Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] from being [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And before long Mala was actually responding to some of my witticisms with that flashing smile which alters her from being pretty in to being staggeringly beautiful . |
2 | The charge against such a move is that it will pay unemployment benefit to claimants , some of whose household income already prevents them from being poor . |
3 | That prevents us from being receptive to life and therefore also from receiving its benefits . |
4 | ( This precludes them from being irreligious communists . ) |
5 | There is also a tendency to state the obvious in a way that stops it from being obvious . |