Example sentences of "refused [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end , a court refused to enforce a six-month restraint against a Mayfair hairdresser , extending for a radius of half a mile . |
| 2 | Less than four hours before the scheduled start , the local fire brigade refused to issue a safety licence for the arena . |
| 3 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 4 | They also refused to support a government which relied on Russian former communists . |
| 5 | In February 1915 the National Union Executive refused to sanction a scheme to use the party agents to find recruits , since it " might savour of compulsion " and in April the Committee refused to debate a motion on compulsory service because of the party truce . |
| 6 | They had never had an argument , apart from one occasion in 1956 , when Henry refused to wear a pair of short trousers . |
| 7 | He was unconventional — he always used to wear a woolly cap and refused to wear a tie . |
| 8 | The Maggot , who refused to wear a seat belt , shoved his throttles forward , and I felt the sweat trickling down my belly as the brakes were released and the small plane thundered down the rough surface . |
| 9 | Katherine wandered back into her bedroom and lazily sorted through her wardrobe , before finally settling on a simple gown of heavy blue satin that was at least two seasons out of date , but which served to hide her fuller figure as she refused to wear a corset . |
| 10 | Retaliation would be allowed against a country which refused to implement a panel 's final report or failed to reach some other approved agreement within 30 days . |
| 11 | Dr Vincent and Dr Jones delivered the message to Downing Street after Mrs Thatcher refused to see a delegation from the church , a decision which they described as an ‘ affront ’ . |
| 12 | The neighbour , Sandra Maher , told the Cardiff hearing that Miss Williams had seemed confused on Christmas Eve , but refused to see a doctor . |
| 13 | Rhoda had a nasty pain in her stomach but refused to see a doctor . |
| 14 | The parliamentary negotiating team , led by Dejean Belizaire , president of the Senate , refused to attend a further session of talks with the OAS in Washington on Jan. 19 , and later suspended any further talks with Aristide . |
| 15 | The Angolan guerrillas refused to attend an 18 September meeting in Zaire to discuss the peace process , which started with a ceasefire last June . |
| 16 | Intel says that it will introduce personal computer add-in boards and software later this year , but refused to confirm a report in US PC Week that places the number of products at 20 and says that the first launch will be in April . |
| 17 | Arslanián had reportedly accepted nine presidential recommendations but refused to confirm a further four judges , claiming that they had no merit other than Menem 's support . |
| 18 | The first signs of political discontent in England over the conduct of the war surfaced in the parliament of February 1371 , when the commons refused to grant a subsidy until the king 's clerical ministers of state had been replaced by laymen who , unlike their clerical counterparts , would be liable to answer for their misdeeds in the royal courts . |
| 19 | The court also refused to grant a declaration saying that health secretary Virginia Bottomley had broken the law , since she had properly delegated the task of consultation . |
| 20 | Judge Beach disagreed and refused to grant an injunction . |
| 21 | A High Court judge refused to grant an injunction which would have forced publishers Methuen to remove the characters , drawn by former Daily Mirror cartoonist Griffin . |
| 22 | Mr Justice Harman refused to grant an injunction in favour of the plaintiff and strongly criticized the use of an American contract which he described as having odd and inept phrasing . |
| 23 | However , he refused to grant an order preventing BNFL starting the 10-week testing period before the outcome of the legal action is known , saying he had been " very considerably influenced " by evidence from BNFL that a delay in the start of testing would cost the company up to £2 million a week and put 700 jobs at risk . |
| 24 | 10.7.2 The court refused to grant an injunction |
| 25 | The judge refused to grant an injunction , and said it was for the valuer to decide whether to proceed or not , and that the president of the RICS owed no duty to the parties not to make an appointment . |
| 26 | In February a judge ruled the label on Thorncroft Vineyard 's drink was ‘ calculated to deceive , ’ but refused to grant an injunction . |
| 27 | With some fish , but particularly carp , a situation was apparent whereby they refused to accept a bait on strong tackle , but could not be landed on tackle fine enough to fool them . |
| 28 | Carp refused to accept a bait mounted directly on strong tackle because they had learned through the experience of being caught that dangerous ( hooked ) baits behaved differently from those that were not dangerous ( free , unattached baits ) . |
| 29 | One woman refused to accept a support worker as a night sitter ; the development officer said ‘ she could n't accept a stranger in the house at night ’ . |
| 30 | When the workers took a ballot , went on strike and refused to accept a peace plan ( which by then included a wage freeze and a cut in certain benefits ) , he says he was left with no choice : ‘ I dismissed the old workforce and hired a new one . |