Example sentences of "[adv] prevent [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prompt action by local people can not only prevent ultimate demolition , but also save many thousands of pounds in repair costs . |
| 2 | In 1866 an alliance between the Bakufu 's two leading opponents , Satsuma and Chó0shó0 , was signed , ending disagreements which had hitherto prevented concerted action , and depriving the Bakufu of Satsuma support for a military expedition mounted to chastise the more radical Choshú0 for its insubordination . |
| 3 | Or would African governments control the press and so prevent alternative voices from being heard ? |
| 4 | This might be in the long-term interests of English football , if the FA exercised their authority to discourage greedy club chairmen from out-shouting moderate colleagues , and so prevent acceptable reform from deteriorating into a reckless gold rush . |
| 5 | Using untreated natural materials which allow the building to ‘ breathe ’ , and so prevent damp setting in . |
| 6 | Another Royal Bank policy , to prevent reporting accountants from then undertaking the receivership and so prevent potential conflicts of interest , was also said to be too restrictive . |
| 7 | The acceptance of the proposals of the Franks Committee to reform the Official Secrets Act would not necessarily prevent civil servants in the future being faced with a clash of loyalties but it should make the problem less acute . |
| 8 | While insulation will reduce heat loss , it will not necessarily prevent burst pipes . |
| 9 | The international safeguards which apparently prevent civil nuclear material from being used for arms fuelling can be side stepped by nuclear powers like the UK ‘ for national security reasons ’ Priddle admitted . |
| 10 | Or only to prevent prior discovery ? |
| 11 | Exchange rates had only been adjusted as a last resort by deficit and surplus countries , and so were not used speedily enough to prevent prolonged payments imbalances and exchange rate crises . |
| 12 | The Devil is not powerful enough to prevent genuine spiritual and personal fulfilment in the church . |
| 13 | Once in place , the dividing mesh allows the water to circulate normally through the aquarium , but is still fine enough to prevent young fry from being sucked into the filter . |
| 14 | A man who wished to build a villa in Benghazi , but was frustrated by his expectation that , if he did , he would have no protection strong enough to prevent immediate expropriation , explained the collapse of his hopes for a more elegant and civilized life . |
| 15 | As Travers ( 1986 , p. 168 ) notes , the government had to set rate limits high enough to prevent legal challenges that income was insufficient to meet statutory obligations . |
| 16 | The mechanical output power per phase is simply the product of the phase current and the induced voltage ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) : As the system is assumed to have an inertia large enough to prevent significant changes in velocity , the time.varying components of mechanical output power are of no interest and only the first term of Eqn . |
| 17 | He fears that his libidinal impulses and those of other people can not control the aggressive impulses sufficiently to prevent utter chaos and destruction . |
| 18 | Record must be handled gently to prevent bruising . |
| 19 | In addition to the secretary of state for the environment , the director-general of water services , and the EC commissioners , regulators include the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( which has already stepped in to prevent unwelcome mergers ) ; the local authorities ( responsible for monitoring and controlling the standard of clean water supplies ) ; the Drinking Water Inspectorate ( the auditor of technical standards ) ; the National Rivers Authority ( responsible for monitoring and controlling pollution in rivers , lakes and coastal waters , and for maintaining sea walls ) ; Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , HMIP ( which grants consents for the release of toxic substances into the environment ) ; and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( responsible for granting consents for disposals at sea ) . |
| 20 | Males of this species hold harems of three to six females , and forcibly prevent other males from mating with them . |
| 21 | However , this has not prevented other European countries from establishing legislation which demanded component change to achieve desired results , and this is still a trend . |
| 22 | But it utterly prevented permanent victory . |
| 23 | Screening tests which identify the presence of mental handicap in the unborn child do not prevent mental handicap , because the handicap is already present . |
| 24 | In more homogenous countries than Italy and Belgium , proportional representation does not prevent absolute majorities being won as the record of Fianna Fail in Ireland , of Norwegian and Swedish socialists , of both Labour and Nationalists in Malta and of the British Liberal Democrats ' sister party in Portugal prove . |
| 25 | But this does not prevent other functions from being present , lower down in the hierarchy , in texts in which the poetic function is dominant ; equally , the poetic function may be present in texts which are mainly expressive or referential . |
| 26 | The weakness of clauses expressly undertaking obligations is that they will not prevent other , more extensive obligations being imposed unless they are inconsistent with the implied obligation . |
| 27 | Although , as we have noted , women are much less likely than men to select back variants of /a/ , this generally lower level of use does not prevent individual women from varying their realization of /a/ , within the female norms , according to their social network structure . |
| 28 | Though analysts remain sceptical on whether interest rate cuts will lead to a rapid revival in the housing market , this did not prevent strong gains being made in the sector . |
| 29 | The Counter-Reformation did not prevent Italian scholars from making original contributions in classical scholarship , history , law , literary criticism , logic , mathematics , medicine , philology , and rhetoric . |
| 30 | This unstable situation did not prevent intense imperial resentment of Charles ' growing power . |