Example sentences of "[prep] [art] grounds [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peacocks strut through the grounds and the whole is surrounded by an inner and outer moat . |
| 2 | The chairman then went to the extent of scrapping every committee , and having three full council meetings a week , on the grounds that every member should consider every issue . |
| 3 | This argument can be criticized on the grounds that a state bureaucracy can not be called a class . |
| 4 | White House chief of staff John Sununu objected on the grounds that a reduction in gas emissions would freeze US economic growth . |
| 5 | The Socialist Unity Party ( PSU ) and some Christian Democrats had called on voters to boycott the referendum , on the grounds that a reduction of choice for the electorate could result . |
| 6 | Occasionally someone amy tell you that refusing credit can be the basis for legal action on the grounds that a reputation has been unfairly damaged by a refusal to give credit in a business where giving credit is normal . |
| 7 | The scheme was halted last year after an alliance of environmentalists and native Americans succeeded in obtaining a judicial order on the grounds that a number of endangered species , including the purple warty back mussel , had been found about a mile from a planned drainage pipe outlet . |
| 8 | The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books . |
| 9 | Against the background of a broad spectrum of strikes organized on April 21 , April 27 and June 2 , 1989 , by the socialist General Workers ' Union ( Unión General de Trabajadores — UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( Comisiones Obreras — CCOO ) , the UGT executive decided for the first time on April 25 to give no recommendation to its members to vote for the PSOE in the European Parliament elections in June 1989 , on the grounds that a trade union could not be expected to support a government which pursued economic and social policies which were hostile to workers . |
| 10 | Petitions for English ( or Angevin , or Savoyard ) seneschals were made under Edward II , on the grounds that a Gascon might have vested interests in the politics of the duchy and would be unable to adjudicate disputes with impartiality . |
| 11 | But there can be no appeal on the grounds that a house is worth less than when it was valued . |
| 12 | But there can be no appeal on the grounds that a house is worth less than when it was valued . |
| 13 | ‘ Chadwick v. Chadwick , 22 L.J.Ch. 329 may be explained on the grounds that a trustee , like an agent , can not resist discovery in an action in relation to the property which he is alleged to hold on trust . ’ |
| 14 | Greece opposed recognition on the grounds that no country could claim the name of Macedonia ; that the republic , if independent , would only survive as the instrument of another country ; and that it would threaten northern Greece . |
| 15 | If it has proved impossible to find positive evidence in favour of Mecdi 's claim , one can , perhaps , question what appears to be Taskopruzade 's on the grounds that no source for the life of Hizir Bey records that he ever taught at the Darulhadis , and , indeed , only . |
| 16 | The lack of liability in unlawful act manslaughter for an omission which caused death has been criticised on the grounds that an omission , especially a deliberate one , is blameworthy , and it can cause death . |
| 17 | And yet in this area , too , Karajan has been subject to rebarbative questioning and criticism , not least on the grounds that an interest in technology is somehow incompatible with a man 's credibility as a performing musician . |
| 18 | the court or appeal denied the recovery on the grounds that an action could only be brought where the pain and suffering was ‘ reasonably prolonged . ’ |
| 19 | The historic decision came after Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell referred the case back to Court of Appeal on the grounds that the sentence was ‘ unduly lenient ’ . |
| 20 | that the judge erred in law in ordering that the proceedings be stayed on the grounds that the delay might be prejudicial . ’ |
| 21 | However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity . |
| 22 | However , this was a fairly necessary compromise : paragraph 2 had already conferred on the Roman catholic church a ‘ special position ’ in the state , on the grounds that the church was ‘ the guardian of the Faith professed by the great majority of its citizens ’ . |
| 23 | Gore justified his demand on the grounds that the evidence accumulated thus far , albeit fragmentary and largely circumstantial , was , nevertheless , " compelling " . |
| 24 | In that sense , if my logic is okay so far , and it is the amendment to the use classes order which has significantly shifted how we regard employment development for planning , I wondered if the justification for the forty three per hectare , on the grounds that the Secretary of State imposed it , actually holds water , these days ? |
| 25 | The Havelok text ( Bodleian MS Laud Misc 108 ) is one of those sources that has been traditionally thought to be the work of an Anglo-Norman scribe ( Sisam , 1915 ) on the grounds that the spelling is highly variable in the respects specified by Skeat and indeed in some other respects also . |
| 26 | A request by opposition parties to allow a transitional period during which the newly formed parties could prepare for elections was refused on the grounds that the election dates were specified in the Constitution . |
| 27 | But in terms of the preparation for that , in bidding for grant aid , and it was very much tied into a successful bid for grant aid , that was forthcoming but only on the grounds that the scheme was committed by the end of December . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Gabrielle was granted a decree nisi in a five-minute hearing at the Divorce Court in London , on the grounds that the couple had been apart for more than two years . |
| 30 | On Feb. 14 the National Rifle Association and other groups had filed a suit against the Californian Attorney General to overthrow the ban on assault weapons on the grounds that the law violated constitutional guarantees of privacy and the right to bear arms . |