Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] on the grounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge cuts in EPA 's research Funds ( down by nearly 50 per cent since Reagan took office ) can perhaps be justified on the grounds that , in hard times , scientific priorities can be temporarily reshuffled with little or no long-term damage . |
| 2 | To count such comments as these as indicative of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with housework may perhaps be criticized on the grounds that what these women are talking about is not the housework situation , but marriage . |
| 3 | It can not be explained on the grounds that ordinary life is just as tragic ( art is not merely imitation of life ) or by reference to moral feelings or pity and fear . |
| 4 | What stopped me in my tracks was a sentence reading , ‘ The dung beetle program really can not be justified on the grounds that it is cheaper than a horse ’ . |
| 5 | However , the naturalistic account should not be rejected on the grounds that it is inadequate , as though it could be polished up a bit and made more acceptable : rather , it should be dismissed because it presents an entirely distorted picture of social reality . |
| 6 | In an adult population it can not be excluded on the grounds of age alone . |
| 7 | After a certain period a job can not be refused on the grounds of low pay or travelling distance from home . |
| 8 | This general policy could always be justified on the grounds of efficiency and cost-effectiveness , enabling parental choice to be denied under section 6(3) ( a ) ( compliance would prejudice ‘ efficient education or … efficient use of resources ’ ) . |
| 9 | It may be that the ban will in due course be struck down , or at least restricted in its scope by the European Court : a total prohibition on television and radio appearances by representatives of a lawful political organisation , for example where they are elected local councillors speaking about domestic issues , can hardly be justified on the grounds of national security or the prevention of public disorder . |
| 10 | But clearly there is a point beyond which restrictions can not reasonably be imposed on the grounds of good neighbourliness without payment of compensation — and ‘ general considerations of regional or national policy require so great a restriction on the landowner 's use of his land as to amount to a taking away from him of a proprietary interest in the land ’ . |
| 11 | However , there were even more terrible signs of this supposedly new streak of violent irritability to be found among the youth of working-class neighbourhoods , which could not even be justified on the grounds of over-enthusiastic jingo patriotism . |
| 12 | Batty certainly ca n't be excused on the grounds the manager did n't give him a ‘ fair crack of the whip ’ can he ? |