Example sentences of "[det] do not stop " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Trained mind I might be supposed to have , but this did not stop me from losing my clothing coupons . |
| 5 | There was no way the police could hold Philip Drew , but this did not stop them following him . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | All this did not stop Alfred from being a Christian king ; indeed some of his recorded behaviour seems almost Quixotically forgiving . |
| 8 | The Keeper of the Shrine of Asuryan plucked out his eyes but even this did not stop the terrible visions . |
| 9 | Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers . |
| 10 | Even so , this did not stop the trouble . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yet this did not stop women artists coming to Surrealism in large numbers throughout the 1930s . |
| 13 | The following day was a total white-out , although this did not stop the intrepid skiers , as we headed to the top of Roc des 3 Marches and down into Meribel Mottaret . |
| 14 | The 1970 Conservative manifesto , A Better Tomorrow stated : " we will stop further nationalisation " but this did not stop a Conservative Government nationalising Rolls Royce just 8 months into office . |
| 15 | With his family , he was a strong supporter of the Shaftesbury Society ( though this did not stop his widow owning a pub next to one of the mills ) . |
| 16 | The Hygiene supervisors felt as though the planes would land on their heads , but this did not stop them carrying out a thorough and hygienic job . |
| 17 | We were stranded in darkness , but this did not stop my progress , it merely hindered it . |
| 18 | Innocent III spent some months outside Rome , but this did not stop him doing justice . |
| 19 | My dad always used to say that we could not afford lunch , although , I have to say , this did not stop him eating it . |
| 20 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
| 21 | But this did not stop Yeltsin from making Grachev a hero and even proposing ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister . |
| 22 | But this does not stop Abse constructing an elaborate thesis based on Thatcher 's ‘ sphincter morality ’ , for which her mother , Beatrice , should really take the blame : ‘ Thatcher succeeded in initiating the electorate into a new form of gambling : her personal need to end the earlier constraints which she had endured , outlawing the joys of shitting and coprophilia , drove her to open the doors of the Stock Exchange , and end its exclusivity . ’ |
| 23 | Yet this does not stop him being blunt about Rhoda the Rhino — otherwise known as Margaret Thatcher |
| 24 | This does not stop us using the olfactory or tactile channels but we are restricted by social norms in how we use them . |
| 25 | This does not stop me from wishing , sometimes , for a sight of you all , or for the feel of the cold , wet winds of Edinburgh ! |
| 26 | This does not stop motorists damaging the environment but only stops them destroying it quite so violently . |
| 27 | This does not stop the play from being brilliantly funny : but it is comedy that appeals to one 's taste for cruelty , a form of dramatic pugilism . ’ |
| 28 | But this does not stop people , as human animals , having evolved with deeply held and genetically transmitted territorial instincts . |
| 29 | But this does not stop people instinctively protecting themselves and kin substitutes . |
| 30 | Every country has its own system for using frequencies , and they have to think about each other — radio waves , after all do not stop at national boundaries and without international collaboration there could be interference and general chaos . |