Example sentences of "[be] rejected [prep] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candidates could be rejected on grounds including character ; they had to be at least 45 years of age and have financial management skills . |
| 2 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 3 | Today , a formal lowering of the male retirement age to 60 has been rejected on grounds of cost , but high rates of unemployment among the 60–64 age-group , together with official encouragement for unemployed men to leave the labour force , amounts to an informal de facto policy of increasing early retirement for men . |
| 4 | It was rejected on grounds of cost and the problem of enforcing the retirement condition . |
| 5 | This was rejected on grounds of ease of use and familiarity with the 100 per cent marking scale . |