Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] stop [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this did not stop women artists coming to Surrealism in large numbers throughout the 1930s . |
| 2 | All this did not stop Alfred from being a Christian king ; indeed some of his recorded behaviour seems almost Quixotically forgiving . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Workers in other public enterprises were also prevented from striking although this did not stop strikes by postal and railway workers . |
| 6 | Even that did not stop Pugh getting quizzical looks from the referee who asked about his age , so I told him that he was not the Pugh named as sub in the programme but the club mascot . |
| 7 | Although it was announced last November that the awards would be down to 1.5 per cent , that did not stop politicians and union leaders from condemning the Government 's action . |
| 8 | Actually Father Duryea , our contact , our man , always saw us right away ; but that did n't stop Hamilton hanging around for hours afterwards , in the waiting room . |
| 9 | Even so , some two hours later that did n't stop Paige from missing her footing completely and coming down heavily on her ankle . |
| 10 | The marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood , but that did n't stop Topaz from wanting and loving him . |
| 11 | Unix SVR4.0 , 4.1 , 4.2 , ES and MP are all UI reference technologies , but that did n't stop ICL plc doing its own multi-processing SVR4 implementation , Data General Corp working on DG/UX and SunSoft Inc developing its Solaris 2.0 desktop . |
| 12 | But that did n't stop Bush campaigning vigorously in six battleground states yesterday in a last-ditch effort to throw off the veil of defeat which looms over him — and warning Clinton to put his planned victory parade on hold . |