Below you will find example sentences with "prevent people". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Prevent People in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: prevent
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 32.9 words

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "prevent people" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 32.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and to prevent people from selling, avenue to prevent people living in, getting, sick and public stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with young people, homeless people, indigenous people, help prevent, prevent further and prevent future, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with prevent people

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Even though the city has erected barriers to prevent people from using the bridge, people still use it. (18 words)

Despite the benefits of financial inclusion, there are still significant barriers that prevent people from accessing financial services. (18 words)

Deepfakes might be fought using states’ publicity rights laws, which prevent people from using others’ images in ways they didn’t consent to. (23 words)

No other agency that responded to the emergency that night asked whether the lagoon had a barrier in place to prevent people and machines from falling in or, if there was a barrier, whether it was strong enough to hold back a 6,700-pound skid steer. (47 words)

I thought all this social distancing to flatten the curve wasn't necessarily to prevent people from getting sick, but to prevent people from getting sick all at once and overwhelming the hospitals (which seems to be close to happening in NYC anyway)? (43 words)

But the fact that we have the entire social system set up, not to maybe prevent people from sharing physical items, but certainly not to facilitate it on an institutional level, has had massive consequences for the planet and for our society. (42 words)

I thought all this social distancing to flatten the curve wasn't necessarily to prevent people from getting sick, but to prevent people from getting sick all at once and overwhelming the hospitals (which seems to be close to happening in NYC anyway)? (43 words)

Example sentences (20)

I thought all this social distancing to flatten the curve wasn't necessarily to prevent people from getting sick, but to prevent people from getting sick all at once and overwhelming the hospitals (which seems to be close to happening in NYC anyway)?

While the vaccines so far submitted for approval seem to prevent people from getting sick, it is still unclear whether they prevent people from picking up the virus entirely - and crucially - passing it to others.

Prevent targets all forms of “extremism”, and public sector workers - including doctors, teachers and nursery staff - to report signs of potential radicalisation and "prevent people being drawn into terrorism".

Meanwhile, the plan calls for more support for people living along Roosevelt Avenue to prevent people living in “abject poverty” from being extorted and sex-trafficked.

Our main goal here is practical: to prevent people from paying lawyers until the application window opens, and help people to prepare their paperwork for when it does.

Even though the city has erected barriers to prevent people from using the bridge, people still use it.

He said, “I’m not sure what the government needs now is a bill or an idea to shut down people or prevent people from being able to express themselves or express their freedom of thought or information.

This will hopefully grab people’s attention at night when it’s dark and prevent people from falling into the manhole,” said the concerned resident.

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When the law changed to prevent people from smoking in public, there was a public outcry but we haven't actually heard about people getting charged or anything terrible happening to them.

The APC Chairman in Orile Agege, Prince Sunday Ajayi explained that the empowerment was carried out to alleviate the suffering of the people and to prevent people from selling their conscience to the elected and the appointed for a token.

In the following years, in order to prevent people from rebelling, the Qing court instituted a ban on migration to Taiwan, especially the migration of Hakka people from Guangdong province, which led Hokkien to become a prestige language in Taiwan.

But he also highlighted the need to more to prevent people, especially children, causing ASB in the first place and so welcomed news schemes that have enjoyed success elsewhere in Ashfield are now looking at branching out to Hucknall.

But the fact that we have the entire social system set up, not to maybe prevent people from sharing physical items, but certainly not to facilitate it on an institutional level, has had massive consequences for the planet and for our society.

Deepfakes might be fought using states’ publicity rights laws, which prevent people from using others’ images in ways they didn’t consent to.

Despite the benefits of financial inclusion, there are still significant barriers that prevent people from accessing financial services.

He said the decree would give authorities a number of legal tools, including the power to prevent people from traveling into dangerous areas and ensure access to accommodations for evacuees and heavy equipment for fighting the fires.

Hotovely, who has previously been called 'zionist scum'harassed by angry mobs on Britain's streets, said that whilst we live in a democracy, freedom of speech needed to be limited to prevent people spouting hatred.

Ironic that there is a government drive to get additional voters on the electoral roll, but another government drive to prevent people being added to the list of eligible voters by not processing any status applications.

Netflix recently introduced an extra fee to allow more than one household to share the same account in a move to prevent people from sharing accounts.

No other agency that responded to the emergency that night asked whether the lagoon had a barrier in place to prevent people and machines from falling in or, if there was a barrier, whether it was strong enough to hold back a 6,700-pound skid steer.

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