Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [not/n't] stop " in BNC.

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1 Being deaf has n't stopped Karen fulfilling her ambition to be a hairdresser .
2 That has not stopped other European countries ( such as France ) from installing regulators that resemble the SEC more than the SIB .
3 They may have nothing to offer , but that has not stopped them holding press conferences or making public statements .
4 Fare-fixing ( two or more airlines fixing a price for a route ) has always been forbidden by the EC , but that has n't stopped it .
5 But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books .
6 This has not stopped people trying .
7 In fact only one DCSL has a teaching qualification , but this has not stopped others from becoming fully involved in curricular discussions in project schools .
8 But this has not stopped the two companies , conscious of their high public profile , from starting to sell the deal to the viewers as well as the money men .
9 But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again .
10 I notice this has n't stopped her entering this week .
11 This has n't stopped me admiring , respecting and feeling affection for Steffi .
12 But this did n't stop him , and other objectors , from effectively countering the basis for the diversity argument — the need to have a ( nuclear ) choice away from coal .
13 This did n't stop the rock press from gnashing its teeth and a prize was certainly in the offing for the writer who could effectively belittle the Morrissey figure .
14 This did n't stop the interview from re-surfacing two weeks later in Zigzag wherein Morrissey acknowledged his undying erotic passion for leather car seats , amongst other things … all fairly lightweight banter and all revolving , enticingly ( ? ) around Morrissey 's underlying eroticism .
15 Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus .
16 Of course , this did n't stop him from shamelessly flirting with and teasing the scores of solicitous museum officials that came to see him ! ’
17 This did n't stop her , however , from loosing a stream of automatic fire across the water to the other side of the docks , where men were smashed backwards by the force of the impacts .
18 He was a quadraplegic , confined to a wheelchair , but this did n't stop him travelling all over the world .
19 However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate .
20 Fortunately this did not stop the women from trying , and Basnett , senior lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick , describes in some detail the individual practitioners who set about the task .
21 This did not stop West Indies taking a firm grip on the match , as Greenidge reached 5,000 Test runs and Richards 6,000 , warming up for his achievement in the next match with 87. 312 all out was hardly the big total they would have wanted , but it was quite enough .
22 Trained mind I might be supposed to have , but this did not stop me from losing my clothing coupons .
23 There was no way the police could hold Philip Drew , but this did not stop them following him .
24 And this did not stop with the Reformation for , ‘ by virtue of the very generous pensions they were granted when they surrendered their houses to the Crown , ex-abbots possessed ample means to found chantries … or to make bequests for soul-masses after death ’ .
25 All this did not stop Alfred from being a Christian king ; indeed some of his recorded behaviour seems almost Quixotically forgiving .
26 The Keeper of the Shrine of Asuryan plucked out his eyes but even this did not stop the terrible visions .
27 Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers .
28 Even so , this did not stop the trouble .
29 This workshop had only five participants , but this did not stop a lively exchange of views which did n't necessarily stick to the questions asked by the organisers of the conference .
30 Yet this did not stop women artists coming to Surrealism in large numbers throughout the 1930s .
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