Sentence examples for forbid to from inspiring English sources

“forbid to” is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate a prohibition. For example, “The teacher forbid the students to bring food into the classroom.”.

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The selection rules forbid TO phonons for this geometry, although the high N.A. objective used has wide collection angle and leads to deviation from perfect backscattering geometry and can thus induce the appearance of the TO mode. Figure 2 Raman spectra and images.

Start thinking about us as your future neighbors...try, God forbid, to respect us".

"It's not done, God forbid, to laugh, to mock, to hurt, to pain anyone".

To Queens via the G Train or, God forbid, to south Brooklyn?

The construction "forbid from doing something" is widespread, but in formal usage "forbid to" is still preferred: forbid, prohibit.

Make no mistake: The prospect of a defiant Rodriguez leading the Yankees into the playoffs or, heaven forbid, to another World Series must haunt Bud Selig's most harrowing nightmares.

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It was forbidden to refuse.

So universities are forbidden to "over-recruit".

He has been forbidden to leave Ukraine.

He has been forbidden to leave China.

The language seems equally forbidding to many.

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