Example sentences of "[adv] to prevent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officer in charge of the militia refused to let his men take part in the eviction , saying they were there merely to prevent disorder . |
| 2 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 3 | We want rather to see the state intervene only to prevent such use of land as is clearly anti-social or wasteful , while otherwise development is guided and determined by choice and by economic forces . |
| 4 | The leading case is Anisminic Ltd v. Foreign Compensation Commission , where the House of Lords held that the effect of an exclusion clause is only to prevent errors of law by a tribunal which are within its jurisdiction : the clause would not prevent the review of decisions outside jurisdiction . |
| 5 | There seems to be a very uneven development of user education programmes across the country at the moment , hence a need not only to prevent libraries from ‘ reinventing the wheel ’ in this area , but more important for them to be able to obtain advice on the ‘ best ’ available tried and tested programmes and methodologies . |
| 6 | Or only to prevent prior discovery ? |
| 7 | Contemporary understanding of the idea needs to be placed in the broader context of how the term has been understood in the past , if only to prevent an acceptance , without doubt or enquiry , of present notions of democracy as permanently definitive . |
| 8 | This downward mobility is now being reinforced by educational changes that operate not only to prevent the most disadvantaged children from benefiting from the increased degree of upward social mobility , but also prevent many of them entering the labour market at all . |
| 9 | As far as the letter above referred to is concerned , they had been advised that the restraint upon them was only to prevent them selling and this , of course , was not a sale . |
| 10 | It was both horrible and necessary , if only to prevent the spread of the disease throughout the Domain ; but it was just that — the horrible necessity of death — that gave it its fascination . |
| 11 | In the summer , the solar system should provide all the heat necessary ; at other times of the year , some ‘ topping-up ’ will be necessary and , in the winter , precautions have to be taken not only to prevent the solar part of the system freezing ( antifreeze is usually added to the water in this part of the system ) but also to prevent the whole system working in reverse which would mean that the domestic hot water cylinder was heating the solar collector ! |
| 12 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , local authorities have power not only to prevent developments which would clash with amenity ( for example , the siting of a repair garage in a residential area ) but also to reject badly designed developments which are not intrinsically harmful . |
| 14 | Partly penned by the South Shields linguist and folklore buff Moira Tatem ( Tatem , that is , not Totem ) it is sufficient not only to prevent you undertaking a midnight jaunt through graveyards but from ever getting out of bed again . |
| 15 | However , when towing in a cross wind , the glider will tend to weathercock into wind , and the person on the upwind wing will have difficulty in pushing forward enough to prevent this happening . |
| 16 | Although many gliders have a spring or bungee in the circuit to reduce the snatching loads at higher speeds on the approach , this is seldom powerful enough to prevent them sucking open if they are unlocked . |
| 17 | The edging for a gravel drive must be deep enough to keep in the gravel which is below ground level , and high enough to prevent the gravel being spread on to the garden . |
| 18 | The structure of the developing national authority has been both diffuse enough to prevent it from being destroyed by any one single sweep of arrests ( there have been more than 50,000 arrests since the Intifada 's outbreak ) , and coherent enough to allow for the existence of a unified resistance strategy . |
| 19 | A man who wished to build a villa in Benghazi , but was frustrated by his expectation that , if he did , he would have no protection strong enough to prevent immediate expropriation , explained the collapse of his hopes for a more elegant and civilized life . |
| 20 | A source close to the Clinton campaign said the idea is to bring the Bush rumours into the open ‘ to counter what 's already happened , then get this all out there , out of the way , enough to prevent the campaign from being preoccupied with these questions , then to prevent the Republicans , who are very good at it , from taking this low road ’ . |
| 21 | It is difficult to get the bottom strained tight enough to prevent a small lamb from burrowing underneath , and the lengths are not easy to roll up neatly after use . |
| 22 | The switch was n't early enough to prevent a number of white labels leaving Rough Trade with the original A-side . |
| 23 | One way round this is to tie a tiny hook to the hair and to bend inwards slightly the hook point — enough to prevent fish from being hooked but not enough to make hooking bait too difficult . |
| 24 | The division between the sleeping and run sections is fitted at floor level with a hole just large enough to allow the ferrets easy passage but small enough to prevent them dragging food carcasses from the run section into the sleeping quarters . |
| 25 | Filtration alone — however good — is not enough to prevent the dreaded ‘ green water ’ . |
| 26 | Once in place , the dividing mesh allows the water to circulate normally through the aquarium , but is still fine enough to prevent young fry from being sucked into the filter . |
| 27 | The Devil is not powerful enough to prevent genuine spiritual and personal fulfilment in the church . |
| 28 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 29 | Your notebook should be small enough to fit in your bag or pocket and have covers which are firm enough to prevent it from being damaged easily . |
| 30 | Although mist and rain prevented helicopters being used , the weather was not bad enough to prevent a large ground search being mounted . |