Example sentences of "closed to them " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we ask what it was about this society which made Pound and also Lewis affront it more or less deliberately , to ensure that its doors were closed to them , I think only one answer is possible : it was ineradicably vowed to the idea of the artist as the amateur . |
| 2 | The Americans are complaining that the Japanese market is closed to them . |
| 3 | The Japanese are replying that the US market is closed to them . |
| 4 | They would miss it sorely when it was closed to them , and there seemed no chance now that it would n't be . |
| 5 | a ‘ cross-curricular ’ view focuses on the school : it emphasises that all teachers ( of English and of other subjects ) have a responsibility to help children with the language demands of different subjects on the school curriculum : otherwise areas of the curriculum may be closed to them . |
| 6 | If pupils do not have access to Standard English then many important opportunities are closed to them , in cultural activities , in further and higher education , and in industry , commerce and the professions . |
| 7 | Because I lived away from men for so long , part of me is now permanently closed to them . |
| 8 | Lowland fear of the Highland Scots was another powerful motive for Union , but the effect was to give eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotsmen opportunities in the British Empire that had previously been closed to them . |
| 9 | In the following year they staged a number of occupations of churches , but even that avenue of protest was closed to them in the end , because it became too dangerous . |
| 10 | They may find respectable society and lawful opportunities closed to them while unlawful ones are opened up ( custodial institutions are notoriously ‘ schools for crime ’ where offenders can meet each other , learn criminal techniques and enter into a criminal sub-culture ) , and their self-image may change from that of a law-abiding person to that of a deviant . |
| 11 | Remember , they are poll tax payers , too , and the parks should not be closed to them . |
| 12 | They could be found in low-grade clerical jobs , but positions like drivers , conductors , clerks in contact with the public , telegraphers , station agents , and train dispatchers were all closed to them . |
| 13 | It has also been found in the following four contexts : ( 31 ) " The living have never used that road since the coming of the Roherrim , " said Aragorn , " for it is closed to them . |
| 14 | As the trade union movement has found out in recent times , sometimes to its painful cost , modern capitalism and exploitation does not recognize international frontiers and employers and their political supporters are not slow to export their practices to countries whose borders have previously been closed to them . |