Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that he can not object solely on the ground of the freedom of the individual or because that particular doctor usually examines for insurance companies . |
| 2 | Gila monsters and beaded lizards are generally nocturnal and hunt mainly on the ground . |
| 3 | Pivot points near the centre of the wings are said to keep the cast rings hard on the ground , regardless of undulations . |
| 4 | Living largely on the ground , it no longer needed a tail . |
| 5 | However , Oliver LJ dissented partly on the ground that the principle of effective protection might require a national court to give protection to a European right even though a similar domestic right would be denied protection . |
| 6 | The method used to spin both types was the same , a short whip of string or leather about eighteen inches in length was wound around the top which was then placed upright on the ground and steadied with one finger . |
| 7 | Guy Nicot , the Louvre ( and Elysée Palace ) architect currently supervising work on the Museum 's Cour Napoléon will leave his offices on the first floor of the west side of the Cour Lefuel ( once the apartments of Napoléon III 's Master of the Horse ) to make way for Dutch and Flemish sculptures ; German pieces will be housed underneath on the ground floor . |
| 8 | ‘ We ran out and he was just lying there on the ground . |
| 9 | High-tech weaponry has certainly kept down casualties during the air war ( it will have less ability to do so on the ground ) . |
| 10 | Supported by the Government Agent , Ridgeway refused to do so on the ground that it was commonly believed in the district that the men were guilty . |
| 11 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 12 | Plodding away on the ground with our instruments and synoptic charts , we were not really aware of the significance and desperation of the events taking place in the skies over western Europe . |
| 13 | A large white cross has been painted roughly on the ground . |
| 14 | They collapsed together on the ground . |
| 15 | It seemed quite natural for us to end up slumped together on the ground , leaning unsteadily against each other , watching the children play while the more resilient dancers still staggered and turned in the firelight . |
| 16 | Its hindquarters squatted comfortably on the ground but the rest of it , from its fifth vertebra , was missing . |
| 17 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
| 18 | The board applied for that order to be set aside on the ground that there was no jurisdiction to make it . |
| 19 | In this case the court was concerned with the question whether the transactions between the bank and the wife should be set aside on the ground of undue influence exerted over the wife by the husband . |
| 20 | The debtor obtained an order from the county court that the statutory demand and bankruptcy petition be set aside on the ground that the service of the statutory demand had contravened the provision in section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 that ‘ no action shall be brought ’ to recover any costs due to a solicitor within one month of the bill having been delivered . |
| 21 | But it is unjust that the individual 's right of access to the courts should be restricted solely on the ground that there has been delay in making the application . |
| 22 | They are made of basaltic glass , so when they come to rest , they glisten blackly on the ground . |
| 23 | So today at RAF Lyneham they made sure everything went right on the ground before they got in the air . |
| 24 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 25 | Defendants who plead not guilty to rape , generally do so on the ground that the victim consented . |
| 26 | We live only on the ground floor , of course . |
| 27 | all its friends and then it was just standing there on the ground . |
| 28 | In order to reduce costs the mirrors had never been tested together on the ground . |
| 29 | ‘ She was attacked , punched in the stomach and kicked repeatedly on the ground , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 30 | She shifted uncomfortably on the ground . |