Example sentences of "it refused [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It refused to accept the bent card , and she had to find a barrier run by a human being . |
| 2 | KPMG was asked to resign as auditor in November last year because of the board 's ‘ loss of confidence' , but it refused to accept the request because shareholders might have inferred that it acknowledged criticism of its audit work . |
| 3 | The Seville Junta behaved with criminal selfishness and , but for the moderation of its general , it might have declared war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 4 | Other commentators ( Hartung 1952 ; De Gré 1970 [ though written in 1941 ] ; Horowitz 1961 ) tended to the position we have already seen adhered to by Grunwald and Hinshaw ; that the sociology of knowledge was illegitimate when it refused to recognize the primacy of epistemology in dealing with validity and competition between knowledge systems . |
| 5 | After the abdication of Ferdinand at Bayonne , it refused to recognize the change of dynasty , grounding its refusal on legal formalities . |
| 6 | It refused to sign the 1988 accounts when the thrift failed to meet minimum capital standards . |
| 7 | That firm , Badische Ruckstandsbeseitigung , says it refused to handle the waste . |
| 8 | Although France had agreed to repay $630 million , it refused to repay the outstanding balance , claiming that it was the equivalent of losses incurred by French companies as a result of broken contracts . |