Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burton 's approach can be seriously criticized on the grounds that he pays little attention to such problems as the globalization of capital , class struggle or ideology , and that he often appears to confuse society and system at both the descriptive and the conceptual levels . |
| 2 | He does not have to believe on reasonable grounds that he has reasonable grounds for making the demand and so on : Lambert [ 1972 ] Crim LR 422 , where the accused threatened to tell the victim 's employers of his affair with the accused 's wife . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the above analysis may be justifiably criticised on the grounds that it compares two surveys which employed different agencies to reach their estimates of the prevalence of known opioid use . |
| 4 | Kuhn 's demarcation criterion has been criticized by Popper on the grounds that it gives undue emphasis to the role of criticism in science ; by Lakatos because , among other things , it misses the importance of competition between research programmes ( or paradigms ) ; and by Feyerabend on the grounds that Kuhn 's distinction leads to the conclusion that organized crime and Oxford philosophy qualify as science . |
| 5 | A third consequence of Gandhi 's insistence on the imperfect nature of particular forms of religions is his plea for the spirit of toleration between religions on the grounds that it increases spiritual insight and gives a better understanding of one 's own faith . |
| 6 | ‘ They object to nuclear power on the grounds that it releases radioactive nuclides into the air . |