Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on [adj] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 2 | The need for improved facilities for Arts and Social Studies , as an aid to the recruitment and retention of academic staff and to assist in the improvement of research activity , has caused the University to launch a review or three sites ( namely the area around the St Cross Building , the central site surrounding the Bodleian Library , and the Taylorian/Ashmolean site ) to see what scope there is for the rationalisation of existing uses and what changes can be made to make better use of them , with a view to defining a comprehensive and coherent scheme for the development of each site which has most to commend it on academic grounds . |
| 3 | Yeah the l that 's the laughable thing as well , he tries to criticize it on ideological grounds |
| 4 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 5 | Of course many committees are composed of old chums , but a way of making meetings less forbidding to those outside the circle is to hold them on neutral ground outside members homes . |
| 6 | Hence the fact that his fellow economists , who regarded it as mistaken , were at great pains to refute it on theoretical grounds . |
| 7 | Mr Lamont , when pressed on this last night at a meeting of the Conservative back-bench 1922 committee , justified it on environmental grounds , saying that the election pledge had been overtaken by a commitment at the Rio conference in June to cut Britain 's fuel consumption . |
| 8 | This may lead those who would otherwise oppose the practice to defend it on cultural grounds . |