Example sentences of "[Wh det] refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is justly ironic that the Government , which refused to control the industry and protect the environment , has also refused to help them conduct a price-fixing operation . |
| 2 | A fourth , dominated by Sir Stafford Cripps and the Socialist League , a body founded in 1932 by a large minority group of the Independent Labour Party which refused to leave the Labour Party , favoured a ‘ united front ’ with the Communists against fascists . |
| 3 | Delegates agreed that all parties represented at the meeting , as well as the Azanian People 's Organization ( AZAPO ) , the official white opposition Conservative Party ( CP ) , the Reformed National Party ( HNP ) and the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) — all of which refused to attend the preparatory meeting — would be invited to CODESA . |
| 4 | Dog agility appeals to all ages … although seven year old Daniel Treagus was having trouble with his Cavalier King Charles spaniel which refused to climb the A frame : |
| 5 | Reports of violence on the part of the Serbian authorities in Kosovo against the civilian population drew an official protest on May 26 from Albania ( which refused to recognize the FRY ) . |
| 6 | The Commission referred to its previous opinion in the Van Oosterwijk case , ‘ that a State which refused to recognise the new status of a transsexual after medical treatment resulting in a change of sex failed to respect private life ’ . |
| 7 | This was rejected by the court , which refused to read the words , so far as reasonably practical , into the statute . |
| 8 | The combined effect of these ‘ taxes ’ was to make the stamped press an expensive commodity , thereby restricting its circulation , and to make the ‘ unstamped ’ press , i.e. those newspapers which refused to pay the duties , illegal and so subject to punitive measures . |