Example sentences of "be denied the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Independents provide almost identical products for lower prices and motorists should not be denied the chance of buying them . ’
2 ENGLAND 'S players will be denied the chance of pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem on the pitch before Saturday 's Test against South Africa at Twickenham .
3 Its issue presupposes that some function of the body remains to be performed , and this sets an internal time limit after which the order could not issue ( although an applicant can be denied the order because of undue delay even before the expiry of this time ) .
4 Children may be denied the possibility of such abuse being detected .
5 Under the scheme , which could become a draft directive by the end of the year , motorists would be denied the choice of purchasing parts from the largely cheaper independent suppliers .
6 Goldstein argues that if a patient is capable of consenting to ordinary therapy , and if both incarceration and experimental surgery are approved social practices , a person should not be denied the choice .
7 Offenders were to be denied the sacrament by the local priest .
8 Why , for example , should the contributories and creditors of an unregistered company be denied the protection , enjoyed in the case of a registered company , of those provisions which require a receiver to be a licensed insolvency practitioner ?
9 He can be denied the nomination only by an extraordinary blocking coalition of ‘ super-delegates ’ — party bigwigs who make up nearly a fifth of the voting delegates at the convention — and delegates already won by Tsongas and by Brown , plus a handful of delegates ( more than a tenth of the total ) who are already pledged as ‘ uncommitted ’ .
10 The only other way Clinton could be denied the nomination is if yet another scandal breaks out — perhaps proof positive of his alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers — and he voluntarily withdraws .
11 The outposts of Imperialism in the Third World are to be denied the support of Imperialist powers .
12 If Soviet Russia is to be denied the hegemony of Europe , the United Kingdom must continue in existence as the principal power in Western Europe economically and militarily .
13 He said Labour would be denied the opportunity to re-erect the interventionist policies promised in the policy review .
14 Such a motion is exempted business , so that the House in question can not be denied the opportunity to pass upon the matter simply by government manipulation of time , but in relation to the vast majority of instruments , opposition is pointless and rarely mounted .
15 I 'm just annoyed that so many Liverpudlians will be denied the opportunity to support the lads and frighten the life out of the Russians .
16 Elderly patients should not necessarily be denied the operation if they are fit and have normal anal function .
17 Many felt that to be denied the use of a fishing net for 4 months each year was the removal of a fundamental human right .
18 There is no express disqualification from voting in the case of mental patients other than the general reference to ‘ any legal incapacity to vote ’ in s.1(l) ( b ) ( i ) of the 1983 Act but it is generally considered that any person who , at the moment of voting , lacked capacity to understand what he was immediately about to do , whether by reason of mental illness or drunkenness , etc. , could be denied the right to vote by the presiding officer at the poll .
19 Labour 's suspicions were immediately aroused that Asquith 's speech at the National Liberal Club was part of an ‘ Establishment ’ plot to deny Labour fair play , and that a Labour government defeated in the Commons would be denied the right which other governments had enjoyed , of an immediate dissolution .
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