Example sentences of "[adv] refused [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England team manager Micky Stewart fuelled the controversy at the end of the Cornhill Test series when he pointedly refused to clear the Pakistan bowlers over their methods of making the ball swing . |
| 2 | Although he always treated Richard Baxter with the utmost politeness and civility , he nevertheless refused to embrace the Gospel himself and kept his family and servants away from the meetings . |
| 3 | This startling routine delighted the audience so much that they usually refused to let the show continue until an encore had been performed — often two . |
| 4 | Downing Street yesterday refused to dismiss the possibility , although the Government may assess the impact of the white paper before deciding on whether to proceed . |
| 5 | THE President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , yesterday refused to order a Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into the £225 million takeover bid by Airtours for its rival holiday group , Owners Abroad . |
| 6 | SENIOR Ministers face a nail-biting Christmas after Government sources yesterday refused to rule a Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 7 | He still refused to let the old woman call in any other doctor , and set his own leg , though not quite perfectly ; hence the limp . |
| 8 | She still refused to make a statement , but she would , however , describe the man . |
| 9 | But she still refused to make a sound . |
| 10 | They also refused to support a government which relied on Russian former communists . |
| 11 | It was rejected out of hand by President Bush , who also refused to include the US Navy in conventional arms control agreements . |
| 12 | In deference to the opposition within the party , the abandonment of the referendum was kept secret until Law had been able to consult with Borden , who of course insisted that tariffs without food taxes would be no value to Canada , but who also refused to make a public intervention in British politics . |
| 13 | The court also refused to grant a declaration saying that health secretary Virginia Bottomley had broken the law , since she had properly delegated the task of consultation . |
| 14 | Britain also refused to sign a Social Charter in 1989 which guaranteed certain minimum social rights to EC peoples , and it had to be said , thirty years after the Rome treaties , that European unity had not really fulfilled the high hopes of Schuman , de Gasperi or Adenauer . |
| 15 | The Court also refused to remove a 1987 injunction which limited the scale and scope of permissible protests outside an Ohio abortion clinic . |
| 16 | He symbolically refused to sign the first Annual Report to the Minister with the traditional ‘ Your obedient servant ’ , preferring the more neutral ‘ Yours faithfully ’ . |
| 17 | STORMONT Minister Jeremy Hanley today refused to unveil a secret report into the management of the Department of Education . |
| 18 | She simply refused to let the matter rest where it.was . |
| 19 | He simply refused to recognise the new administration . |
| 20 | He even refused to let the Shah have the keys to the personal car he kept in Rome . |
| 21 | In 1595 , she even refused to allow the publication of the predestinarian Lambeth Articles , although they had been approved by her favoured archbishop , John Whitgift . |
| 22 | The CFDT then refused to sign the agreements and called for intensification of the strike movement . |
| 23 | This could arise if the plaintiff suffered negligently inflicted injuries and then refused to have a blood transfusion because of his religious beliefs . |
| 24 | He says he almost refused to accept the card because he had never come across one before . |
| 25 | Thus , although Mary 's first House of Commons readily accepted the restoration of Catholic doctrine and liturgy , it initially refused to repeal the Henrician anti-papal legislation , and it delayed the reconciliation with Rome until Pope Julius III had secured the future of secularized ecclesiastical property by guaranteeing the rights of existing lay holders . |
| 26 | He allegedly refused to treat the boy , insisting that he should be taken to hospital . |
| 27 | Mr. Kenealy then said that he had reliable information that patients ' heads were verminous , but he absolutely refused to divulge the sources of the complaints , in which case , the committee said , they would take no further action . |
| 28 | ‘ I absolutely refused to take a penny from him when we split up . |
| 29 | She too refused to accept the justice of the imprisonment . |