Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] prevent [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was decided that the information was no longer confidential so as to prevent other parties making use of it . |
| 3 | It was generally agreed that ‘ One great good of the lads ’ club is to fill their lives with interests and excitements , so as to prevent premature love-making , the connections , and even the marriages ' . |
| 4 | Accordingly , having regard to maintaining the doctor 's primary duty , a Family Practitioners ' Committee is entitled to impose conditions limiting the number of visits per 1,000 patients which might be made by the deputising service , so as to prevent excessive use being made of a deputising service . |
| 5 | The few windows we passed were blocked up , so as to prevent light escaping . |
| 6 | His aims were ‘ to prevent mental illusions due to false ideas from within and to prevent false teaching from other fellows ’ . |
| 7 | Belladonna , which is not a nosode , may clear up and prevent scarlet fever , though this disease is little seen nowadays . |
| 8 | The fixing of the amounts of compensation made it very difficult for the investors to refuse and it was aimed at defending the DTI from outright criticism as well as preventing public uproar , he said . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |