Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Morley refused to discuss the incident , saying : ‘ I do n't want to say anything — it 's best left alone . |
| 4 | Corbett refused to recognize the challenge on the grounds that Fitzsimmons was not American , and so Fitzsimmons took out US citizenship . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nkrumah refused to recognise the Npp in the new parliament as the official opposition . |
| 7 | During one of these trials , Sherman refused to label the teacher 's location , saying ‘ Collar ’ instead . |
| 8 | May : normalization of relations with Egypt , visit to Damascus by President Mubarak [ see p. 37471 ] ; Assad refused to attend the Arab League summit in Baghdad [ see pp. 37472-73 ] . |
| 9 | In response to these attacks , Archbishop Romero refused to attend the inauguration of the new president , General Romero , claiming he had a more important engagement with the people , an adroit reference to the huge fraud and violence which had accompanied the elections . |
| 10 | At first , Stalin refused to believe the news of the attack and that enabled the German forces to achieve many objectives , Despite their rapid advance , however , the Germans failed to reach Moscow , partly because the Russians indulged in a ‘ scorched earth ’ policy , and on 6th . |
| 11 | There was also the precedent established by the British when the ARB refused to validate the US certificate of airworthiness of the Boeing 707 in its original form and the manufacturers had to design and fit an additional dorsal fin to improve its ‘ Dutch roll ’ characteristics before Dai Davis , the ARB chief test pilot , was satisfied that the aircraft was up to UK certification standards . |
| 12 | Over 25,000 signatures were collected , but the Amir refused to accept the petition . |
| 13 | The BIP refused to join the committee , and objected to what it saw as the more militant tactics advocated by the BNF . |
| 14 | The money had been donated by Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin , but Haibara refused to name the 60 or so politicians to whom the money was later distributed to assist with their re-election campaigns . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think Yolande refused to consummate the marriage ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Andrex refused to pay the import duty so the container company had to find a way of dumping 190,000 unwanted plastic dogs . ’ |
| 17 | Even then Wilson refused to sign the budget bill until congress had passed enabling legislation which provided for a suspension of the minimum school financing requirement ( which , under the terms of a 1988 initiative , had been set at 40 per cent of the state 's general fund ) should the education loan be ruled unconstitutional in court . |
| 18 | Hajdu refused to disclose the amount of the firm 's debts , its revenues , or its current staff count , saying only that it was ‘ in the middle of a re-organisation . ’ |
| 19 | Robert refused to pay the three francs asked and , supported by Lionel , left a ranting cabman outside … |
| 20 | Leeds cut the gap on runaway leaders Manchester United to 12 points but manager Howard Wilkinson refused to discuss the title race after his side 's 3–2 home win over Manchester City . |
| 21 | SMALL Firms Minister Eric Forth refused to disclose the Government 's view on a plea from small businessmen to tighten up the law on bouncing cheques . |
| 22 | But Bosnian Serbs refused to let the convoy pass , saying they had had insufficient advance notice , said Judith Kumin of the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgrade . |
| 23 | The Bosnian Serbs refused to sign the Vance-Owen plan because , if it were ever implemented , it would make it impossible for this generation of Serbs to link Serbia proper with the Serb-held parts of Bosnia and Croatia to make them a single state . |
| 24 | Jesus refused to answer the question . |
| 25 | Eventually it was decided that if Kalchu refused to pay the money the Tibetan should be allowed to kill the dog . |
| 26 | On 3 April 1992 , following a hearing in chambers , Booth J. refused to order the children 's return to the State of Victoria . |
| 27 | There he pronounces Owenism 's insistence on the right of property to be its vitiating weakness and contrasts it unfavourably with those who ‘ could see that Socialism entailed the expropriation of the great land owners ’ ; and goes on to conclude that because Owen refused to face the problem of ownership and power , he was able to remain quite indifferent to political Radicalism and to lead the movement astray . |
| 28 | On Feb. 21 the first meeting was held between the new government and the trade unions , but Podkrepa refused to attend the meeting with Dimitrov and other Cabinet members because the CITUB 's chair , Krustyu Petkov , was also invited . |
| 29 | On July 3 Brooke refused to describe the talks as having broken down , saying that he hoped they could be revived in the autumn . |
| 30 | Sealink and P&O last asked the Government to allow them to cooperate in November 1991 , but the then trade and industry secretary Peter Lilley refused to lift the ban on advice from the OFT , which was then headed by Sir Gordon Borrie . |