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"Forbidden from"
Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests". Now, that's one I hadn't heard before! -- Molly Mockford I think I've been too long on my own, but the little green goblin that lives under the sink says I'm OK - and he's never wrong, so I must be! (My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)
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english in [nq:1]Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests". [/nq] to forbid sb (from doing sth) = to order sb not to do sth; to order that sth must not be done: "He forbade them from mentioning the subject again. " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary) -- Enrico C ~ No native speaker
- english in [nq:1]Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests".
- [/nq] to forbid sb (from doing sth) = to order sb not to do sth; to order that sth must not be done: "He forbade them from mentioning the subject again.
- " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary) -- Enrico C ~ No native speaker
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Molly Mockford | uk.culture.language.english in
[nq:1]Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests". Now, that's one I hadn't heard before![/nq]
to forbid sb (from doing sth) = to order sb not to do sth; to order that sth must not be done: "He forbade them from mentioning the subject again. " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
-- Enrico C ~ No native
[nq:1]Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests". Now, that's one I hadn't heard before![/nq]
to forbid sb (from doing sth) = to order sb not to do sth; to order that sth must not be done: "He forbade them from mentioning the subject again. " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
-- Enrico C ~ No native
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[nq:1]Molly Mockford uk.culture.language.english in [/nq]
[nq:2]Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests". Now, that's one I hadn't heard before![/nq]
[nq:1]to forbid sb (from doing sth) = to order sb not to do sth; to order that sth must not be done: "He forbade them from mentioning the subject again. " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)[/nq]
[nq:1]Molly Mockford uk.culture.language.english in [/nq]
[nq:2]Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests". Now, that's one I hadn't heard before![/nq]
[nq:1]to forbid sb (from doing sth) = to order sb not to do sth; to order that sth must not be done: "He forbade them from mentioning the subject again. " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)[/nq]
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[nq:1]Molly Mockford uk.culture.language.english in [/nq]
[nq:2]Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests". Now, that's one I hadn't heard before![/nq]
[nq:1]to forbid sb (from doing sth) = to order sb not to do sth; to order that sth must not be done: "He forbade them from mentioning the subject again. " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)[/nq]
As a nat
[nq:2]Just heard on TV - "The team is forbidden from carrying out DNA tests". Now, that's one I hadn't heard before![/nq]
[nq:1]to forbid sb (from doing sth) = to order sb not to do sth; to order that sth must not be done: "He forbade them from mentioning the subject again. " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)[/nq]
As a nat
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[nq:1]As a native BrE speaker I would accept the pattern "forbid to do" and "forbid from doing". Please don't ask me to justify this![/nq]
Fair enough! I'll go back to sulking about those who confuse "compulsion" and "compunction", which is IMHO the new "flouting"/"flaunting". -- Molly Mockford I think I've been too long on my own, but the little green goblin that live
[nq:1]As a native BrE speaker I would accept the pattern "forbid to do" and "forbid from doing". Please don't ask me to justify this![/nq]
Fair enough! I'll go back to sulking about those who confuse "compulsion" and "compunction", which is IMHO the new "flouting"/"flaunting". -- Molly Mockford I think I've been too long on my own, but the little green goblin that live
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[nq:2]Molly Mockford uk.culture.language.english in to forbid sb ... from mentioning the subject again. " (Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)[/nq]
[nq:1]As a native BrE speaker I would accept the pattern "forbid to do" and "forbid from doing". Please don't ask me to justify this![/nq]
How do you justify that? m.
[nq:1]As a native BrE speaker I would accept the pattern "forbid to do" and "forbid from doing". Please don't ask me to justify this![/nq]
How do you justify that? m.
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