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Example sentences for "prevented from"

  • If it should be more convenient or profitable for a workman to receive payment for his labour partly or wholly in goods, why should he be prevented from doing so?

  • Whatsoever evil it is possible for man to do for the advancement of his own private and personal interest that evil sooner or later he will do, unless by some means or other, intentional or otherwise, he be prevented from doing it.

  • The Nonconformist members, in debating the Burials Bill, had expressed the pure Liberal doctrine that no man should be prevented from exercising a public right by his opinions on matters of conscience.

  • Everywhere the good is kept back, even if some of the bad is prevented from development.

  • During granulation, the dough must be prevented from sticking, by using a little of the dry compound powder.

  • When wainscot requires scouring, it should be done from the top downwards, and the soda be prevented from running on the uncleaned part as much as possible, or marks will appear after the whole is finished.

  • Acetylene plants must be prevented from freezing by erection in frost- free rooms, or by the employment of a heating apparatus or other suitable appliance.

  • In washing flannels it is recommended that they should only be put into warm water, by which method their colour will be preserved, and they will be prevented from shrinking.

  • He has shown that any organic liquid may be prevented from fermenting or putrefying if it be heated under pressure to about 266 deg.

  • A represents the bearing of the feed screw of the lathe, and B b a sleeve, a sliding fit upon A, prevented from revolving by the pin h, while still having liberty to move endways.

  • Piece K, and therefore L, is prevented from rotating by a spline in K, into which spline the pin M projects.

  • For they said that he ought not to be prevented from returning to Antonius, and they proposed an amendment to my proposition of not receiving him.

  • The celebration of the mass was not to be obstructed, nor was anyone to be prevented from hearing it.

  • Finally, in 1541, Luther purchased a small house near his residence at the Convent, fearing that he would have to give up the latter entirely for the work of fortification, and thus be prevented from leaving it to his wife.

  • The hernial sac ought in the first place to be fixed by the fingers of the assistant placed in the bottom of it, so that it may be prevented from sliding up along with the contents.

  • Surfaces opposed to each other, and naturally separate, may be prevented from uniting by dressing interposed; and contraction of joints is to be guarded against by keeping the limb extended by splints and bandages.

  • Thus a State may by a convention be obliged to allow the passage of troops of a neighbouring State, or may in the interest of a neighbouring State be prevented from fortifying a certain town near the frontier.

  • It is not necessary to enumerate all the rules of Municipal Law which a State must possess, and all those rules it is prevented from having.

  • Is the order to turn the capstan or windlass till the paul may be put in, by which it is prevented from coming up, and is something similar to belay, applied to a running rope.

  • The situation of a ship which is moored so taut by her cables, extending from the hawse to two distant anchors, as to be prevented from swinging to the wind or tide.

  • A vessel so surrounded by ice as to be prevented from proceeding on her voyage.

  • The former may be prevented from seeding by clipping back frequently, while the latter remain in the soil, increase from year to year, and injure the plants by crowding.

  • Should the conditions be found so favorable to the growth of the plant that it persists in growing where it is not wanted, it will soon cease to appear, if prevented from going to seed.

  • When mammoth clover is neither pastured nor mown early in the season, when grown for seed some kinds of weeds may be prevented from going to seed in it by cutting them off with the scythe.

  • If the wound heals so that the chyle is prevented from escaping, a fluctuating swelling may form beneath the scar; in course of time it gradually disappears.

  • The sinuses associated with empyema are prevented from healing by the rigidity of the chest wall, and will only close after an operation which admits of the cavity being obliterated.

  • The little squirrel buries the acorn in the ground for winter provender, and sows an oak, if prevented from returning to the spot.

  • But the Esquimaux has, underneath his skin, a thick coating of fat, by which the internal heat of the body is prevented from escaping.

  • But why should soot be prevented from accumulating in flakes at the bottom and sides of kettles and saucepans?

  • But it not infrequently happens that dirt or grease gets between the levers and causes two or more to stick together, in which case one of them is lifted too high and the bolt is prevented from operating.

  • However, the protector could be prevented from acting by a method used by the inventor himself for another purpose, viz.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    billy goat; brilliant light; each hill; fall short; good handful; grows naturally; half thick; house are many mansions; hundredth part; many bees; modern life; must look; postal savings; prevented from; rather have; room full; should serve; singular instance; social workers; this wise; well drained; will pardon