Example sentences of "[noun prp] on [adj] grounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court was told O'Connor had resigned from the force in December on medical grounds . |
| 2 | Erich Honecker , the former East German leader given refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow in December , sought permission to travel to relatives in Chile on compassionate grounds , claiming that the condition of his health was such that he might not live much longer . |
| 3 | The famous Curé d'Ars would have failed an ACCM on academic grounds and St Paul would have been rejected for other reasons . |
| 4 | Nor , incidentally , will there be any point in my arguing that I have voted for Hazel on personal grounds and with no political intention : Hazel is a Nutty Party candidate and will if elected accept that Party 's whip . |
| 5 | Salisbury on educational grounds quotes the Plowden Report of 1967 ( 2 ) . |
| 6 | It is possible to argue against Moscovitch on various grounds ( see Selnes , 1974 ; Ulrich , 1978 ) and his theory is certainly difficult to test experimentally . |
| 7 | Hirst ( 1975 ) , for example , was a particular opponent of the position of Taylor , Walton and Young on various grounds . |
| 8 | Originally , France had argued for these plans to be confirmed by popular referendum ( de Gaulle 's favoured electoral ploy ) , but this was strongly opposed by West Germany on constitutional grounds . |
| 9 | Until recently it also supplied M & N Norman Timber , but this company has since stopped taking mahogany from Maginco on environmental grounds . |
| 10 | He justified the return to Theo on economic grounds , while stifling a feeling of failure that was liable to erupt in displays of growling boorishness . |
| 11 | The Soviet Union and Vietnam oppose the idea of a separate neutralisation of Kampuchea on similar grounds . |