Example sentences of "prevent [pers pn] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this extent , Soviet foreign traders , who came late to the Latin American markets , may be disadvantaged in their competition with capitalist suppliers either because their own authorities prevent them from participating in the bidding for a project or because they can not mobilise the Soviet bureaucracy in time to meet deadlines . |
| 2 | Government concern is to develop what the Foreign Office called a mechanism to turn people round more quickly and prevent them from arriving at a destination where they were unwanted . |
| 3 | Great Pulteney Street alone is 1,100 feet long and 100 feet wide , though the thin pilasters and applied pediments of Bathwick 's terraces prevent them from ranking alongside the Royal Crescent and the King 's Circus as works of European significance . |
| 4 | He comes away from the roots and I swing the rod over to my right , parallel with the water , to keep him low and prevent him from splashing at the surface . |
| 5 | In some species the male will also take an active part in egg care , in other the female will reject him and prevent him from attending to the eggs . |
| 6 | For this , the physiotherapist usually sits in front of the patient on a stool , in order to stabilize his pelvis and prevent him from folding in the middle . |
| 7 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |