Example sentences of "[to-vb] it on [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 3 | Under such unfavourable circumstances it was clearly not possible to pursue the Youth Allyah dream of creating a genuine community and to run it on democratic lines like a Kibbutz . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yeah the l that 's the laughable thing as well , he tries to criticize it on ideological grounds |
| 6 | Hence the fact that his fellow economists , who regarded it as mistaken , were at great pains to refute it on theoretical grounds . |
| 7 | The contract consisted of the dealer promising that the car was a ‘ good little bus ’ in return of the customer applying to the finance company to acquire it on hire-purchase terms . |
| 8 | If it accepts , it thereby agrees to purchase the item for cash from the trader and at the same time agrees to transfer it on hire-purchase terms to the customer . |
| 9 | The specifically indeterminate forms that inhabit the underside of misericords — birds with human heads , dragons with foliage tails — give way to bats , cats , men — on horseback or performing somersaults under the ledge to balance it on various parts of their anatomy . |
| 10 | Yeah , yes , but there there 's got ta come a time when they have to test it on human beings . |
| 11 | This may lead those who would otherwise oppose the practice to defend it on cultural grounds . |
| 12 | If an illness has multiple causes it makes sense to attack it on several fronts at once . |
| 13 | They enjoy water and do not hesitate to enter it on warm days . |