Example sentences of "them from [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 2 | They were said to have been forcibly dressed in the prison uniform and held for at least 17 days with their arms chained to the cell bars to prevent them from removing the uniform . |
| 3 | I 'm still doing sex education at schools and look like it 's changing a lot cos there 's a lot more to do there , a lot more emphasis on Aids , that 's why they 've got to ki , teach kids in primary school , we 've got to prevent them from getting a disease . |
| 4 | This is the argument that women 's domestic responsibilities get in the way of their paid work , and prevent them from taking the opportunities for higher-paid work . |
| 5 | A , a mountaineer , roped to his fellows , cut the rope in order to prevent them from dragging the leader of the party to death . |
| 6 | The offence could be used against counter-demonstrators who set out to ‘ smash ’ their opponents or to stop them from expressing the point of view that they set out to express . |
| 7 | But this does not disqualify them from using the word , any more than the English who displaced the ancient Britons are disqualified from continuing to use the name ‘ Britain ’ ( no doubt to the irritation of their southern neighbours , the Bretons of Bretagne ) . |
| 8 | When the challengers , who have a bigger budget and more style than the host body , wanted to open their own village , the ACOC barred them from using the words ‘ America 's Cup ’ . |
| 9 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 10 | ‘ He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them , the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ ’ ( 2 Cor. |
| 11 | I tend to get to hear about them from seeing the Post Office . |
| 12 | Edith Sitwell had wanted to sue a reviewer because his notice was likely to hurt the sales of her book — and we thought it had merely been his duty to his readers to discourage them from buying a book that he thought bad . |
| 13 | Bob Hopkins quotes the view ( see Church Planting II , Grove Books , page 21 ) that the parish boundary at its worst is ‘ a line drawn round thousands of people to protect them from hearing the Gospel . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Here you have the sea so I think we have ways and means of — if it came to it — of stopping them from entering the harbour landing . |
| 15 | You 're not , you 've got ta get people marked down and you got ta stop them from developing the play . |
| 16 | The march was attended by 3,500 ( as compared with 100,000 at a similar march in January — see p. 38736 ) and passed peacefully except that afterwards members of a Trotskyist group , the Revolutionary Communist Youth , broke away and battled with the police preventing them from reaching a hall where Le Pen was speaking . |
| 17 | Hoomey saw an ally in Nails , to help him stop them from sending the horses back to the knacker 's . |
| 18 | An injunction was granted against USI prohibiting them from publishing the phone numbers of British abortion clinics in student union handbooks . |
| 19 | But Burmese dissidents in the area , including a representative of Aung San Suu Kyi 's own party , said yesterday that Thai local authorities had barred them from meeting the Nobel winners . |
| 20 | Visually handicapped pupils are likely to need adaptations to the educational materials that are in the ordinary classroom if they have severe sight defects that prevent them from discriminating the size of print being used by the class . |
| 21 | There was a warm welcome from the people of Barbados , but their sympathy did not prevent them from preparing a pitch to suit the fast bowlers when the Test took place . |
| 22 | Anti-military parents will allow their sons to join the Boy Scouts , but prohibit them from joining a Cadet Corps … |
| 23 | Draw a number line to read in equal spaces from unc The building at the side of this page has an elevator which carries people up or down to save them from climbing the stairs . |
| 24 | The building at the side of this page has an elevator which carries people up or down to save them from climbing the stairs . |
| 25 | The compromise between the professionally interested parties , the outsiders and the ‘ Barons ’ , was arrived at by , on the one hand , removing the numerical ceiling which operated previously , to the detriment of the large firms , but also , by placing a limitation on these same firms , preventing them from flooding the rota with in experienced staff . |
| 26 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 27 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |
| 28 | Robert Dunlop 's performance certainly lifted the Euro races onto a different level , and Jeremy McWilliams ' full-blooded riding in the Superbike races saved them from becoming a nonentity . |
| 29 | Long mike leads need to be properly wired to prevent them from becoming an aerial . |
| 30 | US and British investigators also complained that the West German police had withheld information on the PFLP-GC arrests , preventing them from making the Malta link earlier . |