Exterior doors would need locking mechanisms that bar entry from the outside.

The aim was to permit these two batteries, only just over 2 km apart, to bar entry to the roadstead.

Barriers had been removed from the front of his house but security officials were still barring entry.

Candidates completing the civilian service were then barred entry to the police force, as this would contradict one's claims of being a pacifist.

The porter tells him that he must be barred entry to satisfy justice.