Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence Eagleburger , the US Secretary of State , admitted in a speech to the assembly that past " errors " in US foreign policy had come from viewing the problems of the region through the " sometimes distorting prism of the Cold War " . |
| 2 | The interim SII report will spell out the new powers that the commission will shortly have at its disposal , including higher penalties ( currently 1.5% of the profits earned from operating a cartel ) . |
| 3 | The All ‘ Grey ’ New Zealanders ( expressly forbidden from using the name and the All Black logo ) wore a classic grey outfit and called themselves ‘ Lyons Tea XV ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The legal advice required has varied from transacting a management buy-out and dismissing a senior director to a host of commercial contracts . |
| 5 | The reaction of parents to this knowledge varied from throwing the user out of the family home to paying for their habit until a place at a treatment centre could be found ( see Dorn and South 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The balance has tipped from viewing the problem entirely in terms of liability and expense to acknowledging that it also offers an opportunity … |
| 7 | Even if you get discouraged from seeing no results from all your efforts , what you write makes a difference . |
| 8 | Investment in training will therefore be discouraged , and managers are similarly discouraged from causing the company to engage in research and development and other projects the return from which will only be reflected in managers ' rewards in the long term . |
| 9 | Now , the Family Health Services Authority has warned that unless it is given more money , prospective fundholders could be discouraged from joining the scheme . |
| 10 | Consequently , both the Indians and Chinese were confirmed in their immigrant status , discouraged from having a stake in our adopted country . |
| 11 | Secondly the adviser is discouraged from closing the interview too quickly after an initial problem has been presented by the client . |
| 12 | Donald Hardie , the Scottish director of the IoD , feels the problem stems from the education system , with girls being discouraged from studying the subjects that would get them on to the business ladder . |
| 13 | He says he can only recall one instance in his eight-year association with CBS when he was discouraged from recording a piece for other than artistic reasons . |
| 14 | In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 15 | Within minutes one was torn from reading a book to being gagged and trussed up in a sack , carried down stairs by running men , waiting for the bag to slip or rip and one 's head or neck to smash against the hard stone steps . |
| 16 | The Anglian Water Authority , which said it had been constrained from discussing the problems because it might affect the price of shares during privatisation , refused last night to attend a meeting of local people worried about the problem . |
| 17 | The plaintiff was in any case prevented from bringing an action by the statutory provision , which is not limited to a bare right of passage and is not lost by the taking of a photograph . |
| 18 | It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands . |
| 19 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 20 | It was further revealed that after their arrest the Clarkes had been prevented from seeing a lawyer for two days . |
| 21 | Einstein was unable to observe relativity , and was prevented from seeing the effects of travelling at the speed of light by the irritatingly inconvenient circumstance of its impossibility . |
| 22 | Despite gaining a simple majority of votes a bidder may still be unable to gain control of the supervisory board with its entrenched powers and consequently be prevented from controlling the management of the company . |
| 23 | A court will also give greater importance to ensuring employees are not prevented from earning a living . |
| 24 | At present , patients are prevented from receiving the benefit for the first six months of a terminal illness . |
| 25 | On May 2nd this same year the ladies had the inconvenient request of asking that the men be prevented from using the ladies ' lavatory . |
| 26 | Handicapped drivers were also alarmed to hear they would be prevented from using the streets like all other drivers . |
| 27 | Thus where the discretionary fund management arm of a conglomerate receives confidential information from the corporate finance arm about Company X , the fund management arm may be prevented from using the information of disclosing it if it has actual knowledge of the breach of confidence or possibly where it ought to have known of the breach . |
| 28 | For example , if A tells B something in confidence and B ( without A 's permission ) passes the information on to C , who has not been told that it is confidential and the circumstances are such that an obligation of confidence can not be imputed to C , then C will be able to use the information freely although B himself can be prevented from using the information or divulging it further . |
| 29 | On April 22 opposition parties who had assembled to voice their criticism of the new government were prevented from holding a press conference in a state-owned hotel after the Information Ministry allegedly refused permission for the use of hotel premises which had not been previously booked . |
| 30 | If information is to be prevented from reaching the press , then the yardstick that determines success or failure is whether that information reaches the press or not ! |