Example sentences of "[noun prp] from [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Government have already banned Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams from travelling to the Commons to address MPs Glasgow district council says it wo n't stop Thursdays meeting because the city has a policy of freedom of speech . |
| 2 | The troublesome lamps flank the couch , where constituents sit and watch their congressman appear and disappear ; and the only thing that saved Orton from rushing to the floor to cast phantom votes when his clock buzzer went off was the fall-back alarm system , a personal bleeper . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 7 | A SPRAINED ankle will prevent Wallaby hero David Campese from playing before the November 21 Test against Wales at Cardiff Arms Park . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Peter 's attempt to stop Jesus from going to the cross was not his only mistake . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He pulled the drapes back , and it helped a little — the mixed twilight and yellow sodium light would at least be enough to prevent Alison from falling over the bag in the middle of the floor . |
| 12 | Unfortunately consistent snowfall and heavy spindrift prevented Milne , Prentice , Charlie French and Julian Fisher from progressing on the 500m granite headwall that 's the main feature of the South Face , so they turned their focus on an easier objective . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Inevitably Americans began to look for ways to prevent a war in Europe from spreading to the American homeland . |
| 15 | Only the Abdication had prevented Baldwin from going at the end of 1936 . |
| 16 | Only the war saved Joyce from declining into the crankiness and obscurity of those who , for instance , demanded in small newspaper advertisements and at Speakers ' Corner why the bishops refused to open Joanna Southcott 's box . |
| 17 | Now , I 'll save your life , if I can , but it must be a bargain — you must save Long John from dying under the law . ’ |
| 18 | But none of these horrors had dissuaded Godolphin from travelling in the Reconciled Dominions . |