Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] prevent " in BNC.
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| 31 | They come in and follow it up rather than preventing it . |
| 32 | ‘ Prevention ’ is recast in terms of preventing harm , preventing offending and preventing the need for compulsory intervention in families ' lives through court orders : but no longer as preventing children being ‘ looked after ’ on their parents ' behalf . |
| 33 | His aims were ‘ to prevent mental illusions due to false ideas from within and to prevent false teaching from other fellows ’ . |
| 34 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The fuse would destroy itself , the gunpowder explode , poor Cosmas 's legs would be shattered , and even if he wanted to , the fire spread so quickly as to prevent his escape . |
| 37 | She may feel more in control if she takes her bill herself to the Department of Social Security , having been guided by the adviser that she should ask them about the ‘ fuel direct ’ scheme that will debit her benefits automatically and prevent disconnection . |
| 38 | Be pro-active now and prevent the problems arising tomorrow . |
| 39 | We need to ensure people receive proper help and counselling , both to deal with abuse now and to prevent it in the future , ’ said Chris Cullen , who holds the SSMH chair in learning difficulties at St Andrews University . |
| 40 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 41 | That 's what we 're doing and I ca n't see anything here that prevents er , total cooperation between A the police , B the ambulance service and C the fire services . |
| 42 | The wing unstalls immediately and prevents the spin from developing . |
| 43 | In so doing , he avenged a 16–13 defeat by Parrott at Preston a year ago and prevented the 28-year-old Liverpudlian from knocking Hendry off the top of the world rankings . |
| 44 | The fixing of the amounts of compensation made it very difficult for the investors to refuse and it was aimed at defending the DTI from outright criticism as well as preventing public uproar , he said . |
| 45 | Such a lie is unkind because it keeps false hope alive , as well as preventing the child from coming to terms with the parting and the inevitable grief . |
| 46 | This fear of fear will both provoke further symptoms as well as preventing the existing ones from diminishing naturally . |
| 47 | Active hobbies provide physical occupation allowing the mind a break from other pressures , while hobbies requiring concentration can also divert the mind as well as preventing boredom and providing mental stimulation . |
| 48 | As well as preventing development which is not acceptable . |
| 49 | As well as preventing cruelty , Nick has also made suggestions to improve conditions in the market . |
| 50 | In 1972 , a strike picket held a placard in front of a vehicle on a highway , urging the driver not to work at a site nearby and preventing him from proceeding along the highway . |
| 51 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 52 | Just over three years ago Dr Helmut Kohl , federal chancellor , declaimed in the remains of the Reichstag that the Wall , stretching beyond the former capital of a united Germany around 100 miles in length , was ‘ a monument to inhumanity which tears families apart and prevents human contact . ’ |