Example sentences of "[det] do not prevent " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not prevent the Family Planning Association in its Dublin and Cork clinics from providing contraceptives freely and students at University College , Dublin from installing a condom-dispensing machine in their Union building . |
| 2 | But this did not prevent Mrs Thatcher from exposing another potential problem in her Financial Times interview : accommodating a trading and reserve currency such as sterling within a mechanism where the Deutschemark has no serious challenger . |
| 3 | But this did not prevent claims being made for motivational research and the like as extravagant as those made for corn cures and patent all-purpose medicines by the pedlars and mountebanks of time immemorial . |
| 4 | I referred his valet to Miss Kenton , but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say : ‘ Butler ! |
| 5 | This did not prevent his deportation . |
| 6 | Dom Pérignon grew blind in his final years but this did not prevent — it rather enhanced — his passion for the art of winemaking . |
| 7 | The mortar men were not trained as Heavy Weapons Troops would be later in the war , but this did not prevent Sergeant Ramsey from getting off a bomb that appeared to go down the hotel chimney , reportedly causing a dozen or more casualties . |
| 8 | This did not prevent later generations of pacifists from taking the NCF as precisely such a model . |
| 9 | This did not prevent him falling off his chair and being sick on the Japanese premier at a state dinner in Japan earlier this year , an embarrassing incident captured by the TV cameras . |
| 10 | But this did not prevent assembly acceptance of the plan . |
| 11 | Although in no sense ‘ a povre Persoun of a Toun ’ this did not prevent him being ‘ also a lerned man , a clerk ’ . |
| 12 | This did not prevent him paying for the installation of a swimming pool to amuse his children who roamed around their new domain during the holidays . |
| 13 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 14 | But this did not prevent it from acting as an effective agency of government . |
| 15 | This did not prevent his offering Baldwin the Exchequer before he had kissed hands . |
| 16 | Although Colonel Newnham-Davis consistently pleaded for more varied menus and shorter meals , this did not prevent him from ordering and eating , with evident enjoyment and approval , what seems to-day a perfectly astounding meal . |
| 17 | On Poland , an arrangement was made whereby the Communists would form a joint administration with elements of the London government-in-exile , but this did not prevent the country 's long-term domination by Moscow . |
| 18 | This did not prevent her from becoming , likewise , totally seduced by his example . |
| 19 | This did not prevent Minton 's relationship with Susan Einzig becoming , for her , one of the most important in her life and his positive influence on her as an artist endures to this day . |
| 20 | There could be little agreement any longer on the nature of reality or truth , but this did not prevent a wide if vague consensus about the undesirability of dogmatism , superstition , parochialism , unexamined assumptions and unthinking lives . |
| 21 | They saw some ‘ family homes ’ which looked like ordinary mental hospital wards and although patients in some wards were referred to as ‘ guests , ’ this did not prevent them from being confined by locked doors . |
| 22 | This did not prevent his approach from becoming associated ( with some justification ) with a theory of interest groups . |
| 23 | This did not prevent him joining the revolt of Henry , third Earl of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , against the corrupt government of Queen Isabella [ q.v. ] and Roger Mortimer , first Earl of March [ q.v. ] , in 1328 . |
| 24 | His inability to grasp the intricacies of modern economics was due in large measure to limits of intellect and lack of appropriate training ( although , as we have noted in Chapter 5 , this did not prevent him from drafting , in 1939 , his " National Programme for Resurgence " ) . |
| 25 | Marx claimed that bureaucrats typically lacked initiative and imagination , though this did not prevent them from trying to expand their powers and privileges . |
| 26 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
| 27 | Yet this did not prevent a considerable proportion of headships of French missions going to outsiders — senators , prefects , colonial governors , soldiers ( again notably in the case of appointments to St Petersburg ) and even journalists . |
| 28 | This did not prevent subsequent British complaints that they had been let down by Washington . |
| 29 | Though analysts remain sceptical on whether interest rate cuts will lead to a rapid revival in the housing market , this did not prevent strong gains being made in the sector . |
| 30 | This does not prevent him from honouring English writing when it is honourable ; for instance Binyon 's Dante , Rouse 's Homer , the early books of Adrian Stokes , and the poems of Basil Bunting . |