Example sentences of "refused [prep] [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having twice refused on the grounds that he had first to win Tangier and Ceuta ( which he accomplished in 1084 ) , Yusuf finally turned his attention to Spain at Motamid 's third desperate request . |
| 2 | The request was refused on the grounds that the Masai needed the land — a response which must have confirmed Anderson 's dim view of the administration . |
| 3 | On 6 November 1905 , 3,000 working women marched silently from Walworth and Poplar to Westminster , after Lansbury 's request that the Queen should receive a delegation of unemployed women was refused on the grounds that it was ‘ contrary to all custom and quite impossible ’ . |
| 4 | Their applications were refused on the grounds that they did not meet the admission criteria . |
| 5 | After a certain period a job can not be refused on the grounds of low pay or travelling distance from home . |
| 6 | He began work as a mining engineer in Lanarkshire and applied to Alexander Hamilton Douglas , tenth Duke of Hamilton [ q.v. ] , for permission to open a new mine on his land , but was refused on the grounds that he was too young for such responsibility . |
| 7 | A request by opposition parties to allow a transitional period during which the newly formed parties could prepare for elections was refused on the grounds that the election dates were specified in the Constitution . |
| 8 | For example that of Joe and Biddy which turns out to be a very happy , contented marriage reflecting around home life and this marriage depriving Pip of the chance to propose to Biddy though I think that she would have refused on the grounds that he was still in love with Estella . |
| 9 | They were 99.9 per cent refused on the grounds of the traffic access and this plan appears to be the answer , ’ he said . |
| 10 | When Mr Bernard Corker , who owns the business , applied for retrospective planning permission the council refused on the grounds that it was too noisy , conflicted with proposed parking standards and did not fit in with the character of the residential area . |
| 11 | Mr Major has refused on the grounds that legal advice to the Government is traditionally confidential . |
| 12 | But he claims his request for details of the regulations was refused on the ground that they are ‘ very severe ’ and that Cameron Balloons would find it impossible to meet them . |
| 13 | Relief has also been refused on the ground that the applicant has in the past behaved badly in dealings with the respondent and so is undeserving of assistance . |
| 14 | ( ii ) The plaintiffs contend that variation should be refused on the ground that the information which led the Bank of England to issue the section 39 notice became available to them as a result of a serious contempt of court committed by the defendants in breach of the injunction . |
| 15 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |
| 16 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |