Example sentences of "ground for [verb] [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see no ground for concluding that the omission of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ was inadvertent and not deliberate , and to read the subsection as if they were included is , in my opinion , wholly unwarranted . |
| 2 | These exceptional cases apart ( and it must be recalled that they are not really examples of the situation under discussion ) , it has been seen that there is no good ground for arguing that the doctor breaches his duty to his patient when respecting the patient 's wishes to be left to die . |
| 3 | Although supporting evidence from other departments is so far lacking , there is at least prima facie ground for saying that the intrusion of laymen into the bureaucracy brought about the conversion of offices into a form of life property . |
| 4 | October 20 : Sir Godfray Le Quesne 's inquiry is judged by Lord Young to have found no grounds for concluding that the Government 's actions caused the losses . |
| 5 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |
| 6 | It would only be right to have regard to facilities if there are objective grounds for believing that the lender will fulfil his commitment . |
| 7 | ( a ) Interim care and supervision orders Under s38(1) ( 2 ) the court can make an interim care or supervision order whenever the proceedings are adjourned provided it is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the child 's circumstances fall within the ambit of s31(2) . |
| 8 | A constable has a right to search for a weapon if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the suspect might present a danger to himself or others , for example because he was acting violently or was drunk or suicidal . |
| 9 | The end result of this case is that the police have a power to enter and search any premises for the purpose of recapturing a person unlawfully at large , provided he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is on those premises ( s. 17(1) ( d ) & ( 2 ) of PACE and that they have the power to use reasonable force in effecting entry and arresting the person sought ( s.117 of PACE ) . |
| 10 | In practice there are strong grounds for believing that the money stock is not entirely exogenous . |
| 11 | In the case of serious arrestable offences the rights can be postponed for up to 36 hours on the authority of an officer of at least the rank of superintendent if that officer has reasonable grounds for believing that the exercise of either right would : ( a ) lead to interference with evidence connected with a serious arrestable offence ; ( b ) lead to interference with or physical injury to other persons ; ( c ) " tip-off " other persons suspected of a serious arrestable offence ; ( d ) hinder the recovery of property . |
| 12 | There remained grounds for believing that the mass of the working class could be persuaded to support a modified status quo and wider acceptance that the claims of labour for better conditions were either legitimate or , at least , necessitated some compromise to avoid a more threatening mass move to the left . |
| 13 | Instead , there are good grounds for believing that the listener constructs a syntactic and semantic interpretation of the input word-by-word , and that this information is used to guide the processing of subsequent words . |
| 14 | Perhaps most importantly , it would seem that we have no grounds for believing that the meaning of a word , when viewed in this fashion , is finitely describable — without severe circumscription it is an unpromising candidate for formalisation , or representation in terms of logical or quasi-mathematical formulae . |
| 15 | All this gave strong grounds for believing that the body had been put into the sea near the house on stilts about the time of high water on Friday night . |
| 16 | Indeed , we have good grounds for believing that the information that we have been given is accurate : I know that my Hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North would not have read out that list without a solid belief that the property speculators were busy . |
| 17 | Having lived through the case in considerable detail since the writ was delivered in 1989 , nearly seven years after the audit report in question was signed off , I think I can say that there are some better grounds for believing that the result is good for the profession than are implied in your brief summary . |
| 18 | The structure of section 7 , in my view , clearly contemplates the constable who has arrested the person bailed bringing him before the justice and stating his , that is to say the constable 's , grounds for believing that the defendant has broken a condition of his bail . |
| 19 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 20 | There are grounds for suggesting that the market test can produce perverse incentives , as we have seen in Chapter 3 . |
| 21 | Furthermore , there are good grounds for assuming that the distinction between sentence processing and discourse processing is by no means a clear one . |
| 22 | There were reasonable grounds for hoping that the Salt 11 Treaty would be ratified by the American Congress , prohibiting deployment of the cruise devices for two years . |
| 23 | If the defendant proves that he was not aware and had no reasonable grounds for supposing that the patent existed , then neither damages nor accounts of profits are available . |
| 24 | In fact , there are grounds for suspecting that the conflict between static inefficiency and dynamic progressiveness is often more apparent than real , and , as we have seen , it is not entirely clear that cooperative R&D ventures significantly weaken those conflicts which do exist . |
| 25 | That Fido eats from the bowl of meat rather than from that containing eggplant is ‘ grounds for saying that the dog prefers his normal food ’ ( 85 ) . |
| 26 | But there may be powerful grounds for saying that the command economy , is the culprit , rather than the management of it . |