29 | In theory , the best method of control is to shorten the life of the adult , vector mosquitoes , and so prevent the parasites from completing their life cycle . |
| 30 | Often the bookseller or cataloguer has not bothered to identify the arms , so that a good deal of pleasure can be obtained from rectifying their indolence or ignorance . |