Example sentences of "[not/n't] prevent [pron] [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That , however , does not prevent us from drawing particular , limited conclusions from such ‘ isolation ’ experiments . |
| 5 | This did , not prevent her from becoming engaged , in 1956 , to Edgar Lintot , who was about to leave Cambridge to take up a pre-registration post at St Michael 's Hospital in Lewisham . |