Example sentences of "were [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the education field , cuts were justified on the grounds that falling numbers of school-age children could lead to reductions in spending without reductions in standards . |
| 2 | Pharmacy was chosen for review because university cuts in the subject , announced by the UGC in 1981 , were made on the grounds that courses were available in the public sector , and because the UGC has recently established a panel on subjects allied in medicine , including pharmacy , with which NAB 's working group can consult and co-ordinate some measure of trans-binary planning . |
| 3 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 4 | I was n't watched closely ; I had opted out of the ( sexual ) competition with my sisters ; and some of my eccentricities were tolerated on the grounds that my presence in the house was only temporary and , in the long run , of little relevance to its essential life . |
| 5 | These moves were condemned on the grounds that backward conditions in hospital were being exchanged for backward conditions in the community . |
| 6 | Their applications were refused on the grounds that they did not meet the admission criteria . |
| 7 | But they were rebuffed on the grounds that the society was not concerned with clinical research . |
| 8 | Hundreds of people were arrested on the grounds that they were suspected of rebel activity . |
| 9 | However this study , and the many others which followed it , were criticised on the grounds that subjects ' reporting of the position of a click might not be a perceptual effect , but the result of memory or response bias . |
| 10 | Those paying income tax were excluded on the grounds that their income was already adjusted to family size . |
| 11 | Some of the practices of the colonial state were re-introduced , including corporal punishment , and some of those elected to village councils were rejected on the grounds that they had held positions under the previous regime . |
| 12 | The farmers affected broke up the new flood-banks , and after being arrested initially , were released on the grounds that the enclosure commissioners had exceeded their powers in constructing the drainage works . |
| 13 | Former Social Security Secretary Patrick Jenkin alluded to this when he cut the benefit to which homeless men were entitled on the grounds that people would be aggrieved by these itinerants getting " more actual cash in hand by being homeless ( sometimes by choice ) than by contributing toward the cost of a household and accepting the attendant responsibilities . |
| 14 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 15 | Many liturgical festivities were banished from the churchyard as pagan or blasphemous , and most of the mystery plays were suppressed on the grounds that they wrongly mixed ‘ scurrilitie with divinity ’ . |