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Discover LudwigThe phrase "were prohibited to" is not grammatically correct or commonly used in written English.
Instead, the correct phrase is "were prohibited from." Example: The students were prohibited from bringing cell phones to school.
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They lived in the hospitals, were on call every other night and were prohibited to marry.
Cherry described how shocked the young teenager was when he first arrived in the still-segregated city of Lawrence, Kansas: after being treated like a star in his native Philadelphia, he now saw places black people were prohibited to enter.
Apart from the provided meals and drinks, subjects were prohibited to ingest anything else apart from tap water.
Furthermore, in NICU D parents were prohibited to eat or drink anything except water in the same room as their baby was cared for.
This minimum requirement failed to attract a large number of prospective nursing students for nursing being predominantly female and in Iran women were prohibited to engage in any social activities that required close contact with men.
RV-positive patients and their accompanying persons were cohorted on the ward in separate rooms with own bath rooms and were prohibited to use any facilities on the ward which may have offered the possibility to get in contact with other patients.
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Most of them understood the prohibition was prohibited to damage (29%), followed by to cut (19%), to take (13%), and others.
LONDON — "It should be prohibited to say which is the best player in the world.
A sign in a central building warns students in English: "It is prohibited to carry arms in the university.
But within one year I was prohibited to read any more by my doctor, since I was afflicted with an eye disease.
While scripts frequently called for aristocratic characters nobles or samurai it was prohibited to imitate the dress of either of these classes.
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