Example sentences of "be turn down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are turned down for a grant or loan or you are unhappy with the amount given , there is no right of appeal to an independent tribunal as there used to be . |
| 2 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 3 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 4 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 5 | Requests to establish a clearway to prevent cars parking in the stop zone have been turned down on the grounds the restriction would be difficult to impose . |
| 6 | Had he not been turned down by a local industrial company , things might have been different . |
| 7 | A SECOND appeal against East Hampshire District Council 's refusal to allow permission for a house on land at Old School House , Crabtree Lane , Headley has been turned down by a government inspector . |
| 8 | PLANS to convert a house in Palace Avenue , Rhyl , into separate flats have been turned down by a Welsh Office inspector . |
| 9 | A proposal by the unit to investigate engineering research has recently been turned down by the Social Science Research Council . |
| 10 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |
| 11 | A request from Shetland farmers to ban all imports of dairy cattle to save their stocks from BSE infection has been turned down by the Shetland Island Council . |
| 12 | A major mining project has been turned down by the Australian Labour government in favour of preserving species unique to the area and defending the land rights of Aborigines . |
| 13 | Proposals for bilateral agreements , put forward by both these countries , have been turned down by the UK Department of the Environment on the grounds that Britain , along with other European Community countries , is aiming to achieve self-sufficiency in waste disposal . |
| 14 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 15 | The £1,800 earmarked for extensions and alterations to the Civic Centre had not in fact been turned down by the Liberal administration but had merely been cynically deferred until after the byelection ! |
| 16 | Later , it emerged that Caledonian Mining had sought a controlling interest rather than an outright takeover , but had been turned down by the consortium . |
| 17 | He said Mr McGuigan had applied for a weapon and been turned down by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 18 | Powerful amplifiers can be turned down for a small hall , but a weak amplifier has no potential for increased volume before it starts distorting the sound . |
| 19 | If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one . |
| 20 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 21 | They were turned down at the one where they were married and christened because they 'd moved five miles outside the parish . |
| 22 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 23 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 24 | They were turned down by the Minister of Traffic and Waterways , Mrs Maij-Weggen , and it seemed that the idea , which was abandoned . |
| 25 | Similar proposals from the company for Hillington were turned down by the Scottish Secretary last March , after a public inquiry , on the grounds that the site is zoned for strategic industrial use . |
| 26 | More than two negative reasons for accepting a job can take a heavy toll on your resources of enthusiasm , particularly if you had the added disappointment of being turned down for the post you 'd really hoped for at the time . |
| 27 | And despite selling striker Teddy Sheringham to Tottenham last week for £2.1m , Forest are still busy searching the market for a replacement after being turned down in a £1.5m move for Arsenal 's Alan Smith . |
| 28 | TRUE Brit Wayne Batterbee was turned down for a job — because he has the Union Jack tattooed on his hand . |
| 29 | MOTORIST Steve Hopwood was turned down for a disabled parking pass — even though he has only one arm and one leg . |
| 30 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |