"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- However, the rock slide may not prevent the safe passage of the train.
- However, the mouth of the river was obstructed to prevent passage.
- This means that there is always water in the pipe preventing the passage of anything from the other direction.
- The disagreement so divided Congress in 2002 that for months it prevented passage of the bill to create the department.
- The monarch's arrival would stop all debate and prevent passage of the Address.
- The term was also used by the military for barriers set up on roads specifically to prevent the passage of horses.
- Only in full spate did the river prevent passage beneath that arch.
- For a month the investigation into these deals has tied up Japan's parliament, preventing the passage of a budget.
- I shall nail some up now, to show, to prevent passage, if I may.
- Wide chasms, where the rock had split apart, prevented passage in others.
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