Example sentences of "ground for [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was fertile ground for inculcating the view of politics as technique . |
| 2 | But Equity treated such pressure as a ground for holding the transaction voidable . |
| 3 | I can therefore find no ground for drawing the narrow distinction and would hold that in the case of all in-house benefits the same test applies , viz. the cost of the benefit to the employer is the additional or marginal cost only . |
| 4 | The delivery of a request for further and better particulars is not a condition precedent to the making of an order for them , but the failure to make a prior request is a ground for refusing the order : Ord 6 , r 7 . |
| 5 | As to the second stage , like the Court of Appeal I can see no ground for impugning the grounds for decision stated in the letter to Mr. Choudhury . |
| 6 | This leads to the applicant 's second ground for supporting the judgment under appeal , namely that whatever the words of the Act may mean , they must be understood as qualified by a tacit exception , preserving the ancient right of silence in its particular manifestation of the immunity from being asked questions after charge , previously embodied in the Judges ' Rules and carried forward into paragraph 16.5 of Code C. |
| 7 | This Protocol has been cited as one ground for asserting the illegality of nuclear weapons , even in the absence of any specific written agreement about the latter . |
| 8 | Even if the Charter should contain restrictions on its freedom of action , acts transgressing such restrictions are probably not void , though they may be a ground for revoking the Charter . |
| 9 | We were not persuaded that this was a sufficient ground for distinguishing the two cases . |
| 10 | But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 11 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 12 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 13 | In those defamation cases where journalists can keep the identity of informants a secret ( see p153 ) they are likely to find that their refusal to answer such questions is a ground for increasing the sum total of damages . |
| 14 | I see no ground for excluding the valuer if his acts or omissions are those of the society . |
| 15 | If a request is made to obtain evidence abroad for use in what are clearly civil proceedings , is it a sufficient ground for rejecting the request that there is a possibility that the evidence might subsequently be used in the requesting country in a criminal matter ? |
| 16 | I have some hesitation in accepting the judge 's second ground for rejecting the defendants ' argument based on section 222 . |
| 17 | Moreover , s11(2) of SGA 1979 provides that conditions may be waived , or a breach of a condition may be treated by the buyer as a breach of warranty and not as a ground for treating the contract as repudiated . |
| 18 | This is embodied in s11(2) of SGA 1979 as follows : ( 2 ) Where a contract of sale is subject to a condition to be fulfilled by the seller , the buyer may waive the condition , or may elect to treat the breach of the condition as a breach of warranty and not as a ground for treating the contract as repudiated . |
| 19 | The failure of the trial judge to put this defence before the jury in his summing up was the major ground for upsetting the conviction . |
| 20 | The Court of Appeal held that there was no ground for disturbing the award as the arbitrators and the umpire were all " experts " and it was evidently the intention of the parties that they should settle the value and not act as formal arbitrators . |
| 21 | Even on the view the judge took therefore there was no ground for depriving the defendants of their commission . |
| 22 | Data deficiencies pose least problems at the broad regional scale because the various sources provide relatively firm ground for examining the latest developments in the balance between North and South . |
| 23 | Although this has clearly been recognised as a ground of challenge for abuse of power ( see Anisminic , for example ) , it is difficult to find examples where it stands alone as the ground for attacking the decision . |
| 24 | Is the failure to follow a fair procedure a ground for challenging the decision ? |
| 25 | However , probably because of the demonstration that preceded the classroom observations , the children completely ignored the researchers and their equipment , and there were no grounds for doubting the naturalness of their behaviour . |
| 26 | It beggars belief how the fairly uncontroversial assumption of traditional price theory that agents optimize subject to constraints should be taken by these writers as sufficient grounds for supporting the inference that all markets clear . |
| 27 | An order is not to be made under the section if the company entered into the transaction in good faith and for the purpose of carrying on its business and at the time there were reasonable grounds for believing the transaction would benefit the company : subsection ( 5 ) . |
| 28 | If however , it can be said that the employee had reasonable grounds for believing the information to be part of knowledge properly acquired during his employment then his defence will succeed . |
| 29 | In Howard Marine and Dredging Co Ltd v A Ogden and Sons ( Excavations ) Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 574 , a case decided under s3 of the 1967 Act , Lord Denning considered the following factors to be relevant : the parties were of equal bargaining position , the representation made was innocent , and in any case the plaintiffs had failed to prove that they had reasonable grounds for believing the truth of the statement . |
| 30 | We are told that there are procedures — and I accept the need for them — but when the matter goes to the local council 's planning department , it is argued that there are strong grounds for allowing the application . |