Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | While copyright cases have been won on the grounds that manuals , and other documents that go with software , have been copied , no one has yet been able to claim copyright on the syntax of a computer language . |
| 2 | It has been attacked on the grounds that it attempts to relate particular skills to different levels of management , or that it sectionalises/parochialises management thinking . |
| 3 | This view , as we shall see , has been attacked on the grounds that it rests on the false assumption that the distinction between adults and children is identical with the distinction between rational and non-rational beings . |
| 4 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 5 | Let me repeat , in Darcy 's Utopia Church and State will be firmly separated : religious broadcasting will be forbidden on the grounds that it is divisive , racist , sexist , and an incitement to violence as belief structure clashes with belief structure — Christian at the hands of the Jew , Hindu the Muslim , Protestant the Catholic , Sikh of Buddhist , Capitalist of Communist , and of course vice versa — and no doubt the Moonies and the EST-ites will soon be kneecapping one another with a clear conscience . |
| 6 | The list also contains a very few phrases which apparently have no equivalents ( " soap opera " " Z cars " " facts of life " ) , but are included on the grounds that their constituent words have no relation to the meaning of the phrase . |
| 7 | The planning directors of eight companies were contacted , of whom one declined to be interviewed on the grounds that his company did not use environmental scanning . |
| 8 | It was a sin different in kind from mischief-making and could , in Lydia 's estimation , be excused on the grounds that it was the sexual misbehaviour of another to which she was responding . |
| 9 | When , in April 1916 , the assistant matron , Miss Loader , and the children 's attendant , Miss Thomas , resigned on the grounds that they were unable to work with the matron , and when Mrs. Adams , the labour mistress , also appeared before the committee with a similar complaint , it was evident that all was not well . |
| 10 | Wilson disclosed the split into equally balanced factions when he said that two further members had also resigned on the grounds that a weakened Commission could no longer usefully continue . |
| 11 | Or perhaps authority may come from some prestigious so the domain of the practitioner , as when techniques are recommended on the grounds that they have the warrant of proven theory . |
| 12 | More emphasis on domestic subjects in the curriculum of secondary school girls was now recommended on the grounds that ‘ every girl should be looked upon as a potential wife and mother ’ , just as the Board of Education promoted the teaching of housewifery , laundry and cookery to working class girls . |
| 13 | Local and national sports bodies have also objected on the grounds that the scheme would take away open space that could be used as a public sports field for a town which the National Playing Fields Association says has a shortage of open space . |
| 14 | Simmel 's work has been selected on the grounds that I consider it to be the most convincing analysis of modernity consistent with the concept of objectification as outlined here . |
| 15 | The magistrate could then decide the case on the spot , though postponements were often granted on the grounds that witnesses were missing . |
| 16 | Timbmet , whose yards had earlier been the target of demonstrations by Earth First ! activists , claimed that the wood had a valid Chilean export certificate , granted on the grounds that it came from standing dead trees . |
| 17 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 18 | A trust is imposed on the heirs that they should manumit four slaves when the testator 's children reach puberty . |
| 19 | The ban was imposed on the grounds that dolphins were being killed by the tuna fleet . |
| 20 | The issue had been brought into focus last September , when GATT condemned a US ban on the import from Mexico of drift-netted tuna , imposed on the grounds that it was leading to the deaths of dolphins and other marine mammals . |
| 21 | The preliminary judging will be made on the photographs that we receive so make sure you send us two good , clear shots of your lovely locks . |
| 22 | Another line of argument put forward by traditional liberals is that an appeal to the better off can be made on the grounds that the existence of the underclass tends to make our society a less civilized one in which to live . |
| 23 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The ruling was made on the grounds that he had a " well-founded fear of persecution in Germany " where monitoring groups had reported an increase in racist attacks [ see also p. 38782 ] . |
| 26 | This hypothetical test was preferred on the grounds that it gave rise to less uncertainty , and avoided the possibility of the court acting on the basis of hindsight . |
| 27 | In the Operations Room , some of the female part-time watchkeepers were just coming on duty and were being briefed on the operations that were planned for the day and those that were already taking place . |
| 28 | Czechoslovakia is going ahead with a $50 million programme to improve the safety of its controversial V-1 unit at Jaslovske Bohunice plant , despite Austrian requests that it be closed on the grounds that its proximity to the border posed a threat to Austrian citizens . |
| 29 | Officially , the ban was requested on the grounds that holding demonstrations on a working day would imperil public order and might disrupt the normal work of enterprises and public transport . |
| 30 | By then , Iran-contra was no longer a good movie , even if the livelier parts had been preserved on the videotapes that were hastily rushed out . |