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The phrase "adequate to prevent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing measures or actions that are sufficient to stop or avert something from happening.
Example: "The safety measures implemented were adequate to prevent any accidents during the event."
Alternatives: "sufficient to stop" or "capable of preventing".
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Mr. Navarro's two fields are 70 and 100 meters from neighbors' farms, a distance often deemed adequate to prevent mixing.
A Verizon spokesman, Mark Marchand, said the commission's staff had found the company's procedures "adequate to prevent any significant misreporting".
From fracture mechanics point of view, fracture toughness of the material must be adequate to prevent the failure.
Industry executives complained Wednesday that the government was overreacting to the BP spill and called the new safeguards more than adequate to prevent another major spill.
He asserted that state-level regulations already in place were adequate to prevent the sort of nightmare situations that some environmentalists fear.
The submarines give Israel a secure second-strike capability, which deterrence theory predicts should be adequate to prevent a rational enemy from attacking.
One of the biggest mistakes parents make is to assume that a window with a screen is adequate to prevent a child from falling.
"I have come to learn, with the deepest of regrets, that the control measures I have followed in this extraordinary case were not adequate to prevent or uncover the scientific misconduct that occurred," he wrote in his e-mail message.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission expressed skepticism that this patch-up would be adequate to prevent a dangerous leak in the reactor, but given this plant's history, skepticism is hardly enough.
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However, the level of partial resistance is not adequate enough to prevent significant crop losses [ 22].
Will there be adequate safeguards to prevent abuse?
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