Example sentences of "refuses [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , while he is alive , Shaposhnikov the cappy man refuses to be parted from his headgear ; he grabs it when he determines to leave , and he drops it when he is persuaded to stay . |
| 2 | But these just happen to be his , he ca n't ‘ prescribe ’ them ‘ for art ’ ; what he wants to say must come to terms with what the form allows him ; art refuses to be imposed upon , to be dictated to , and Dostoevsky 's dictum will stand . |
| 3 | She refuses to be ornamental and will not go with her husband on state trips that do not interest her . |
| 4 | She refuses to be part of the general cosmetic industry hype . |
| 5 | Murray refuses to be intimidated by the ring of fielders . |
| 6 | Now preparing for the next ten years , Stevo refuses to be predictable . |
| 7 | Well , I think at first they were both afraid to become music specialists , but she knows so much now — good contemporary pop music , not just my music — that she wants to be involved with it and she refuses to be professionally involved unless she has expert knowledge . |
| 8 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 9 | If consent makes a touching lawful , then it must follow that if a patient withholds consent , if he refuses to be touched by a doctor , any further touching will be unlawful , and will give rise to civil and criminal liability . |
| 10 | He refuses to be filmed at the piano , but improvised the show 's incidental music which he can be heard playing off-camera . |
| 11 | Through an amplifier , the New York maintains its acoustic brightness and bluntly refuses to be anything other than a blank canvas . |
| 12 | But Mr Shiratori refuses to be downhearted . |
| 13 | The worst kind of witness is the one who swears to a fact about which he is quite wrong though quite sincere , and absolutely refuses to be shaken . |
| 14 | Laughton refuses to be drawn on the Leeds ' target , but he is keen on Great Britain tour scrum half Deryck Fox , valued at £150,000 after telling Featherstone he was determined to leave before the start of the new season . |
| 15 | Bernard says he flatly refuses to be done anywhere else . |
| 16 | Teddy refuses to be drawn on his early life and will only go as far back as the Biggin Hill Air Fair of June this year when Anita and Bob Armstrong ‘ adopted ’ him . |
| 17 | Microsoft refuses to be phased by emergence of united Unix front |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard refuses to be drawn into a debate about the kernel , insisting ‘ it is n't the issue . ’ |
| 19 | However , the real test comes if North Korea refuses to be helped . |
| 20 | HP refuses to be drawn into a debate about the kernel , insisting ‘ it is n't the issue . ’ |
| 21 | But Columbus in his dream refuses to be found . |
| 22 | The latest production to have commenced shooting in Dublin is ‘ Into The West ’ , the story of a re-housed gypsy who refuses to be parted from his horse — despite the fact that he has been moved to a high rise block . |
| 23 | It only lacks the overgrowth , which refuses to be mimicked , that delights both Emily in The Mysteries of Udolpho and Richard Payne Knight in his poem , The Landscape ( 1794 ) : |
| 24 | Political success was due to him because of an exceptional intelligence and independence of mind which resolutely refuses to be subservient to the political mandarins of his party . |
| 25 | There are only two human species left and the only bond between them is hatred : the one that crushes and the one that refuses to be crushed " when he pointedly remarked : " In a world brutally divided into those who rule and those who serve , the philosopher must finally acknowledge a long-concealed secret alliance with those who govern or else declare his solidarity with those who are governed . |
| 26 | The same refrain kept going round in his head like an infuriating jingle which refuses to be forgotten : the drawing-room at Buller 's Hill House , the kitchen at Jordan 's Farm , the sitting-room in the house on stilts and Laura Passmore 's living-room . |
| 27 | Like much of Penwith it has a powerful ethos which refuses to be submerged by the modern world ; the countryside is littered with artefacts spanning the centuries , from megalithic chamber tombs to nineteenth-century mine workings , and only the moron can escape a sense of continuity with an obligation to the past . |
| 28 | But Shakespeare 's manipulation ultimately disrupts Harsnett 's design : ‘ In Shakespeare , the realization that demonic possession is a theatrical imposture leads not to a clarification — the clear-eyed satisfaction of a man who refuses to be gulled — but to a deeper uncertainty , a loss of moorings , in the face of evil . ’ |
| 29 | In other words , the majority of work in these three shows refuses to be silenced by the weight of modernist authority , choosing instead to inhabit the body of tradition in the form of an uninvited and irrepressible guest . |
| 30 | This merchant refuses to be a caricature in the form of the character without individual " character " that his wife attempts to portray him as . |