Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the Commission 's disquiet has not prevented it from agreeing the designation . |
| 3 | Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite not handing in my theory works and the lack of studying before exams . |
| 4 | Melody 's delight and incredulity were genuine , but it did not prevent her from taking the food and drink from his hands and bolting it as though she were starving . |
| 5 | This did not prevent her from becoming , likewise , totally seduced by his example . |
| 6 | Marx claimed that bureaucrats typically lacked initiative and imagination , though this did not prevent them from trying to expand their powers and privileges . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1929 Nizan 's acquiescence to party discipline did not prevent him from exploring the possibility of working for the party at the edge of the class divide . |
| 10 | He even claimed to have been reading a book on cybernetics at the time of the revolution , but his scholarly interests did not prevent him from amassing enormous wealth by the standards of his fellow citizens . |
| 11 | He told the American writer , John Malcolm Brinnin , that he had learned , from working on the film production , more about writing for the theatre than he had learned in the theatre itself , but that did not prevent him from vetoing the idea , proposed by Sherek , that The Cocktail Party should also be filmed . |
| 12 | His administrative post did not prevent him from taking an active part in several engagements , including the bloody battle of Chrysler 's Farm . |
| 13 | But like so many of his contemporaries , he had a selective vision of who " the people " were which did not prevent him from referring on occasion , like Burke , to the " swinish multitude " . |
| 14 | But , since no one he had met in Wimbledon Islamic circles seemed to use it , it did not prevent him from holding his head up in the staffroom . |
| 15 | Any irritation Tolkien felt at this appropriation of his own imaginative world did not prevent him from doing his best for the book . |
| 16 | Deafness , however , did not prevent him from going off to South Africa and taking part in the Boer War . |
| 17 | His educational achievements , lack of a major trade-union base , and personal idiosyncrasies inhibited his effectiveness as a labour leader , but did not prevent him from making significant contributions to his class and time . |
| 18 | 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 " ) . |
| 19 | On his return to Trinidad in 1948 , Eric Williams almost immediately got involved in public appearances at which he gave his opinions on historical topics concerning the West Indies and while his work for the Caribbean Commission strictly forbade any political involvement , it did not prevent him from opening a window on the West Indian past . |
| 20 | His loyalty had stood him in good stead after the restoration , and he was now a commissioner of police for religious conformity — a post which did not prevent him from working in any other area which Horemheb , through the king , saw fit to appoint him to . |
| 21 | This , however , did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries . |
| 22 | But this did not prevent it from acting as an effective agency of government . |
| 23 | He underwent a minor operation on his elbow during the summer , but that did n't prevent him from fulfilling a fitness programme with the new season in mind . |
| 24 | An American actor called Spalding Gray had a bit part , but this did n't prevent him from developing a one-man act about the making of the film called Swimming to Cambodia which was made into a film in 1987 , directed by Jonathan Demme . |
| 25 | It did n't prevent him from running a successful office , despite the lack of support from some staff ’ . |
| 26 | Her mother said it was stimulating to be upset , and maybe it was , but that did n't prevent her from preferring the solace of the old wisdom . |
| 27 | ’ Melissa was about to point out that Angy 's tender heart had not prevented her from flaunting Rick 's ring as if it were her own , nor had she intervened to protect Barney from hurt , but she merely said , ‘ It was enough to make anyone angry . ’ |
| 28 | Well , with this mental disease I have , I think of the many other artists suffering mentally and I tell myself that this does not prevent one from exercising the painter 's profession as if nothing was amiss . |
| 29 | Ants , like moths , only produce silk during their larval stage , but this does not prevent them from using it for nest-building . |
| 30 | But his claim to be able to represent the three major philosophical schools of the Vedānta does not prevent him from regarding Truth ( Satya ) as the most correct and most fully significant term that could be used for God . |