Example sentences of "[noun] have refuse [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | STOKE forward Wayne Biggins has refused to sign a new contract unless he gets an immediate pay rise . |
| 2 | Despite the new evidence , the Virginia judiciary had refused to order a retrial of the case , partly because Coleman 's lawyer filed an appeal document one day too late , and partly because of a state law which forbade the consideration of new evidence discovered more than 21 days after the date of the original conviction . |
| 3 | He said Labour , Conservative and Lib Dems have refused to share a debate with Dr Clarke but he warned the BNP would not be prevented from going to election meetings in the town . |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs Lamplugh said : ‘ We are naturally disappointed that the council has refused to express a view on the statements we complained about , but has not upheld our complaint because they consider it was not appropriate . ’ |
| 5 | While both the BSP and the UDF had called for calm , the UDF had refused to sign a BSP-inspired non-violence declaration ( which many opposition parties rejected as a BSP propaganda ploy ) , issuing instead on May 27 its own non-violence declaration , which included the rejection of violence , government overthrow by force and racial discrimination . |
| 6 | In its latest salvo over equal access to each other 's markets , AT&T Co is telling the US regulatory authorities that the accounting rates — the amount the originator pays the co-respondent for landing a call — between the UK and the US could be cut by 60% : according to the Financial Times , AT&T says British Telecommunications Plc has refused to agree a cut , British Telecom says nonsense , we are still considering it and we will let them know next month ; transatlantic accounting rates have fallen by near 50% over the past two years . |
| 7 | However , church officials have refused saying a teddy bear has no religious significance . |
| 8 | The case , referred under powers to challenge unduly lenient sentences introduced in February , is the first in which the Appeal Court has refused to substitute a stiffer sentence . |
| 9 | Thus , the court has refused to imply a term that a landlord entitled to recover the cost of insurance from his tenant is obliged to choose the cheapest method of insuring ( Bandar Property Holdings Ltd v Darwen ( JS ) ( Successors ) Ltd [ 1968 ] 2 All ER 305 ) or that the tenant is under an obligation not to use the demised property for an immoral purpose ( Burfort Financial Investments Ltd v Chotard ( 1976 ) 239 EGH 891 ) or that the landlord is entitled to interest on a retrospective increase in rent ( Trust House Forte Albany Hotels Ltd v Daejan Investments Ltd ( 1980 ) 256 EG 915 ) . |
| 10 | It appeared that Goble had refused to pay a sum charged against him as owner of some houses , and the Commissioners had taken legal proceedings against him , and he had then submitted and paid , with costs . |
| 11 | Yet , even in opposition circles , intellectuals have refused to take a principled stand . |
| 12 | There was increasing speculation about Jordan 's deteriorating relations with the USA , amid reports that the Jordanian government had refused to back a US plan to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein . |
| 13 | A management spokesman said that the union had refused to accept a peace package as a whole , while the union negotiators claimed a lock-out of workers was in progress . |
| 14 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
| 15 | Diana has refused to attend a Gala Welsh night organised by her husband 's own charity , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 16 | In 1991 the Philippines ' Senate had refused to ratify a renegotiated bases treaty , and the US military had been given until the end of 1992 to effect a complete withdrawal . |
| 17 | Its original membership , instated when the United Nations was founded in 1945 , had been cancelled in 1956 when Alphonse Mobuto had refused to allow a delegation to visit Zimbala to investigate accounts of mass genocide under his regime . |
| 18 | The Good Parliament had refused to grant a subsidy , and accordingly another parliament was summoned for January 1377 . |
| 19 | Afterwards he said : ‘ The magistrates have refused to issue a summons so I will have to go to a higher court . |
| 20 | Afterwards he said : ‘ The magistrates have refused to issue a summons so I will have to go to a higher court . |
| 21 | Magistrates have refused to grant a music licence for the event , at Blackthorn farm near Coleford , after hearing objections from some local people who say last years festival was a nightmare . |
| 22 | It was February 1979 : a group of four unions had refused to accept a pay limit of 5 per cent imposed by the Government on all public service workers . |
| 23 | The structures of Employee Involvement have only been accepted by salaried staff ; shopfloor unions have refused to make a formal commitment to the programme , which is regarded as contrary to the established contractual job-control orientation of workplace trade unions . |