Example sentences of "refusing to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worst of all , Christ Church Canterbury was burnt in 1011 and its archbishop murdered the following year after refusing to be ransomed . |
| 2 | ‘ Daahling , it 's David , I 'm calling you from behind a tree , ’ he cooed into his ministerial mobile , refusing to be daunted by the haughty stares of the opera world . |
| 3 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 4 | Pushing at a line of policemen or refusing to be moved on is acceptable ; throwing bricks is not . |
| 5 | He had defied his father ; refusing to be trained as the servant of a T'ang . |
| 6 | Our psyches are simply refusing to be overloaded . |
| 7 | An Teallach reappears at close range and dominates the scene , refusing to be ignored . |
| 8 | The practical questions scratched at her consciousness , refusing to be ignored . |
| 9 | Morbidly inward , unforgiving , Cave goes against the grain of the times by being sick but refusing to be healed and integrated . |
| 10 | Refusing to be tested or coming up positive usually results in immediate sacking . |
| 11 | For the first time , perhaps because by now there was a " critical mass " of older and more experienced women to take a lead , we find some women taking a stand specifically on the definition of skill , and refusing to be absorbed into an " unskilled union " . |
| 12 | Such a picture is of necessity tragic , and this " tragic " dialectical interaction between the objective social forces crushing men and women in their everyday lives , and the dynamic subjective response of those same men and women refusing to be crushed , has as its counterpart a " tragic " dialectical interaction between revolutionary writer and oppressed reading public . |
| 13 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 14 | With the rise of the fascist menace , the bourgeois educational system was no longer perceived as the site of idealistic mystification , but rather as the site of a political struggle ; a political struggle in which the vast majority of the teaching profession , committed to the idea of cultural enlightenment , were refusing to be silenced , gagged by a bourgeois state progressively more dominated by fascist ideas at a time of deepening political crisis . |
| 15 | Refusing to be beaten , he decided to tackle the problem head on ; reminding himself that otherwise he would spend the rest of his life wondering . |
| 16 | Refusing to be intimidated by the sheer size of him , Leonora glared up into his face . |
| 17 | Application for revocation of an order for committal of the debtor under s 23(7) of the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 must be made to the judge ex parte in writing explaining the reason for failure to attend court or refusing to be sworn or to give evidence , and undertaking to comply in future ( Ord 27 , r 8(2) ) . |
| 18 | but that she was also winning something of a reputation as a tough cookie , a determined career girl refusing to be deflected from her dreams . |
| 19 | Their absence will cause a major reshuffle of the side by Lithuania 's coach Algi Mantas Liubinskas but Irish manager Jack Charlton is refusing to be carried away by what seems an unexpected boost . |
| 20 | All over the world individuals are asserting themselves and refusing to be codified , or grouped or collectivized . |
| 21 | ‘ And you grew up in Hong Kong ? ’ she persisted , refusing to be deterred . |
| 22 | I asked , refusing to be cowed . |
| 23 | ‘ And you should not ask me that , either , ’ said Sally-Anne , head erect , carriage proud , refusing to be won over . |
| 24 | Refusing to be excluded from this growing sector , the company started to make and sell ‘ minis ’ developed by one of its shareholders , the American firm Honeywell . |
| 25 | ‘ Grief , no ! ’ she exclaimed , and , refusing to be flattened , was a touch uppity herself , she had to own . |
| 26 | The taxi-driver , refusing to be hurried by Myeloski 's threats and curses , kept the Moskvich firmly planted behind a big lorry for most of the journey . |
| 27 | Is it true that , while refusing to be interrogated by the House and on television , he is carrying out government by press conference , as he is holding one tomorrow ? |
| 28 | I gritted my teeth and nodded , refusing to be drawn . |
| 29 | ‘ Basically , by staying here , but refusing to be drawn . |
| 30 | Sir Richard just glared , refusing to be drawn into Cranston 's riddle . |