Example sentences of "[adv] on [adj] grounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the extreme , of course , local people may object strongly to a project ( eg on environmental grounds ) , and force a design change or even the abandonment of the project , so that public attitudes may become an important issue . |
| 2 | Unlike the people of the other Islamic groups , the Hui look Chinese : they are racially Chinese rather than Turkic and their classification as a ‘ national minority ’ is almost entirely on religious grounds . |
| 3 | The Labour Party opposed the agreement fervently but almost entirely on political grounds . |
| 4 | Both of the former two mosaics were attributed to the fourth century ( entirely on stylistic grounds ) , and by virtue of its association with the saltire mosaic ( pI . |
| 5 | In a seemingly contradictory move , however , Koos van der Merwe , one of the party 's most enthusiastic supporters of negotiations , was expelled from the CP on April 27 apparently on disciplinary grounds . |
| 6 | Unarmed service would also be officially allowed henceforth on conscientious grounds . |
| 7 | It does so on two grounds : that Duran is no longer a champion and that he may not be fit . |
| 8 | He did so on two grounds : first , that the document had not been duly executed in accordance with the requirements of section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 , as substituted for the original section by section 17 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 ; and , secondly , that the deceased lacked testamentary capacity . |
| 9 | However , some people like to mix their own concrete ; others do so on financial grounds , while a few feel that the lorry can not get close enough to the site to make the upheaval that it inevitably causes worthwhile . |
| 10 | After an examination procedure lasting on average 13 months , only about 9 per cent were found to be genuine political refugees , but many others stayed on illegally or were permitted to do so on humanitarian grounds . |
| 11 | It requires three visits to a hospital after a woman has been accepted as legally entitled to an abortion — which means she must have the agreement of two doctors and ‘ qualify for ’ the abortion only on certain grounds . |
| 12 | However , this is only on procedural grounds and not , as in the United States , on the merits of the decision , that is on whether it conforms to the judicial view of what the constitution requires . |
| 13 | The Court of Appeal has power to receive fresh evidence only on special grounds . |
| 14 | If he boldly avowed his real purpose thus publicly , he put himself in the wrong , and his cause past any help from the law , which would tamper here in the march only on unassailable grounds . |
| 15 | There was a strong case for an energy conservation programme , if only on psychological grounds . |
| 16 | My Service wanted me to try and penetrate it , just on general grounds , but I told them : the whole point is not to have their names on our files , all ready for the Soviets to take over . |
| 17 | Two recent reports from UBS Phillips & Drew and Midland Montagu both plump for an early election , largely on economic grounds . |
| 18 | The final result of the debate , in which Cripps was attacked largely on personal grounds , was the confirmation of his expulsion by 2,100,000 votes to 402,000 . |
| 19 | But we are always on dangerous grounds if we accept this as anything other than a last resort in the absence of really adequate evidence of evolving fossil lineages . |
| 20 | APLAN by cross-Channel ferry rivals Sealink and P&O to operate a joint service to combat the threat of the fixed tunnel link was blocked by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission yesterday on anti-competition grounds . |
| 21 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 22 | Critics claimed , however , that the delay , ostensibly on these grounds , in practice allowed scope for Gandhi and a deeply divided Congress ( I ) party to see whether a government could be patched together . |
| 23 | The CBI table highlights the fact that local laws may apply to merger proposals , not only on competition grounds but also on other grounds , for example where it is deemed to be in the national interest to prevent foreign control in certain sectors such as maritime and air transport , banking and insurance . |
| 24 | Most of us , I think , would be dismayed by " checkerboard " laws that treat similar accidents or occasions of racial discrimination or abortion differently on arbitrary grounds . |
| 25 | I suspected that he did n't laugh much , probably on religious grounds . |
| 26 | Thus Thomas Merriam has used these methods to try to show that Sir Thomas More is the genuine work of Shakespeare , and it was partly on stylometric grounds that the poem ‘ Shall I die ? ’ won its place in the Oxford Shakespeare . |
| 27 | You are directly discriminated against if treated less favourably than a person of the opposite sex is or would be treated , or if you are treated less favourably on racial grounds . |
| 28 | The decision to employ contractors is made rarely solely on economic grounds . |
| 29 | He was paid off eventually , supposedly on medical grounds , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Induction can not be justified purely on logical grounds . |