Example sentences of "grounds that it [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The National Association for Staff Development ( NASD ) , for example , characterized it as ‘ a meagre preliminary to what should be an urgent discussion of a markedly neglected topic ’ , and the Regional Management Centres Association ( RMCA ) found little sympathy for the discussion paper on the grounds that it reflected a traditional approach to staff development .
2 Syria , which signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) in 1969 , had previously declined to conclude such an agreement on the grounds that it had no nuclear installations .
3 The Slovak Republic Prime Minister , Jan Carnogursky , had objected to this on the grounds that it ignored the separate existence of Slovakia ( as a Nazi protectorate ) from 1938 to 1945 .
4 The republics failed , however , to reach agreement on a council for railway transport ( Ukraine objecting on the grounds that it resembled the former USSR Railway Ministry ) , and also on the organization of economic links .
5 This was frequently denounced by critics of the democracy on the grounds that it introduced a pecuniary motive .
6 Louis B. Wright 's Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England is welcomed by C. Bowie Millican on the grounds that it confirms a healthy trend in literary research whereby antiquarian , statistical , and editorial work are made to contribute to a broader and more comprehensive " cultural synthesis " : " it is the proper evaluation of such information … that leads to perspective and reveals literature to be both a continuum and a truthful mirror of life .
7 Others have criticised such a view on the grounds that it introduces an undesirable ambiguity into the concept of existence , and have argued that propositions of this kind should not be taken at their face value but should be paraphrased in such a way as to prevent spurious names from usurping the role of subjects .
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