Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] to prevent the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRADE unions were instructed by Labour leaders to ignore Conservative attacks on their links with the party during the election campaign to prevent the Tories ‘ playing the union card ’ . |
| 2 | Conservatives in the region are calling for a tough new privacy law to prevent the hounding of the Royal Family in the Press . |
| 3 | Gall bladder bile samples were collected after the ligation of the cystic duct by the complete sterile needle aspiration f the gall bladder to prevent the stratification f bile . |
| 4 | Fellow directors had sought unsuccessfully in their court action to prevent the egm — called by majority shareholders George Deans and his father Hamish . |
| 5 | •The Performing Right Society ( PRS ) has won a High Court action to prevent the owner of the Miramar Hotel , Blackpool , Lancashire , from operating a television in the hotel lounge . |
| 6 | On 14 May , on the eve of the Arab forces ' entry into Palestine , he changed the invasion plan to prevent the Syrians from attacking south of the Sea of Galilee . |
| 7 | Only the size of the vehicle saved Mr Collier , who was able to cling to the steering wheel to prevent the water submerging him . |
| 8 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 9 | If you are melting bars of chocolate which will then reset , for example a chocolate biscuit cake , add an egg yolk to prevent the chocolate becoming cloudy and dull in appearance when it resets . |
| 10 | Economically , the underclass has become separated by a rebuttal from the labour market , combined with a Government policy to prevent the products of economic growth being shared amongst all sections of the community . |
| 11 | The US , increasingly troubled in Vietnam , was itself developing détente in the mid-1960s : Johnson and Kosygin met in June 1967 and another step in arms control was taken in July 1968 when America , Russia and Britain signed a Non-proliferation Treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to other States . |
| 12 | Dertouzos called for government regulation to prevent the linking of databases containing personal information without certain safeguards . |
| 13 | Plant the waterlily with just the ‘ nose ’ , or growing point , protruding above the soil and then cover the surface of the basket with a generous layer of pea gravel to prevent the fish from stirring up the mud . |
| 14 | Wrap the bottom corner with a couple of layers of masking tape to prevent the scraper from cutting the device . |
| 15 | These needed several coats of polyurethane varnish to prevent the dye leaching out . |
| 16 | On July 11 the government had passed an emergency budget to prevent the economy from collapsing . |
| 17 | Cover the treatment bath to prevent the fish jumping out , even if the bath is only for a minute or two . |
| 18 | It is clear that in reading a novel one can not influence its development ( that can be the pleasure or pain of reading ) , but it is almost equally hard for a criminal to influence the direction of a trial , or for a primary school pupil to prevent the lesson progressing as the teacher intends . |
| 19 | You must use a double-check valve on the hose supply to prevent the risk of back-siphonage contaminating the mains water supply if you use this technique . |
| 20 | Six nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion monastery at Daventry end their hen house occupation to prevent the slaughter of 5,000 hens thought to be infected with salmonella . |