Example sentences of "refusing to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , the good art critic should be the reader 's friend in refusing to be impressed by art market prices . |
| 2 | Refusing to be tested or coming up positive usually results in immediate sacking . |
| 3 | Morbidly inward , unforgiving , Cave goes against the grain of the times by being sick but refusing to be healed and integrated . |
| 4 | This instrument of control , however , is the least effective of the three because , in contrast to the good old days , parts of the press are refusing to be browbeaten . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Pushing at a line of policemen or refusing to be moved on is acceptable ; throwing bricks is not . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I gritted my teeth and nodded , refusing to be drawn . |
| 9 | Refusing to be concerned with your own authority or status |
| 10 | The essential ingredients of gaining control of your time are knowing what is important and what is less so , ruthlessly putting your precious time and energy where it will produce the highest return and refusing to be swamped with other people 's inefficiency . |
| 11 | Parents who are secure enough to give reasons , to show understanding and to listen carefully know their authority is not threatened by ‘ giving ’ a little , by refusing to be ‘ unbending ’ at all times . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We could say that the conflict in any modern marriage is between the needs of self , the needs of the partnership ( each partner wanting to support the other , but refusing to be swamped by or subjugated to the other ) , the needs of children , the needs of the family as a group and the needs of those outside the family . |
| 14 | Barton Bank 's trainer David Nicholson is refusing to be scared away after watching his imposing gelding beat Young Hustler seven lengths at Cheltenaham . |
| 15 | After refusing to be a Jesuit , he then refused to be an atheist . |
| 16 | Ellen , refusing to be sidetracked from her lost dollars , asked in a sulky and defiant voice . |
| 17 | I could only resolve the confusion by refusing to be involved with any political activity . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | An Teallach reappears at close range and dominates the scene , refusing to be ignored . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All over the world individuals are asserting themselves and refusing to be codified , or grouped or collectivized . |
| 22 | They not only face the dangers of living in a war-torn society , but also risk torture or death for wanting to tell the truth as they see it and for refusing to be a part of the various propaganda machines that are fuelling the present conflict . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | Our psyches are simply refusing to be overloaded . |
| 25 | ‘ Basically , by staying here , but refusing to be drawn . |
| 26 | Josh set his jaw grimly , refusing to be browbeaten . |
| 27 | He had defied his father ; refusing to be trained as the servant of a T'ang . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |