'preclude development' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to say that something blocks or stops something else from happening. For example: "The harsh economic conditions in the region preclude development of innovative new products."
Blocking the Keystone project will not reduce American dependence on imported oil, preclude development of Canada's oil sands, or have any meaningful impact on climate change.
– There was a strong consensus that diversity around the world – in metrics, government approaches, cultural differences, etc. – will long preclude development of common indices of wellbeing.
Highly disparate molecular profiles of spatially separated tumor areas within the same tumor may preclude development of molecularly targeted therapies based on single tumor biopsies.
Because they preclude development, national monuments are also critically important for ecological protection.
The well known sequence requirements of "canonical triplex" formation have been heretofore understood to preclude development of molecular diagnostic methods whereby base pairs in stable heteropolymeric duplex samples may be assayed with base specific resolution using third strand probes.
One advantage of this generic approach may be the ability to predict outcomes in less common cancers where limited data might preclude development of specific models.
Ranch decision-making process diversity within these environments precludes development of a single "best" strategy to manage livestock grazing.
While siRNA knockdown of gene expression is a promising strategy to treat such KRAS "addicted" tumors in the clinic, the lack of effective methods to deliver siRNA to tumors has precluded development of such therapeutics.
MyoD expression can be expected to be reduced in fasting fish as the lack of available nutrient energy would preclude muscle development and growth.
Additional comparative analyses of gene expression in V. dahliae, under growth conditions that promote or preclude microsclerotial development, were conducted using a microarray approach with RNA derived from V. dahliae strain Dvd-T5, and from the amicrosclerotial vdh1 strain.
The White Paper does not in itself authorise or preclude any development, but seeks instead to define a "national strategic framework for the future development of airport capacity" over the next 30 years.
