prevented,

That is, I mean he would have used the gas but was prevented,

The Guy Fawkes Song 1998

Cholera has killed 720 people and infected 8580 others in Zambia since November in an epidemic which could have been prevented,

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

When the sovereign States met in council, they, in truth and substance, and in a constitutional light, did not make, but prevented,

Address of Congress to the people of the Confederate States : joint resolution in relation to the war, Confederate States of America. Congress 1864

Our office is to alleviate the calamities that cannot be prevented,

A Charity Sermon. First Delivered in Salisbury, July 28; And Afterwards in Other Places in Rowan, and the Counties Adjoining; Particularly at Sugar's Creek, in Mecklenburg County, at the Opening of the Synod of the Carolinas, October 2: And Last, at the Meeting of the Hon. the General Assembly of North Carolina in Fayetteville, December, 1793. By the Rev. Samuel E. M'Corkle, D. D. Pastor of the Church at Thyatira and Salisbury in Rowan County, North-Carolina 1793

By this means the fall of the water would be entirely prevented,

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771