Example sentences of "[noun] refused to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett refused to be ruffled . |
| 2 | It would all be wasted effort , of course , if Balliol refused to be enticed out from Roxburgh Castle . |
| 3 | In the March 1990 elections to the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies , many Communist Party members , who had been nominated as candidates refused to be part of the official parliamentary fraction of the CPSU . |
| 4 | Manville refused to be put off by the objections . |
| 5 | The Tobacco Advisory Council refused to be interviewed , but said they were happy that the industry was keeping to the code . |
| 6 | But McDermott refused to be denied completely and he had number five batsman Saeed Anwar caught in the slips for 13 in his 20th over . |
| 7 | A parent refused to be bound over , saying : ‘ When I send him out of the house in the morning to go to school , I do n't know what he 'll be doing all day ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ In one case a parent refused to be bound over , saying : ‘ When I send him out of the house in the morning to go to school , I do n't know what he 'll be doing all day ’ . |
| 9 | Sebastian refused to be quashed , then found that as he did n't have what was called a proper income he had problems in obtaining a mortgage . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State , Peter Brook refused to be drawn on details of the operation . |
| 11 | Breeze refused to be daunted . |
| 12 | Descartes refused to be sure even of the reality of the external universe until he had proved a priori to his own satisfaction that he was not dreaming it . |
| 13 | His courage refused to be bolstered . |
| 14 | Of these 123 , a full interview was obtained with l04 principal carers at the time of the patient 's referral to the project ( six carers refused to be interviewed , and it was not possible to interview a further nine for reasons such as the carer 's ill health or death or because the patient and carer soon moved out of the area ; for the remaining four some information was obtained by telephone ) . |
| 15 | Candy refused to be budged . |
| 16 | But the Europeans refused to be convinced by American arguments that the credibility of the overall American guarantee to Europe would in fact be increased if sufficient forces could be deployed to make the the strategy of flexible response a reality . |
| 17 | PREMIER John Major last night refused to be intimidated by a chilling threat to the lives of 2,500 British troops in Bosnia . |
| 18 | PREMIER John Major last night refused to be intimidated by a threat to the lives of 2,500 British troops in Bosnia . |
| 19 | At his news conference , Mr Ashdown refused to be drawn on how many Cabinet seats he would seek in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 20 | Millichip refused to be drawn further and then fudged the issue by saying : ‘ This does not mean there is a question mark over the manager but we have to examine the situation . ’ |
| 21 | If Mr Dunn the debtor refused to be cowed by this threat , Mr Rich the creditor would tell the bailiffs to take the belongings out of the house — and for that service he paid the bailiffs a fixed fee . |
| 22 | Jaq refused to be distracted . |
| 23 | In 1939 , Pétain refused to be a candidate for the Presidency , recalling that he had once described it as only ‘ suitable for defeated marshals ’ . |
| 24 | Despite repeated requests , the magistrates who gave Hagans bail refused to be interviewed . |
| 25 | But Everton manager Howard Kendall refused to be drawn by suggestions that the tackle was malicious . |
| 26 | One particularly gifted black student refused to be stereotyped into teaching only ESOl and literacy by potential employers . |
| 27 | The DUP 's Gregory Campbell refused to be drawn on his party 's attitude to the issue . |
| 28 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 29 | Mansell refused to be reconciled with Prost , with whom he fell out when the two were team-mates at Ferrari in 1991 , and promptly signed the US deal despite taking an estimated cut of half his salary . |
| 30 | Steve refused to be drawn when Willie Carson set a suicidal pace on Jahafil , but was still far enough ahead of the others to have a winning lead off the final bend . |