Example sentences of "did not prevent [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which did not prevent me from obtaining very good marks despite not handing in my theory works and the lack of studying before exams . |
| 2 | That did not prevent her from being thrown down a mineshaft to her death in 1918 . |
| 3 | This did not prevent her from becoming , likewise , totally seduced by his example . |
| 4 | Her ill health did not prevent her from painting , from being politically active in the communist movement nor from leading a rich life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Marx claimed that bureaucrats typically lacked initiative and imagination , though this did not prevent them from trying to expand their powers and privileges . |
| 10 | Any irritation Tolkien felt at this appropriation of his own imaginative world did not prevent him from doing his best for the book . |
| 11 | His administrative post did not prevent him from taking an active part in several engagements , including the bloody battle of Chrysler 's Farm . |
| 12 | Deafness , however , did not prevent him from going off to South Africa and taking part in the Boer War . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | This , however , did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His personal appreciation of Adam 's help , however , did not prevent him from strongly criticizing his cynical principle of teaching , by which ( according to John ) he cultivated an unnecessarily complicated approach to dialectic in order to enhance his own reputation ; and John took care to stress that Adam was not his teacher . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 " ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But this did not prevent it from acting as an effective agency of government . |