Example sentences of "prevent [pers pn] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main concern was that independent arbitration would drag out negotiations and prevent them complying with the MMC proposals to free pubs from the tie by the deadline of November 1992 . |
| 2 | The verses seem to be saying that the disciples understand because they have been given the secrets of the mystery of the kingdom but everybody else is taught in parables so that it will confuse them and prevent them coming into the kingdom . |
| 3 | But make sure the sheeting is easily detachable so that it does not prevent you getting through the window in case of fire . |
| 4 | Dropping the bedding in her arms she held on to him and probably prevented him falling from the narrow landing down the stairway . |
| 5 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 6 | However , the controversy obscured the clear military fact that Operation ‘ Apache Snow ’ was not intended to hold territory , but rather to keep the NVA occupied and thereby prevent it moving into the coastal provinces . |
| 7 | Experts say it 's vital they prevent it happening in the future . |
| 8 | This wo n't significantly affect the water flow , but should prevent it sticking in the future . |
| 9 | Whereas love is the accelerator which gets us moving , fear is the brake which prevents us going in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 11 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 12 | For example , on Easter Monday , 27 April 1981 , the skins at Brighton were penned into a small groyne by the police to prevent them fighting with the mods . |
| 13 | ‘ The reason that Hollywood keeps selling all its film companies to the Australians , the Japanese , and so on , is to prevent them falling into the hands of people from New York . ’ |
| 14 | Providing authorities/hospitals would be paid for cases treated either on the basis of actual cost per case , or on some laid-down or agreed cost per case , and there seems little to prevent them behaving in the same manner as hospitals elsewhere where either ‘ Retrospective full cost reimbursement ’ or ‘ Prospective reimbursement ’ systems are in operation . |
| 15 | Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar . |
| 16 | Jones fears his criminal record pre-dating Pistols days might be used by US Immigration to prevent him returning to the States . |
| 17 | Which would seem to imply that he murdered Christian to prevent her telling about the murder of the widow . |
| 18 | Filling the pipe with sand will help to prevent it breaking in the wrong place . |
| 19 | The Government yesterday extended by three months an export ban on Canova 's marble statue The Three Graces , to give time to raise £7.6 million to prevent it going to the Getty Museum in California .. |
| 20 | Drains are usually secured by a suture , and a sterile safety pin may be placed through the drain to prevent it retreating into the wound . |
| 21 | Get the wing-tip holder to keep the down wind wing-tip high and apply a little aileron to prevent it falling during the first part of the take-off run . |
| 22 | The servant got his hand to it just in time to prevent it falling onto the marble floor . |
| 23 | Even if you decide you do n't have a problem now , it makes sense to do all you can to prevent it happening in the future . |
| 24 | Holding his breath , Patrick lifted the gate slightly to prevent it scraping along the ground and then pushed it open . |
| 25 | Cusps ( pockets ) filled with blood trying to flow in wrong direction preventing it passing through the valve and stopping backflow |
| 26 | It can hardly have been removed or destroyed to prevent us learning about the fight between Middlemass and Lorrimer . |