Example sentences of "be [verb] on the grounds [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than one appeal concerned solely with the scale rather than the principle of whether there should be any development , has been dismissed on the grounds that the site was unsuitable for any development at all . |
| 2 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 3 | Shortly before this development , three magistrates who had been seconded to assist Sica had been withdrawn on the grounds that they were working too closely with the police , thereby prejudicing their independence as magistrates . |
| 4 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 5 | I detest the fact that so many famous paintings have been moved in the past , against the wishes of their creators ; and that the transfer of ‘ Guernica ’ has been justified on the grounds that it belongs to the State . |
| 6 | Large cuts in government funding have been justified on the grounds that those stand to benefit from ‘ near market ’ ( or readily exploitable ) research should pay for it ; government will fund the rest . |
| 7 | Or perhaps authority may come from some prestigious so the domain of the practitioner , as when techniques are recommended on the grounds that they have the warrant of proven theory . |
| 8 | The list also contains a very few phrases which apparently have no equivalents ( " soap opera " " Z cars " " facts of life " ) , but are included on the grounds that their constituent words have no relation to the meaning of the phrase . |
| 9 | While copyright cases have been won on the grounds that manuals , and other documents that go with software , have been copied , no one has yet been able to claim copyright on the syntax of a computer language . |
| 10 | It has been attacked on the grounds that it attempts to relate particular skills to different levels of management , or that it sectionalises/parochialises management thinking . |
| 11 | This view , as we shall see , has been attacked on the grounds that it rests on the false assumption that the distinction between adults and children is identical with the distinction between rational and non-rational beings . |
| 12 | Simmel 's work has been selected on the grounds that I consider it to be the most convincing analysis of modernity consistent with the concept of objectification as outlined here . |
| 13 | Debbie 's application for attendance allowance has already been squashed on the grounds that she knows the names of her mother , her sister and the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | The patriarchal structures of psychoanalytic theory have often been defended on the grounds that they only describe the current customs of a patriarchal society . |
| 15 | The propagandist view of literature , literature as illustration , tendentiousness , are denounced on the grounds that the desire to illustrate one particular ideological viewpoint at the expense of all else , has disastrous consequences at the artistic level since such an approach is at odds with any attempt to display the inherent contradictions and complexities within a given historical situation ; indeed , the case is quite the reverse : it actually masks such contradictions . |
| 16 | ‘ Chadwick v. Chadwick , 22 L.J.Ch. 329 may be explained on the grounds that a trustee , like an agent , can not resist discovery in an action in relation to the property which he is alleged to hold on trust . ’ |
| 17 | It can not be explained on the grounds that ordinary life is just as tragic ( art is not merely imitation of life ) or by reference to moral feelings or pity and fear . |
| 18 | The narrower approach to remoteness of damage in property damage cases could be explained on the grounds that the plaintiff is likely to be insured against such damage and that the extent of the damage in such cases could be great . |
| 19 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 20 | What stopped me in my tracks was a sentence reading , ‘ The dung beetle program really can not be justified on the grounds that it is cheaper than a horse ’ . |
| 21 | Huge cuts in EPA 's research Funds ( down by nearly 50 per cent since Reagan took office ) can perhaps be justified on the grounds that , in hard times , scientific priorities can be temporarily reshuffled with little or no long-term damage . |
| 22 | On the other hand , in the case of his daughter and the justification offered for taking her life , it might be argued that , similar acts of violence could be justified on the grounds that the ultimate goal is the redemption of souls . |
| 23 | This practice can be justified on the grounds that many narrative pieces , including those related in our extract , were written separately in Germany in 1798–9 ; and so the philosophy can be regarded as a later intrusion . |
| 24 | Their answer to the question they pose is to say that education systems are to be justified on the grounds that they develop ‘ intellectual competence that would otherwise go largely undeveloped ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) . |
| 25 | This emphasis could be justified on the grounds that economics or at least a version of it — lies currently at the heart of government discourse on higher education , but it also reflects the fact that there is more to go on , in terms of information and analysis , with this aspect of the undergraduate curriculum than with the other seven . |
| 26 | In some schools , there is a tendency for any work to be justified on the grounds that it is ‘ part of a project ’ rather than because of its educational value . |
| 27 | The defence argument was solely that Caldwell could be distinguished on the grounds that in DPP v K there was a gap between the accused 's act and the injury , an argument which the court rejected . |
| 28 | Of course these too can be criticized on the grounds that they lack precision , and carry with them built-in biases , impeding both our understanding of our own field experience as well as obstructing cross-cultural understanding . |
| 29 | This procedure might be criticized on the grounds that the sample is too small to justify it . |
| 30 | To count such comments as these as indicative of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with housework may perhaps be criticized on the grounds that what these women are talking about is not the housework situation , but marriage . |