Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] denied [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reserves were denied the honours in the Central League by the same process of calculation , but the third team won the Yorkshire Midweek League for the second year running . |
| 2 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 3 | But in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment ex parte Rose Theatre Trust when the Minister decided not to make an order protecting the site of an Elizabethan theatre , a company of interested individuals was denied the right to challenge this decision , even though this meant that no one was in a position to do so . |
| 4 | as Unionists were denied the opportunity to criticize men who were still regarded as enemies . |
| 5 | The lower orders were denied the privilege of the back door and entered through the front . |
| 6 | The Algerians were denied a second-round place in 1982 only because of their inferior goal difference to both Austria and Wst Germany . |
| 7 | The Germans were denied the Channel ports , but the small , victorious British professional army was almost destroyed . |
| 8 | Lady Thatcher told peers yesterday that it would be ‘ disgraceful ’ if British voters were denied a say on Maastricht . |
| 9 | And Wolves should have had a second penalty after Regis had apparently set up Kelly but Sandford 's challenge went unnoticed by Mr Harrison , Stoke escaped and Wolves were denied the chance to regain the lead . |