Example sentences of "refused [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while pleased , Mr Elton was scathing about Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley 's response to the Ombudsman 's report to which the Government refused to accept responsibility for the affair . |
| 2 | The local creamery refused to accept milk from the area as dust was floating in it . |
| 3 | In 1910 , however , the relatively conservative and impressionist-dominated ( by Liebermann , Slevogt , Corinth , and others ) executive committee of the Secession refused to give space to the Brücke painters at the annual exhibition . |
| 4 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 5 | Hans Modrow , then the leader of the Dresden regional SED organization ( and later East German Prime Minister ) , refused to give evidence in the trial , on the grounds that there was a case pending against him relating to those elections . |
| 6 | The MFJ 's inaugural rally on Sept. 15 in Kumasi had to be cancelled because the police refused to give permission for the event . |
| 7 | Susan came down for breakfast today , and they had an exciting time opening their parcels , for their father 's illness had prevented their making friends in the neighbourhood ; but there was plenty to do and talk about , and they steadfastly refused to give way to the depression that naturally overcame them at times . |
| 8 | On principle , Hurley refused to share information with the Germans and British , except when he needed their cooperation for controlled deliveries through Frankfurt and London , but , braving his disapproval , Coleman made a point of renewing his friendship with Hartmut Mayer , the German police officer whom he had met in Munich during the 1972 Olympics and who was now the BKA 's liaison officer on Cyprus . |
| 9 | Although the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor 's Office refused to release information on the details of the payments , unofficial reports suggested that the names on the Watanabe memorandum included those of five former Prime Minsters and two LDP faction leaders , with individuals receiving amounts ranging from 800 million to 10,800 million yen . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's clashes cut the main route from Belgrade to Sarajevo , the Bosnian capital , and scruffy gun-toting irregulars refused to allow traffic through the town . |
| 11 | The most notable consequences of the new Soviet initiative were that in 1975 Mexico signed an agreement with Comecon , and trade with both Argentina and Brazil reached a peak in 1981 when both countries refused to take part in the grain embargo introduced by Resident Carter as one of his sanctions against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan . |
| 12 | He declined to say if that included Hezb-i-Islami , which has declared his election invalid and refused to take part in the government unless Mr Rabbani steps down . |
| 13 | The Loyalist Coalition , consisting of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party led by William Craig and the Democratic Unionist Party led by the Rev. Ian Paisley together with the Anti-White Paper Unionists led by Harry West , refused to take part in the talks . |
| 14 | The French refused to take part in the project because Dassault was not to receive the largest proportion of the contracts and , in June 1992 , Germany decided that , since the threat from the Warsaw pact was gone and she was unlikely to participate in out-of-area conflicts , she had no more use for the aircraft . |
| 15 | In explaining why he had gone along with ‘ doctoring ’ data so as to secure a contract deadline , a supervisor pointed out , ‘ If I refused to take part in the fraud , I would have to either resign or be fired ’ . |
| 16 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 17 | A number of adolescents refused to take part in the study ; this group might have proved less successful than those who participated . |
| 18 | Many students , still bitterly hostile to the government despite a barrage of propaganda and weeks of political study classes , refused to take part in the celebrations , spending the day inside their dormitories . |
| 19 | He also held that the transfer was not void but voidable and ordered that the names of C. and D. should be removed from the proprietership register and the defendant 's name substituted ; but he refused to order rectification of the charges register section 82 of the Act of 1925 by removal of the building society 's charge . |
| 20 | The Dumbarton MP , John McFall , shadow Scottish home affairs spokesman , accused the Government of failing to carry out its manifesto commitment to change the law and stated that Labour would introduce its own bill if the Government refused to make space for the legislation . |
| 21 | Forty societies refused to make acceptance of the Code a condition of membership and broke away to form their own rival society , but the two were merged again in 1940 . |