Example sentences of "[be] denied " in BNC.

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1 We are in the presence of very great evil , my friends , and the little grey cells must not be denied . ’
2 That Agatha Christie 's reading was wide-ranging can not now be denied , but , even so , the source of one of Hercule Poirot 's favourite ploys — almost , it could be said , his trademark , the gathering together of the suspects at the climax of one of his investigations — is surprising .
3 However , it can not be denied that incompetent side-slipping and sideslipping close to the ground can cause accidents .
4 For in a similar vein to the criminal ‘ enemy ’ , the researcher 's activities are across the bounds , a challenge to be taken on , attacked , and , destroyed or at least to be denied .
5 Nor can it be denied that he has done nothing .
6 The Government is hoping the BMA 's acceptance of assurances that patients will not be denied drugs for cash reasons will also end allegations that doctors will not take the elderly and chronically sick on lists because they are too expensive to treat .
7 Children may be denied the possibility of such abuse being detected .
8 She could conceivably be denied by Kitrina Douglas , the winner of this season 's St Moritz Classic and European Masters , although even if she were to win each of the last four tournaments , she still might not make up the £30,000 deficit on De Lorenzi .
9 The public will now be denied their rights . ’
10 This was part of the good life , and they were not to be denied it .
11 He said Labour would be denied the opportunity to re-erect the interventionist policies promised in the policy review .
12 Many felt that to be denied the use of a fishing net for 4 months each year was the removal of a fundamental human right .
13 By next morning , though , the sun was back and England could be denied no longer .
14 In the health service the initial shock that patients can be denied treatment fades as the public becomes used to the fact that they are .
15 The facts are the facts , and I am compelled to record them with a plainness of detail which in the end offers the only means of extending that small degree of compassion , or perhaps even understanding , which all men in whatever circumstance or however degraded should not be denied .
16 The cantankerous tone of Hippolytus can not be denied .
17 To no other , to no less divine a source can I trace the movement ’ , but as we have seen , other speakers , like Joseph Parker , were more perceptive while the 1897 National Council president admitted that ‘ perhaps it can scarcely be denied that in some of our earliest Nonconformist Councils … at first the inspiration was to a large extent political ’ .
18 She lived to regret what she regarded as her weakness , for the child 's fate was to be so terrible that his existence had to be denied in her own mind .
19 Later the same year , he was to be denied a place in the British Olympic football team on the grounds that he was a professional cricketer .
20 A curiosity about this year 's Masters is that Scotland , the home of golf , will be denied a view of today 's proceedings .
21 Not to be denied , Sunderland were ahead again five minutes later , Goodman clinically finishing off another move inspired by Byrne .
22 He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ .
23 The only other way Clinton could be denied the nomination is if yet another scandal breaks out — perhaps proof positive of his alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers — and he voluntarily withdraws .
24 Under the scheme , which could become a draft directive by the end of the year , motorists would be denied the choice of purchasing parts from the largely cheaper independent suppliers .
25 Independents provide almost identical products for lower prices and motorists should not be denied the chance of buying them . ’
26 The appetite of adults to be shown the foundations and processes of thought will never be denied by a British Administration cherishing the continuity of our Island life .
27 The normal response to that suggestion is that children in rural schools must not be denied the educational opportunities which are open to other children .
28 The British citizen must no longer be denied the fair voting systems enjoyed by the citizens of every other European country .
29 Nevertheless , despite a similar provision in section 6(3) of the Education Act 1980 ( enabling , until the ERA 1988 restricted its effect to schools which are not yet subject to LMS , parental preference to be denied formally on economic efficiency grounds ) considerable extensions of parental rights have occurred , as shown below .
30 In the case of admission to voluntary aided or special agreement schools , or to selective schools , choice could also be denied on religious or ability grounds .
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