Example sentences of "[not/n't] prevent they [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While large firms have continued to increase their capital/labour ratios thus widening the productivity gap with smaller firms , this has certainly not prevented them from persuading their suppliers to improve the quality of their equipment . |
| 2 | Ants , like moths , only produce silk during their larval stage , but this does not prevent them from using it for nest-building . |
| 3 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 4 | Marx claimed that bureaucrats typically lacked initiative and imagination , though this did not prevent them from trying to expand their powers and privileges . |
| 5 | Will Thorne — MP , trade unionist and patriot — declared that the patriotism of West Ham socialists would not prevent them from taking a strong political stance on relief questions ( SE 15 August 14 ) . |
| 6 | There was a warm welcome from the people of Barbados , but their sympathy did not prevent them from preparing a pitch to suit the fast bowlers when the Test took place . |
| 7 | But the existence of these functions does not mean that the towns depended on them exclusively and it did not prevent them from acquiring others from the normal expected range . |
| 8 | I understand his point , but many women have written to me asking us specifically not to prevent them from working on Sundays . |