Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] refused [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | , In an unprecedented move , the European Council has refused to renew the status of the French Pyrenees National Park , development in which is threatening the Pyrenean brown bear [ see ED 45 ] . |
| 2 | We talked of the hard times after Independence , of how the old princess had refused to take the charity of the government . |
| 3 | They have published such reviews of the machinery of government in the past — in 1983 , they published the Rayner scrutiny of the HMI — but the Secretary of State has refused to publish the latest internal review . |
| 4 | The government has refused to acknowledge the risk of a poverty trap for those forced to pay maintenance under the Child Support Act . |
| 5 | The fifth summit had originally been scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka during 1989 , but the Sri Lankan government had refused to host the meeting whilst Indian troops remained on its soil [ see p. 37357 ] . |
| 6 | It was reported on April 28 that Ter-Petrosyan had refused to accept the resignation of acting Prime Minister and Vice-President , Gagik Arutyunyan . |
| 7 | Repeatedly we are told that if its characters fail to resist the Shadow , they will be taken over , but if they do resist they may get killed ; similarly if they reject the vagaries of chance ( if Frodo for instance had refused to leave the Shire with the Ring ) , it 's likely something highly unpleasant will happen , but if they accept and obey things could grow even worse . |
| 8 | In response to the charge in a leaflet by Tom Mann and the Red International of Labour Unions that the NUGW had refused to support the miners on Black Friday , Thorne adroitly deflected criticism by declaring that this was malicious propaganda designed to ‘ disrupt everyone of the workmen 's organisations ’ ( SE 20 August 21 ) . |
| 9 | The Kazakh Justice Ministry had refused to register the CPK in April on the grounds that its statutes opposing the dissolution of the Soviet Union breached Kazakhstan 's Constitution . |
| 10 | The fate of the new born baby had not been determined since the family had refused to raise the child as their own . |
| 11 | Once the Fourth Republic had refused to imitate the Third Republic by committing suicide , de Gaulle had to face the problem of sustaining the Rassemblement 's momentum . |
| 12 | She knew her father had pleaded for her , had said she was too solitary and that her mother had refused to allow the shepherds ' children to come , the children she liked to play with . |