Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] to prevent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filtration alone — however good — is not enough to prevent the dreaded ‘ green water ’ . |
| 2 | A favourable monsoon season and a record harvest in 1988-89 of 172,000,000 tonnes of food grain were not enough to prevent the need to continue to import rice and wheat in order to maintain distribution and to provide food for the country 's growing population ; however , the improvement in the agricultural sector did contribute to a major increase in gross domestic product ( GDP ) , of 9 per cent in real terms in 1988-89 , helped by increases in industrial and manufacturing production . |
| 3 | Summoning Russians back from abroad proved to be a mistake in view of the fact that the 80,000 " returnees " disseminated information about the startling developments in Paris , Berlin and Vienna , but the news was not enough to prevent the Russian Empire from remaining the one continental power to escape the consequences of the " springtime of the nations " . |
| 4 | GRAHAM Gooch 's record-breaking feat was not enough to prevent England messing up a match-winning position in the sixth Cornhill Test yesterday . |
| 5 | There seems to be a very uneven development of user education programmes across the country at the moment , hence a need not only to prevent libraries from ‘ reinventing the wheel ’ in this area , but more important for them to be able to obtain advice on the ‘ best ’ available tried and tested programmes and methodologies . |
| 6 | This downward mobility is now being reinforced by educational changes that operate not only to prevent the most disadvantaged children from benefiting from the increased degree of upward social mobility , but also prevent many of them entering the labour market at all . |
| 7 | In the summer , the solar system should provide all the heat necessary ; at other times of the year , some ‘ topping-up ’ will be necessary and , in the winter , precautions have to be taken not only to prevent the solar part of the system freezing ( antifreeze is usually added to the water in this part of the system ) but also to prevent the whole system working in reverse which would mean that the domestic hot water cylinder was heating the solar collector ! |
| 8 | His purpose was not only to prevent his own partisans from uniting to oust him , but also to use the fact that there were differences between them to strengthen his own position . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , local authorities have power not only to prevent developments which would clash with amenity ( for example , the siting of a repair garage in a residential area ) but also to reject badly designed developments which are not intrinsically harmful . |
| 10 | Partly penned by the South Shields linguist and folklore buff Moira Tatem ( Tatem , that is , not Totem ) it is sufficient not only to prevent you undertaking a midnight jaunt through graveyards but from ever getting out of bed again . |
| 11 | These measures were designed not just to prevent Germany waging war , but to cripple German industry . |
| 12 | The overwhelming climate of secrecy has long been encouraged and supported by the Official Secrets Acts 1911–1920 which have been used not simply to prevent disclosure of security information but to prevent the disclosure of all information which governments have chosen not to disclose . |
| 13 | It is not there to prevent crime ; it is there to promote the work of the police . |
| 14 | MATTHEW Syed , the 22-year-old Oxford University student , won both his table tennis games for England against France at Brentwood but it was n't enough to prevent France from winning 3–2 . |