Sentence examples for had been preventing from inspiring English sources
He said Iraqi forces had been preventing people from entering or leaving the camp, including the wounded.
After three days of legal argument, Sir John Thomas, president of the Queen's Bench division, and Mr Justice Ouseley lifted injunctions that had been preventing the men's removal.
But this week, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau said issues that had been preventing the granting of approval had now been addressed.
"Legally, Chen Guangfu is a free man," Mr. Ding said, "but in reality guards had been preventing him from leaving his village".
Images from late November 2008 suggested that an ice bridge that had been preventing the remaining ice shelf from breaking away from the peninsula was threatening to collapse.
Mr. Lopez, who returned to the Philippines in December, said in an Internet interview that he had known a bounty was possible, but that his main concern had been preventing dumping, which he had also witnessed on other ships.
