Example sentences of "ground that it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 2 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 3 | It was the first contact between the LDP and the North Korean government , and marked a significant shift in policy by the latter communist regime , which had hitherto rejected overtures from the Japanese government on the grounds that it had diplomatic relations with South Korea . |
| 4 | Approval of the treaty had at first been opposed by West Germany 's Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) on the grounds that it offered inadequate protection for East German industry , and that environmental guarantees were insufficient . |
| 5 | Although the Accord was approved by most of the provinces by the end of 1988 , Manitoba and New Brunswick had withheld ratification on the grounds that it offered insufficient protection to Quebec 's English-speaking minority . |
| 6 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 7 | The government 's emphasis on cash crop production was criticized on the grounds that it favoured wealthy exporters rather than small farmers and had hindered industrial development . |