Example sentences of "refused [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In the end the company , under huge pressure from the local community , refused permission for the NIREX surveyors to even make an initial survey of the mine galleries .
2 The district council and a planning inspector refused permission for the incinerator at Cinderford .
3 However , one month after this deadline Judge Gilbert Thiel in Nancy refused permission for the objects to leave the city .
4 Langbaurgh planning councillors refused permission for the upgrading of a 275,000-volt line to carry 400,000 volts .
5 But when the orangs — who became known as the Taiwan Ten — reached Indonesia , the main Indonesian negotiator , Sutisna Wartaputra , director general of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation ( PHPA ) , changed his mind and refused permission for the animals to go to Tanjung Puting .
6 The case was brought by the PRS after the hotelier , John Hill , refused requests by the society to take out a £58 public performance licence .
7 The parents again refused consent for the operation , but the operation was eventually successfully conducted following the intervention of social workers and a woman judge .
8 Although Wembley were keen to stage the replay of the final , which will attract a capacity crowd of 80,000 , the FA refused consent for the match to go ahead .
9 Both she and her husband refused consent to the operation on religious grounds .
10 Not having seen Debord 's films ( he refused screenings at the ICA in London ) , Levin 's arguments are in one sense untestable ; nevertheless the article is not without difficulties .
11 Lord Haldane L. C. upheld the general principles in the Rice case but refused access to the housing inspector 's report or to the Board itself : when a matter is entrusted to a department of state or similar body , Parliament should be taken , subject to contrary intent , to have meant that it could follow its own procedure which would enable it to work with efficiency .
12 The SFO refused comment on the MP 's allegations or on when it will decide if any prosecutions should follow from the Fraser takeover .
13 But on 4 November 1991 , the Court of Appeal ( Cooke P. , Richardson and Hardie Boys JJ. ) held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4 October 1991 because that judgment was an interlocutory and not a final judgment and refused leave to the petitioner to appeal to the Board .
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