Example sentences of "refuses [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refuses to wear the ceremonial purple of a bishop , preferring instead simple monastic robes . |
| 2 | One 's overall sense of The Possessed absolutely refuses to confirm any such duality , and one can pay the novel no simpler or fuller tribute than by saying so . |
| 3 | I understand Tennant , an American , met Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam 10 days ago but he refuses to confirm or deny their rendezvous . |
| 4 | ‘ He refuses to see anybody except us . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm worried it might be an ulcer but he refuses to see a doctor . |
| 6 | He refuses to see |
| 7 | ‘ Apparently she 's seen plenty of specialists and they all say the same thing — she 's blind because she refuses to see . ’ |
| 8 | New Historicism refuses to see texts as passive reflections of the cultural whole , but as interventions within it , fashioned by the whole but also re-fashioning the existing orders through which culture is written and understood . |
| 9 | Martin feels guilty for not preventing it , but she refuses to see him . |
| 10 | He is n't well , but he refuses to see the doctor . ’ |
| 11 | Poulantzas , on the other hand , characteristically refuses to debate on the empirical ground of ‘ bourgeois sociology ’ and denies that any degree of social mobility could have a material bearing on the Marxist analysis of the class structure . |
| 12 | If the glass has any virtue at all , he wrote , it is that it refuses to pretend . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman is so concerned about law and order , perhaps he could explain to me why his party refuses to support the Prevention of Terrorism ( Temporary Provisions ) Act , which was introduced initially by a Labour Government and is now opposed by a Labour Opposition . |
| 14 | Fumbling after phrases in the suicide letter and a thousand other places , the novelist strives to clarify an idea , but also to purge his understanding of great-sinner preconceptions and ambitions which the developing Possessed refuses to accommodate . |
| 15 | Astra refuses to conduct further rat studies with lower doses of ranitidine , saying that this is Glaxo 's job . |
| 16 | There are two solutions — either one refuses to conduct policy-oriented research in order to preserve one 's academic purity or one undertakes the research and risks the consequences which may be that one is over-identified with those who commissioned the research or those investigated . |
| 17 | Once again , the male homosexual is someone who refuses to risk himself in relation to the other , but now the risk is not in relation to the opposite sex ( as in Scruton and Mailer ) , but to the same sex as rival . |
| 18 | The child who refuses to sit at the table or in a high chair These children may be showing specific food-related problems or the difficulty may be part of a much wider behavioural and emotional problem . |
| 19 | Never take the dog 's food away if you discover that it has misbehaved , or if it refuses to sit . |
| 20 | The Spirit marks out Stephen as a special vehicle of God when he refuses to remain restricted to the static categories of the temple and moves into broader pastures ( 6:3,5,10 , 7:55 ) . |
| 21 | When I go down a steep or longish hill , braking on the engine , by the time I 've reached the bottom the engine seems to be suffering from fuel starvation and consequently refuses to go up the other side . |
| 22 | Absolutely refuses to go into workhouse . ’ |
| 23 | He is clearly a very disturbed and emotionally rejected child because he deliberately urinates on the carpets and bedding , refuses to go to bed or stay in his own bed . |
| 24 | He is clearly a very disturbed and emotionally rejected child because he deliberately urinates on the carpets and bedding , refuses to go to bed or stay in his own bed . |
| 25 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 26 | There 's no proper treatment out here but she refuses to go home . |
| 27 | But for some reason it just refuses to go away . |
| 28 | Taylor refuses to go |
| 29 | When Hun Sen , himself a former Khmer Rouge commander who fled to Vietnam , gives his list of eight Khmer Rouge leaders whom he absolutely refuses to include in any political deal , it is the same people who studied together in Paris in the 1950s , fought in the jungles from 1967 , captured Phnom Penh in 1975 , led the government of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 , and fled to Thailand in 1979 after the Vietnamese invasion . |
| 30 | The New Historicism refuses to treat the literary works of the past as transcendent entities , removed from social and historical contexts , and embodying supposedly timeless values . |