Example sentences of "[noun prp] from [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mexico was also the object of early Comintern interest : Moscow was keen to promote Communist activity in Mexico in order to distract the United States from intervening against the Soviet Union , and dispatched Mikhail Borodin in 1919 partly to achieve this end . |
| 2 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 3 | Not that that prevented Cale from screaming at a potted plant sitting on his piano , or suddenly demolishing a table beside his stool with an axe in mid-performance . |
| 4 | Could I remind the Prime Minister that one of the consequences of his Maastricht agreement is to prevent Northern Ireland from participating in the new cohesion fund , to the extent of losing tens of millions of pounds ? |
| 5 | De Klerk stressed the need for " built-in guarantees and mechanisms which would prevent South Africa from falling into a one-party state or being delivered into the hands of an irrational dictator " . |
| 6 | The Kenyan Amateur Athletic Association barred Ngugi from competing in the national cross-country championships , which are used to select the team for the world championships in Spain on 28 March , at the weekend . |
| 7 | Proponents argue it would stabilise the pound and save Mr Lawson from resorting to the conventional answer to a currency crisis : a big emergency increase in interest rates . |
| 8 | She was delighted rather than otherwise to have an extra visitor , and she chattered throughout the excellent dinner , preventing Robbie from concentrating on the fascinating conversation going on between Fen and the rector . |
| 9 | McManaman made it three on 61 minutes … the County Ground faithful started to suffer from shellshock … the Town defence looked battle weary and beaten and surely would have stopped Ronie Whelan from scoring on a better day … |
| 10 | Inevitably Americans began to look for ways to prevent a war in Europe from spreading to the American homeland . |
| 11 | But none of these horrors had dissuaded Godolphin from travelling in the Reconciled Dominions . |