Example sentences of "do [adv] on [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they have done so on the grounds that the company is entitled to the benefit of those exemptions as a small ( or medium ) company . |
| 2 | The Crown did not object to the Divisional Court looking at the materials ( see p. 237G–H ) but the court itself refused to do so on the grounds that it would constitute a breach of article 9 . |
| 3 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |
| 4 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 5 | Catholic nationalists who support or condone the killing of protestant loyalists do so on the grounds that members of the Northern police force and part-time army are either agents of British imperialism or maintaining alien protestant — loyalist power in a part of Ireland . |