Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you may be able to complain to a tribunal that you have been discriminated against on the grounds of sex or race , even if the company concerned never offered you a job . |
| 2 | She claimed that she had been discriminated against on the grounds of sex contrary to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 . |
| 3 | The multiplication of agencies as a means to greater bureaucratic efficiency may be objected to on the grounds that one of the major obstacles to the successful implementation of government programmes has been found to be the existence of numerous competing administrative bodies which so many programmes seem to involve because of overlapping policy fields and jurisdictions ( Gunn 1978 ) . |
| 4 | And I think er w we 're concerned that erm the the case presented by the county has in in concentrating on migration , perhaps they have n't have n't fully expanded on on the points that they 've raised in document N Y eleven . |
| 5 | The analysis which follows in the succeeding five chapters attempts to show that they are irksome ; and indeed many are immovable without other deep-seated changes in society ; and that these can not be advocated or struggled for on the grounds of soil conservation alone . |
| 6 | Is there anything you have n't worked with on the flats yet ? |
| 7 | Matters are complicated by Compeyson , an enemy of Magwitch ( he was the convict Magwitch was fighting with on the marshes many years ago ) , he was also the lover of Miss Havisham . |
| 8 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 9 | They are accounted for on the accruals basis . |
| 10 | I mean , a lot , I can say with on the youths , I think were doing , were , were , were walking with young people at the local levels of various places in the town you know , we 've got , we have n't got as many resources as we want yet , but were still trying to do that , well I actually feel , on youth we 're doing quite a good job you know , expensive job you know , that we are , and , and all that concerns you raise , were certainly aware of . |