Example sentences of "[noun pl] refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | But walkers refused to let the rain dampen their spirits as North Down deputy mayor Jane Copeland cut the tape to start the event . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , the Catholic parties refused to take the seats they won in the assembly elections . |
| 5 | The plaintiffs succeeded in their action for a declaration , but the defendants refused to repay the money . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After taking independent legal and accounting advice , the Trafalgar directors refused to accept the Panel 's view on the two key issues — the transfer of assets and the treatment of ACT — but in the face of a threat of legal action , the Panel announced that ‘ the directors have undertaken to make the appropriate changes and adjustments in the 1992 accounts to meet the Panel 's concerns ’ . |
| 9 | If the judges refused to enforce the offensive legislation and an election was held with the same result followed by a reintroduction of the legislation , what would judges then do ? |
| 10 | Educational practices can retard changes , or stigmatise them ( this is relevant to the question of generic he , which is often still insisted on by teachers ) ; publishing and the mass media can popularise a word , or conversely , fail to legitimate it ( quality newspapers , most famously the New York Times , for years refused to print the word Ms , even if the woman being written about preferred it ) . |
| 11 | Council officials refused to allow the chemicals to be used unless it could be shown they were not harmful to humans . |
| 12 | Officials refused to indicate the exact origin of the material but did say that " experience tells us that this kind of material comes from Eastern Europe " . |
| 13 | Print workers refused to publish the paper and called for its banning , along with Dreptatea and 22 , the journal of the independent intellectuals ' association , the Group for Social Dialogue . |
| 14 | The Soviet Union and its allies refused to sign the San Francisco peace Treaty in September 1951 on the grounds that it violated an agreement on ‘ one peace ’ reached in 1942 , and condemned the Security Treaty . |
| 15 | Customs refused to meet the costs claimed but the chairman of the tribunal disagreed . |
| 16 | Customs refused to meet the costs claimed but the chairman of the tribunal disagreed . |
| 17 | This was clearly the case in Soviet relations with Egypt , which became the USSR 's most important ally in the Middle East after the mid-1950s when Western governments refused to finance the Aswan Dam . |
| 18 | When Arab governments refused to provide the subsidies promised to the late government Husayn turned to the United States , which provided a $10 million emergency grant , and a further $30 million during the course of the year . |
| 19 | The managers refused to believe the word of a physicist who inspected the plant , and who was to die of radiation sickness a few weeks later . |
| 20 | Those demands were voiced repeatedly in the successive military rebellions that dogged President Alfonsin 's administration as dissatisfied military officers refused to accept the judgements that civil society attempted to impose on their conduct in the dictatorship . |
| 21 | But one wild man of the movies refused to join the teetotal club , and continued flying the well-oiled flag-Oliver Reed . |
| 22 | Several prominent figures refused to take the test , including a former state prosecutor Mohammad Moussavi Khoeniha and a former chief justice Ayatollah Abdelkarim Moussavi Ardebili ; among those who did take it , but failed , were Ayatollah Karrubi and Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali ( the head of the Islamic revolutionary courts set up after the 1979 revolution ) . |
| 23 | The executors refused to convey the cottage . |
| 24 | Yet in 1840 it was Joseph Sturge , having emerged as the leading figure of one faction of abolitionists , who guided Clarkson to and from the platform ; Haydon 's picture represented an exclusion from full recognition in the movement of some elements , especially women , on ideological grounds , and in 1843 some abolitionists refused to attend the Convention , implicitly denying Sturge 's BFASS the right to claim the antislavery heritage . |
| 25 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 26 | This argument was accepted by the House of Lords but their lordships refused to allow the plaintiffs to assert their rights under copyright law . |
| 27 | The spokesman said the Council of Mayors of Arab Towns and Villages refused to accept the Bosnians even after it was given the text of a message from the vice president of Bosnia approving the flight . |
| 28 | Schlüter had initially expressed a desire to expand the coalition to include all five traditional centre-right parties , but the Radical Liberals refused to rejoin the coalition and the smaller Centre Democrats ( CD ) and Christian People 's Party ( KrF ) also declined to join , although all three pledged their external support . |
| 29 | On his retirement , Mirror Newspapers refused to give the contract for the distribution of their newspapers to Mr Stark 's daughter , Mrs Gunning . |
| 30 | Members of the opposition group on Darlington borough council were furious when Labour leaders refused to see the South African diplomats last week . |