Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] [be] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eden continues to eschew either Go Corp 's PenPoint or Microsoft 's Windows for Pen Computing on the grounds that they are too resource-hungry : instead the developer gets MS-DOS and access to the handwriting recognition and graphic interface hooks built into ROM . |
| 2 | Generally , he was not allowed to photograph any of the original wooden stations on the grounds that they were too old , presumably an affront to Soviet progressivism and modernity . |
| 3 | These refusals were mainly from relatively high-status households , and where they were not categorical ( for example , people sometimes excused themselves on the grounds that they were too busy to be interviewed ) , were dealt with initially by a follow-up visit . |
| 4 | Gran kept her supplied with them , on the grounds that she was too thin . |
| 5 | having found themselves for no good reason sitting together : Liz and Alix discovered that both came from Yorkshire , and that neither played lacrosse , nor had ever seen it being played , and Esther joined the discussion by volunteering that she had herself managed to avoid playing netball for the past three years on the grounds that she was too small . |
| 6 | Rockefeller , a member of the oil and banking family , explained his decision on the grounds that there was too little time to organise a successful campaign and to be ready to form an administration which would meet his " own high standards " . |
| 7 | JOAN BAEZ , the American folk singer , was heaped with flowers and apologies yesterday after night club bouncers in Mannheim had barred her from entry on the grounds that there were too many foreigners in the clubs already . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was turned down for an insurance policy on the grounds that he was too old . |
| 10 | Chief Justice Gilbert Austin had been rejected by the Group of 12 , however , on the grounds that he was too closely associated with Avril . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the communists refused to support the left 's call for a transitional government headed by Mendès-France on the grounds that he was too closely associated with the new movement . |
| 12 | However , the navy and many MPs are likely to oppose Mr Kaifu 's plan , currently the government 's official position , when next year 's budget comes before parliament on the grounds that it is too expensive . |
| 13 | Pro-abortion groups also oppose the protocol on the grounds that it is too restrictive . |
| 14 | OUTRAGED AND CONCERNED PARENTS hope to ban Margaret Atwood 's novel , ‘ The Handmaid 's Tale ’ , on the grounds that it is too sexually explicit and anti-Christian to be read by high school seniors . |
| 15 | Governor Cecil Andrus , a conservative anti-abortion Democrat , vetoed the legislation on March 30 on the grounds that it was too restrictive . |
| 16 | The Soviet side formally rejected this in the course of the Washington talks on the grounds that it was too limited and one-sided , because it ignored both sea- and air-based MIRVs . |
| 17 | The committee voted to end production of the B-2 on the grounds that it was too expensive ( the lowest estimates suggested a cost of $865 million per aircraft ) and that its mission was too ill-defined . |
| 18 | Samir Geaga , head of the ( Christian ) Lebanese Forces militia , resigned formally on March 20 his nominal post of Minister of State in the government of national unity , which he had boycotted since its formation in December on the grounds that it was too pro-Syrian . |
| 19 | The Liberal Party ( formerly the National Liberal Party — Young Wing ) withdrew from the Charter for Reform and Democracy ( a grouping formed in July 1991 including the ruling National Salvation Front ) on the grounds that it was too closely linked with the structures of the former government . |
| 20 | The unexpected rejection came about because the former communist Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) and the right-wing Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) opposed the programme on the grounds that it was too rigorous , while the Democratic Union ( UD ) and the Liberal Democratic Congress ( KLD ) opposed the programme on the grounds that it was not tough enough . |
| 21 | The measure was opposed by Bush and by many Republican legislators on the grounds that it was too lavish . |
| 22 | He also cites a recent disastrous attempt to build a golf course at Vung Tau , 120 km south-west of the city , where a Taiwanese company clear-felled forest before abandoning the site on the grounds that it was too windy for golf . |
| 23 | 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 . |