Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] not stop " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this did n't stop him , and other objectors , from effectively countering the basis for the diversity argument — the need to have a ( nuclear ) choice away from coal . |
| 2 | This did n't stop the rock press from gnashing its teeth and a prize was certainly in the offing for the writer who could effectively belittle the Morrissey figure . |
| 3 | This did n't stop the interview from re-surfacing two weeks later in Zigzag wherein Morrissey acknowledged his undying erotic passion for leather car seats , amongst other things … all fairly lightweight banter and all revolving , enticingly ( ? ) around Morrissey 's underlying eroticism . |
| 4 | Then Dad shot home the bolt , though this did n't stop us opening the window to see the end of the rumpus . |
| 5 | Of course , this did n't stop him from shamelessly flirting with and teasing the scores of solicitous museum officials that came to see him ! ’ |
| 6 | This did n't stop her , however , from loosing a stream of automatic fire across the water to the other side of the docks , where men were smashed backwards by the force of the impacts . |
| 7 | He was a quadraplegic , confined to a wheelchair , but this did n't stop him travelling all over the world . |
| 8 | However this did not stop us making lists of those quality ‘ prigs ’ we would have liked to eliminate . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Trained mind I might be supposed to have , but this did not stop me from losing my clothing coupons . |
| 12 | There was no way the police could hold Philip Drew , but this did not stop them following him . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | All this did not stop Alfred from being a Christian king ; indeed some of his recorded behaviour seems almost Quixotically forgiving . |
| 15 | The Keeper of the Shrine of Asuryan plucked out his eyes but even this did not stop the terrible visions . |
| 16 | Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers . |
| 17 | Even so , this did not stop the trouble . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yet this did not stop women artists coming to Surrealism in large numbers throughout the 1930s . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We were stranded in darkness , but this did not stop my progress , it merely hindered it . |
| 25 | Innocent III spent some months outside Rome , but this did not stop him doing justice . |
| 26 | My dad always used to say that we could not afford lunch , although , I have to say , this did not stop him eating it . |
| 27 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Yet this does not stop him being blunt about Rhoda the Rhino — otherwise known as Margaret Thatcher |