Example sentences of "from becoming [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ( very guarded ! ) formulation ‘ unit ’ does not in any way preclude us from becoming a committee , a commission , a staff , a section , or anything else you may choose once it has been decided what form we are going to take . |
| 2 | Efficiency plateaux are still a long way from becoming a feature of Southern energy economics . |
| 3 | Certain senior officers and all officers paid more than £19,500 per annum ( or such higher amount as regulations may determine ) are now classified as holding ‘ politically restricted posts ’ and are disqualified from becoming a member of any local authority ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : clauses 1 and 2 ) . |
| 4 | The new President of Guatemala , Jorge Serrano , stated after his election in January [ see p. 37956 ] that Guatemala would continue talks with Belize to settle their territorial dispute [ see p. 36999 ] , which had held Belize back from becoming a member of the OAS for many years and which Serrano described as " belonging to the past " . |
| 5 | Conductive Education is a preventive system aimed at stopping a disability from becoming a handicap . |
| 6 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it ( s merely ‘ being sent ’ to a place , and Very little different from becoming a parcel . |
| 7 | Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all ; it is merely being ‘ sent ’ to a place , and very little different from becoming a parcel |
| 8 | At the February 1990 meeting Ordóñez and Douglas Hurd , by then UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , also agreed to co-operate in preventing Gibraltar from becoming a base for drug trafficking and its burgeoning offshore finance companies from becoming a centre for money laundering . |
| 9 | The system should record the resources used during each terminal session , so that the utilization of the operation can be monitored and appropriate actions taken to prevent resource shortages from becoming a problem . |
| 10 | Conversely , vulgarity , if innocent , does not prevent the meanest of houses from becoming a home . |
| 11 | At the February 1990 meeting Ordóñez and Douglas Hurd , by then UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , also agreed to co-operate in preventing Gibraltar from becoming a base for drug trafficking and its burgeoning offshore finance companies from becoming a centre for money laundering . |
| 12 | He 's very annoyed because his lack of education has prevented him from becoming a candidate for Swansea West in the general election . |
| 13 | It would appear from the sequel that Lady Barbara would have been more reckless and that it was Hornblower 's caution which prevented the friendship from becoming a romance . |
| 14 | Robert Dunlop 's performance certainly lifted the Euro races onto a different level , and Jeremy McWilliams ' full-blooded riding in the Superbike races saved them from becoming a nonentity . |
| 15 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |
| 16 | There is a need to protect primary care from becoming a dumping ground for services which need to be provided but which they are currently not resourced to deal with . |
| 17 | * To prevent Nigeria from becoming a dumping ground , the country 's Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( FEPA ) has tightened regulations on the importation of toxic chemicals . |
| 18 | Nobody can stop someone who knows nothing about pigs from becoming a pig farmer . |
| 19 | Given the reformers ' argument that PR would enhance the likelihood of coalition government , consent could be undermined if government was to result from post-election bargaining between parties ; by a small center party holding the balance of power and hence wielding undue influence over government policy ; and by the alienation of voters who support a party excluded on a long-term basis from becoming a partner in coalition . |
| 20 | The last public challenge to the DVR 's policies failed in 1986 when an elected volunteer worker from the Dart Valley Railway Association was blocked from becoming a Director by the Board . |
| 21 | CINDERELLA made it to the ball — and just often enough to avoid her tennis return from becoming a pantomime farce . |
| 22 | This , however , did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries . |
| 23 | All sporting activities receive wide recognition ; cricket , far from becoming a game of the past , is flourishing , highlighted by coaching from ex-Lancashire captain John Abrahams . |
| 24 | The carer has to refuse to respond to shouting or aggressiveness or any other kind of unacceptable behaviour , to prevent it from becoming a source of attention for the patient . |
| 25 | If private property is to be legitimate within the framework of a liberal society it is also necessary to show that there are constraints which prevent it from becoming a source of power which threatens the liberty of the individual or rivals the power of the state . |
| 26 | Long mike leads need to be properly wired to prevent them from becoming an aerial . |
| 27 | I 've accepted that she tried to stop me from becoming an artist . |
| 28 | Like Hooker , he was saved from becoming an apprentice by his schoolmaster . |
| 29 | Indeed , the enormous catalogue — whose evident production problems will not prevent it from becoming an oeuvre de base — is the reverse of chauvinistic , with French scholars distinctly under-represented . |
| 30 | After his baptism , however , he moves suddenly towards the centre of the stage , not shrinking from the limelight , not shrinking from addressing large crowds , not shrinking from becoming the focus of public interest . |