Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high-cost economies of the EC can not insulate themselves from the world outside — from the more flexible economies of the Pacific Rim and North America . |
| 2 | The state 's farmers and bee-keepers might not have realised that they were coping with an externality , but that had not stopped them from organising a market . |
| 3 | Doors and bolts had been fixed , but in a three-month period it was said that ‘ 14 dozen locks ’ had been broken , the children had burned down the door , and even iron gates had not stopped them from gaining access to the roof and throwing stones on people below . |
| 4 | Having her daughter has not stopped her from doing more or less what she had planned , but has spurred her on to better results . |
| 5 | Denying it had not stopped it from growing . |
| 6 | Try to meet them in non-political situations and when you do not want anything from them . |
| 7 | Being infected should not add to her credibility , while not being so should not disqualify her from comment , she says . |
| 8 | So , while you may well have some trait or peculiarity about her that will give her a mark of distinction , this must be something that does not disqualify her from maximum general sympathy . |
| 9 | But this does not disqualify them from using the word , any more than the English who displaced the ancient Britons are disqualified from continuing to use the name ‘ Britain ’ ( no doubt to the irritation of their southern neighbours , the Bretons of Bretagne ) . |
| 10 | For this reason , the fact that three of the forty women had paid domestic help does not disqualify them from the title ‘ housewife ’ . |
| 11 | Thirdly , and consequentially , I argued that the elements of harmful consequences liability which are exhibited by the criminal law do not disqualify it from the status of positive moral order , because conventional morality ( as opposed to the critical morality of Kant or Smith , for example ) incorporates a notion of moral luck and indeed our ordinary moral attitudes would be unrecognizable without some such idea . |
| 12 | Clive wondered why they had not heard anything from downstairs . |
| 13 | If so , why is that we have not heard anything from all those other civilizations out there ? |
| 14 | So in sense then that er the extent of your injuries really would not debar you from working offshore as far as you understand ? |
| 15 | Do not regard me from ( the standpoint of ) your infirmity ; to you 't is night , to me that same night is morningtide . |
| 16 | Even I did not recognise him from his actions . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 18 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 19 | They do not know one from another . |
| 20 | She takes a short cut down Avondale Road , and passes the five-bedroom detached house of Vic Wilcox without a glance , for she does not know him from Adam , and the house is outwardly no different from any of the other modern executive dwellings in this exclusive residential district : red brick and white paint , ‘ Georgian ’ windows , a tarmac drive and double garage , a burglar alarm prominently displayed on the front elevation . ) |
| 21 | Electoral law does not forbid him from describing himself as Conservative but his rival , Mr Gerry Malone , will describe himself on the ballot paper as The Conservative Party Candidate . |
| 22 | You 'll not beat it from me . ’ |
| 23 | I was horrified to find out later that in fact he had not collected her from school but from the police station . |
| 24 | While large firms have continued to increase their capital/labour ratios thus widening the productivity gap with smaller firms , this has certainly not prevented them from persuading their suppliers to improve the quality of their equipment . |
| 25 | Yet it has not prevented me from having a very attractive family and being successful in my work . |
| 26 | ’ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the Commission 's disquiet has not prevented it from agreeing the designation . |
| 28 | He considered that English , seen as a form of study rather than the practice of cultivated reading , had still not freed itself from the criticism of lacking intellectual strenuousness . |
| 29 | We can not exclude them from our notion of property or deny that in a sense , at any rate , he is the owner of them . |
| 30 | 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 . |