Example sentences of "prevent from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also in April 1990 , six Sri Lankan Tamils were prevented by Egyptair staff from disembarking at Heathrow : in August 1990 , four Eritreans were prevented from leaving a Czechoslovak Airlines plane . |
| 2 | A man and woman who do not want to have a baby can still enjoy lovemaking if they make sure the egg and sperm never meet , or if the egg is prevented from settling in the womb . |
| 3 | Make sure someone stays near so that if your child is sick , he or she can be prevented from inhaling vomit . |
| 4 | This is important when you throw a roundhouse kick and the supporting foot is prevented from swivelling . |
| 5 | Once within range , parts of her body could not be prevented from touching parts of his . |
| 6 | Hammersmith has been prevented from alleviating its position because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Environment Secretary , blocked further transactions . |
| 7 | Under the legal framework employers would also be prevented from winning interim injunctions to stop disruption backed by lawful ballots . |
| 8 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |
| 9 | He also needs to cap the new price so that it is prevented from rising further over the remaining four years of construction if he is to convince bankers that they should continue to support Eurotunnel . |
| 10 | The Independent has discovered that another important survey of sexual behaviour connected with Aids research , commissioned by the health department , was prevented from being published . |
| 11 | The unusual violence was blamed by Lutheran church sources here on the frustration of a trainload of young people prevented from crossing the now-closed border to Czechoslovakia , and the chance of clambering into the West German Embassy in Prague . |
| 12 | At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness . |
| 13 | Nor , again , would local authorities be prevented from continuing to build at something like the present rate — though ( as will presently be shown ) for different purposes . |
| 14 | As long as the public is not prevented from choosing one thing in preference to another , people will express their choice by what they are prepared to pay for the one compared with the other . |
| 15 | Refugee families in obvious distress were discouraged and often prevented from joining their relations and Asian friends in Britain by the Board 's refusal of all aid to them if they settled in areas with significant Asian populations . |
| 16 | Aszal says that he tried to call a doctor or an ambulance from the public telephone but was prevented from doing so by the guards . |
| 17 | As for their children , they would not be allowed to live in Britain for any length of time , and while they were here they would be prevented from attending school . |
| 18 | At least if there is a uniform a rule is seen to exist , but it is in schools where there is no uniform but where girls are prevented from wearing trousers that the greatest conflict can arise . |
| 19 | In this way , the new upper floor is prevented from crossing the original three-light arched windows which serve the end bays of the lower storey , and the stair is prevented from conflicting with the central window of this range by the introduction of a further quarter-landing at an intermediate level that turns its lowest flight parallel to the side elevation at a level just below the window-sill ( Fig 49 ) . |
| 20 | In this way , the new upper floor is prevented from crossing the original three-light arched windows which serve the end bays of the lower storey , and the stair is prevented from conflicting with the central window of this range by the introduction of a further quarter-landing at an intermediate level that turns its lowest flight parallel to the side elevation at a level just below the window-sill ( Fig 49 ) . |
| 21 | Hundreds of television employees said they would strike if prevented from reporting the demonstration . |
| 22 | Hundreds of television employees said they would strike if prevented from reporting the demonstration . |
| 23 | Since his release a year ago , he has been prevented from working as a journalist . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When the constraints eased under the pressure of fresh competition , people were able to borrow what they were previously prevented from borrowing . |
| 26 | The germs have to be prevented from getting too hot or cold during the loading and flight of the aircraft that is to spray them . |
| 27 | To his credit , he wanted to give the markets a new nominal rule , on the exchange rate , but was prevented from doing so by Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's visceral dislike of the European Monetary System . |
| 28 | Deregulate private minivan services , which are currently prevented from serving many areas . |
| 29 | If he is doing what is against conscience , he is injuring his soul — remember that the Chancellor is an ecclesiastic — and it is better that he should be prevented from inflicting such injury on himself . |
| 30 | They were only prevented from boarding the plane when the aircraft 's captain refused them permission . |