Example sentences of "[noun] refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 2 | Orkney Islands Council Social Work Department refused to implement the independent decision of the Children 's Panel , and blamed the Reporter for allowing them to reach it . |
| 3 | Finally , in August 1987 , SAVE wrote a firm and formal letter to the Secretary of State stating that , if the Department refused to list the building , SAVE would consider taking legal action . |
| 4 | Presumably acting on de Lattre 's orders , and certainly in keeping with his ideas , French censors altered the more exuberant and less sensitive American publicity releases and , in an extraordinary outburst , at the last moment de Lattre refused to allow the government of Vietnam to sign its economic agreement with the US . |
| 5 | Morley refused to discuss the incident , saying : ‘ I do n't want to say anything — it 's best left alone . |
| 6 | Corbett refused to recognize the challenge on the grounds that Fitzsimmons was not American , and so Fitzsimmons took out US citizenship . |
| 7 | An agreement on family reunions and the exchange of art troupes which was reached at Red Cross talks in October 1989 [ for which see p. 36975 ] broke down Nov. 27 when the South Koreans refused to allow the revolutionary opera " The Flower Girl " to be performed in Seoul , the South Korean capital , saying that its content was political and contrary to Red Cross principles [ see p. 37041 ] . |
| 8 | The opposition refused to accept the legality of the move and threatened to resign en masse in protest over the DLP 's disregard for legislative procedure . |
| 9 | But walkers refused to let the rain dampen their spirits as North Down deputy mayor Jane Copeland cut the tape to start the event . |
| 10 | The following year , in her review of O'Keeffe 's 1928 exhibition , critic Marya Mannes refused to accept the idea that O'Keefe 's work was , foremost an expression of the feelings and desires of a woman . |
| 11 | He and a group of clerical supporters refused to accept the outcome of events , despite the fact that Cautinus was at first conciliatory — he may even have been responsible for the proposal that Cato should be given the see of Tours . |
| 12 | The American delegation refused to accept the Soviet proposals and thus undermine the Moscow agreement to which the United States was a signatory . |
| 13 | The Israeli delegation refused to discuss the controversial issue of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories . |
| 14 | But negotiations were broken off by the government on 3 May once the compositors at the Daily Mail refused to set the type for an editorial on ‘ For King and Country ’ . |
| 15 | In 1990 , the Royal Mail refused to celebrate the centenary of the Forth Bridge , one of the engineering feats of the 19th century . |
| 16 | However , the Catholic parties refused to take the seats they won in the assembly elections . |
| 17 | Darlington borough council refused to see the South African visitors including diplomat Pierrette Grobler , who has special responsibility for the North-East . |
| 18 | If a rule book was not yet available , that was because it was … at the printer's. 64 But the Edinburgh Trades Council refused to recognize the women 's union , describing it as a " bogus association , engineered by women suffragists " and its leaders found themselves beleaguered . |
| 19 | The most recent case was in 1973 when the government appointed a commissioner to take over the housing responsibilities of the Clay Cross Urban District Council because the council refused to operate the provisions of the Housing Finance Act 1972 and charge higher rents to council tenants . |
| 20 | There was uproar when the council refused to hear the delegation and the meeting was adjourned , the Unionists withdrawing but the Nationalists remaining in their seats . |
| 21 | Nkrumah refused to recognise the Npp in the new parliament as the official opposition . |
| 22 | The plaintiffs succeeded in their action for a declaration , but the defendants refused to repay the money . |
| 23 | In May 1947 , after mounting disagreements , the Communists refused to support the government in a vote of confidence and premier Paul Ramadier decided to expel them from office . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the communists refused to support the left 's call for a transitional government headed by Mendès-France on the grounds that he was too closely associated with the new movement . |
| 25 | The judge refused to refer the case back to magistrates . |
| 26 | A New York judge refused to allow the 57-year-old to give presents directly to the children . |
| 27 | The judge refused to allow the questions to be put . |
| 28 | Nasa won the first round of the legal battle on Tuesday , when a federal judge refused to order the launch be postponed . |
| 29 | In proceedings brought by the husband the judge refused to order the return of the child to Canada , on the grounds that his removal and retention was not wrongful within the meaning of article 3 of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction , set out in Schedule 1 to the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 , since the father had no rights of custody ; and that , under article 13 , there was a risk that the child would be placed in an intolerable situation if he was returned to Ontario because of the lack of proper accommodation and financial support . |
| 30 | But the judge refused to sanction the sale . |