Example sentences of "reason for refuse " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We still believe that , in the circumstances , we had no sustainable reason for refusing membership to two companies .
2 Nearly two weeks later the police admitted that this was not sufficient reason for refusing bail .
3 ‘ What is your reason for refusing ? ’
4 Should the reason for refusing to do one 's duty as a soldier be loss of belief in the efficacy of war then that could well be interpreted as a choice of ahi sā .
5 Suddenly it occurred to me to wonder if this was her real reason for refusing to discuss Red Leland .
6 I did not want to hurt his feelings by saying I would manage far quicker alone , so I used an equally true reason for refusing his offer .
7 Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office .
8 If she had wanted a husband , she could not have found a good reason for refusing to marry him .
9 The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher was not considered in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) , though it has been argued elsewhere in this book that there is no reason for refusing to apply the principles of foreseeability as developed since The Wagon Mound .
10 She felt he had some other reason for refusing but ho would not admit to it .
11 This is obviously a safer course than renewing the writ although it was said in Sisknys v Hanley ( 1982 ) The Times , 26 May that the fact that the plaintiff 's solicitor could have but did not use this substituted service procedure was not a good reason for refusing renewal .
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