Example sentences of "from [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stop eyeshadow from gathering in the creases of your eyelids by powdering the lids first and using a waterproof eye-shadow . |
| 2 | The infirmaries at the plant were shut , Chernobyl 's medical centre was not equipped to take nuclear cases , there were few iodine pills to distribute — although they are the only way of preventing radioactive iodine from accumulating in the thyroid . |
| 3 | She complained of being prevented from helping in the house — ‘ You 'll tire yourself out ’ — or from going out in cold weather , and above all , of not being taken seriously . |
| 4 | Until the middle of last year firms wishing to adopt them were in danger of falling foul of the Companies Act , which prohibited companies from assisting in the purchase of their own shares . |
| 5 | The fellowship itself has an innate self-criticism which comes from wading in the quicksands of the psychic . |
| 6 | One group of alternants clearly originates with the extension of the general unrounding of ME u ( as in cut , dull ) to initial labial items , such as pull , but it is not clear how the words originating from shortening in the ME o set can be predicted phonologically ( for example , if took belongs to the set , why not cook ? ) . |
| 7 | In 1984 Kahane was elected to the Knesset as his party 's sole representative , but in October 1988 the Israeli Supreme Court upheld a decision taken by the central elections committee to ban Kach from competing in the forthcoming elections because of its " Nazi-like , un-democratic and racist " stance [ see p. 36947 ] . |
| 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 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 10 | Bernice had tried to explain to her android companion about the man who had saved her from drowning in the quicksand . |
| 11 | First , it must be established that sufficiently large future losses can be threatened so that , when discounted to a present value , they offset the gain from reneging in the current period . |
| 12 | Harnessing our financial resources remains a major priority for us and despite another major capital expenditure programme , we expect to achieve a more balanced position from trading in the current year . |
| 13 | The steel furred to keep it from cracking in the cold , |
| 14 | The proposals in the White Paper would prevent this from happening in the future . |
| 15 | Thus the manes would be stopped from interfering in the family 's affairs . |
| 16 | If Damiani could go to Jaffa , most of his fellow exiles are prevented forever from walking in the streets outside their old houses — or knocking on those front doors . |
| 17 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 18 | When American Equity threatened to bar her from appearing in the New York version of the show , Lloyd Webber threatened to jettison it altogether . |
| 19 | To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed . |
| 20 | It turned to booing and some chanted expletives by the eighth , when Leonard , clearly mastering the fight , won points with some superb counter-shots but then pulled back from driving in the wedge . |
| 21 | This section ( 1 ) disqualifies persons in certain trades from acting in any way as a member of a board , ( 2 ) disqualifies a person holding a disqualifying interest in a company from taking part in proceedings in which the company is an applicant or an objector , ( 3 ) disqualifies an employee of a licence holder under the Act , and any person engaged in a business dealing with alcoholic liquor , including the directors , officers and employees of companies engaged in such businesses from acting as a member of a licensing board , ( 4 ) disqualifies a member of a board , who is the owner or tenant of premises , from acting in the granting of a certificate in respect of those premises , ( 5 ) makes it an offence to contravene the section , ( 6 ) declares , subject to the proviso ( that the grant of a new licence is not liable to objection on the ground that one or more of the members of the board who granted it were not qualified to act ) , anything done in contravention of the section void , and ( 7 ) exempts members of a committee to determine the distribution of licences in a new town from disqualification for being members of a board by reason of their membership of the committee . |
| 22 | It will without much doubt remain true , however , that so long as Britain attaches paramount importance to tying her currency in with the Deutschmark and to the other European currencies , her governments will be inhibited from acting in the direct interest of British citizens . |
| 23 | The new law , proposed in early July [ see p. 38361 ] , which imposed a ban on parties based on " apostasy , sectarianism , racism , regionalism or anti-Arabism " , also barred all but the Ba'ath Party from operating in the armed forces and security services . |
| 24 | 1 ) ; from living in the ceremonial booths at Sukkoth ( Sukk . |
| 25 | She 'd known he was growing up peculiar — he did badly at school , and had no friends — but she 'd begun to see , from living in the same house as him again , how different he was from other kids . |
| 26 | forbidding people from smoking in the house |
| 27 | Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence . |
| 28 | Then eject her from the taxi , propel her on to its bonnet , and let her do the business from Singin' in the Rain . |
| 29 | Swimming : Apart from swimming in the lake itself , Zell am See has an excellent public pool close to the town centre . |
| 30 | As the pain became more intense there was less and less space for his mind to wander over things , undone things that suddenly took on ridiculous and unrealistic urgency , but his thoughts were still churning with his innards and he could not keep out stray fragments of enacted scenes any more than he could stop the brilliant black fish from swimming in the air past his eyes . |