Example sentences of "[adv] and prevent [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may settle the other two down and prevent one individual from being continually picked on . |
| 2 | This is n't likely to be a major hazard to the adventurers , but it will surprise them , slow them down and prevent easy escape . |
| 3 | Just a little bit of help can er can can bring those families back together and prevent those situations happening again . |
| 4 | His aims were ‘ to prevent mental illusions due to false ideas from within and to prevent false teaching from other fellows ’ . |
| 5 | Belladonna , which is not a nosode , may clear up and prevent scarlet fever , though this disease is little seen nowadays . |
| 6 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 7 | Just over three years ago Dr Helmut Kohl , federal chancellor , declaimed in the remains of the Reichstag that the Wall , stretching beyond the former capital of a united Germany around 100 miles in length , was ‘ a monument to inhumanity which tears families apart and prevents human contact . ’ |