Example sentences of "[prep] [be] refused " in BNC.
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| 1 | The society wants development proposals , such as the building of 10,000 new houses in west Swindon close to drought-stricken rivers , to be refused if there is too little water available . |
| 2 | Should anyone arrive less than 45 minutes before the ticketed departure time admission to the flight is likely to be refused . |
| 3 | Though the head needs to bubble with enthusiasm reasonable requests will sometimes need to be refused solely to keep a balance and not let pressures get out of hand . |
| 4 | The survey also provided information as to the types of development most likely to be refused planning permission due to anticipated odour emission . |
| 5 | The Nazis could only thrive on being seen to be refused , and the Poles had just obliged . |
| 6 | When he found out , he contacted the Diocese of London 's lawyers , who helped to prepare the paperwork : getting a licence seemed to be just a formality — in modern times it was practically unheard-of for a faculty to be refused . |
| 7 | Lots of people had to be refused . |
| 8 | Henceforth , unreformed parishes were to be grouped into Unions , with Boards of Guardians directing policy , and relief was to be refused outside the workhouse . |
| 9 | At one time , would-be subscribers had to be refused telephones because outgoing cables were overloaded with intelligence telephone taps . |
| 10 | TWO BOSNIAN families who fled detention camps and now live in Chelmsford have been assured that their applications for asylum are unlikely to be refused . |
| 11 | In 1912 , he was believed to have attempted to board the ill-fated Titanic only to be refused , thus saving his life . |
| 12 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 13 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 14 | After that particular evening he had often volunteered to try again with the bathing , if halfheartedly , but seemed happy to be refused , though he was more confident about cooking the evening meal . |
| 15 | Thirdly , it can be argued that the discretion creates unacceptable uncertainty and unpredictability in the law because it allows a person to be refused relief on unexpected and ill-defined grounds . |
| 16 | Today , were a Black to be refused ordination on account of his race , there would be an outcry . |
| 17 | The Means Test is very strictly enforced , and you are liable to be refused relief at the slightest hint that you are getting money from another source . |
| 18 | For an Arab to be refused by his amour … . ’ |
| 19 | Since a residence order was in substance what the foster mother sought , it was agreed between counsel for her and the local authority : ( a ) that the local authority would not object to the foster mother 's application for a residence order being made before the expiry of the six months period ; ( b ) that the hearing before the judge should be treated as the hearing of that application ; ( c ) that if , in the event , the foster mother were to be given leave to apply for a residence order she would agree to the formal dismissal of her application for judicial review without any penalty as to costs ; but ( d ) that , if leave under the Act were to be refused , it would be open to the foster mother to continue the judical review proceedings . |
| 20 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |
| 21 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 22 | GREAT Britain star Michael Jackson is to be refused a new deal at Wakefield . |
| 23 | We have recently received a claim from a class member who had an accident in a class and as the teacher was in no way responsible that claim had to be refused . |
| 24 | ‘ You would have said no , ’ he whispered , ‘ and I did n't want to be refused . ’ |