Example sentences of "[verb] be turn down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | President Chissano had offered an immediate armistice , but this had been turned down by the rebel leader . |
| 6 | Later , it emerged that Caledonian Mining had sought a controlling interest rather than an outright takeover , but had been turned down by the consortium . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |