"prevent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Search patterns include movement against room walls (to prevent rescuers from becoming lost or disoriented) and methodical searches of specific areas by designated teams.
- Thick smoke and dangerous levels of carbon monoxide prevented rescuers from reaching trapped men.
- Doctors, nurses and patients at Charity Hospital had to plead for help for more than 100 patients, who were later evacuated after violence had earlier prevented rescuers from getting in.
- But a Navy spokesman, Gerry Malabanan, told Agence France-Presse that large waves and heavy rain had prevented rescuers from reaching some survivors.
- The explosion early Monday trapped the 13 miners more than two miles inside the mountainside, releasing toxic carbon monoxide that prevented rescuers from reaching them for more than 40 hours.
- The blast, which happened at the Dulka mine at Dolná Súča, Slovakia, caused an underground fire that prevented rescuers from reaching the trapped men.
- Fires prevented rescuers from reaching the heart of the scene.
- He said the strategy was being tried because carbon monoxide and methane gas were preventing rescuers from venturing inside.
- But the opinion was general that his body had been cremated in the hot flames that had prevented rescuers from searching the automobile.
- Instead he raised his voice in the call of distress common to his tribe, adding to it the warning which would prevent would-be rescuers from running into the clutches of Sabor.
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