Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , tour operators are strictly forbidden from seeking out belugas , because they are an endangered species , but the beluga has nevertheless become a powerful symbol of ecological neglect for those who have experienced the 3-hour cruises , complete with detailed lectures about the animal 's plight . |
| 2 | Members were discouraged from bringing along a personal caddie and if they did they still had to pay the caddie master the fee he would have received , irrespective of whether there was a caddie available or not ! |
| 3 | [ 'Kinship defenders ' ] also feel that insufficient work is carried out by social workers on the rehabilitation of separated families , while at least some of the ‘ society-as-parent ’ school seem more aware of situations where rehabilitation is attempted inappropriately , and perhaps foisted on an unwilling parent , and feel that social workers should be discouraged from holding out unrealistic hopes of restoring the child . |
| 4 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 5 | Push slivers of Flora margarine under the skin so that the flesh is prevented from drying out as it cooks . |
| 6 | How could the eggs be prevented from drying out and how could tadpoles develop out of water ? |
| 7 | A longer pair for waders and which are prevented from slipping down by an elasticated band , cost a pound more . |
| 8 | The government has responded with engineering works to prevent the rivers ' winter and spring floods reaching the marshes ; according to the UN , water has been prevented from reaching up to two-thirds of the marshes this spring . |
| 9 | The trains are prevented from toppling over by another wheel which runs against a vertical concrete track . |
| 10 | Some leading MEPs believe an alliance with reform-minded MPs must be struck if leaders like Mrs Thatcher are to be prevented from setting up an economic and monetary union , which is essentially uncontrolled by any democratically-elected body . |
| 11 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 12 | Whenever records are added to an existing file , as both home and synonym records from the original load have already been stored ; in this case the probability of an addition that is a potential home record being prevented from taking up its home position by a synonym that was loaded earlier is high . |
| 13 | Twenty four year old builder Ian Baxter , from Tilehurst in Reading , threatened to slice up the driver of a petrol tanker with a builder 's grinder when prevented from filling up at the Blewberry Service Station in Oxfordshire ; he hit the driver with the grinder , knocking out two of his teeth . |
| 14 | Customs spokesman John Barber said this did not mean the drugs teams were prevented from carrying out their vital work . |
| 15 | For the moment these parties are not officially banned , merely prevented from carrying out any political activity . |
| 16 | UNPROFOR members were to be allowed to use force for self-defence , including when prevented from carrying out their mandate . |
| 17 | The two assassins had joined the crew of the navy rescue expedition which had followed the escape pod down from the survey vessel from which it had been ejected , and they had been prevented from finishing off both their intended victim and the accidental witnesses only because of the timely intervention of a Yek patrol . |
| 18 | electricity board owed a duty of care to an intelligent teenage boy to ensure that he was effectively prevented from climbing up a pole-mounted , high voltage electrical installation . |
| 19 | If he is genuinely concerned that Newcastle has been prevented from putting in more than one bid , I shall look into the matter for him . |
| 20 | A refusal to do so would amount to a resignation , and the employee would prima facie not be entitled to any compensation payment , unless , for example , he were prevented from working out his notice period . |
| 21 | This section of the Policy covers the Policyholder if they are TOTALLY DISABLED from engaging in or giving attention to THEIR PROFESSION OR OCCUPATION , as disclosed and declared on the policy , as a result of sickness . |
| 22 | A stately home has been saved from falling down by its new owners . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association said many poultry owners would have been saved from going out of business if the compensation was paid when it was due . |
| 24 | You did it by putting a a a erm a layer of animal skin glue which is made from boiling down old sheepskins and parchment , that 's the size , that seals the wood . |
| 25 | Many residents were reduced to eating a crude bread made from grinding down the cores of corn cobs , mixed with buds from tree branches and berries from which tea was brewed . |
| 26 | The emphasis shifted from rolling back Serb territorial gains in Bosnia to preventing new ones . |
| 27 | ( Died from falling down a flight of steps and fracturing his skull . ) |
| 28 | When the Report was subsequently embodied into an Act of Parliament , many born-deaf people of undoubted ability found themselves debarred from taking up teaching as a profession unless they could first prove they were able to teach in ordinary schools . |
| 29 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 30 | Courtney must be stopped from carrying out more despicable crimes . |