Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] on the grounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have tree planting campaigns and regular fundraising for another building to be built on the grounds of the training centre . |
| 2 | There 's work that needs to be done , in most of the major sports grounds , but that 's proceeding and there 's , if you can imagine that there 's , in Shrewsbury for example , a lot of the work which we would want to be done on the grounds have been less than enthusiastic about doing , because they 're likely not to be there for very long . |
| 3 | This view is a direct consequence of the state-centrist approach , and has to be rejected on the grounds that it is theoretically mechanical and empirically false . |
| 4 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 5 | Their answer to the question they pose is to say that education systems are to be justified on the grounds that they develop ‘ intellectual competence that would otherwise go largely undeveloped ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) . |
| 6 | In some schools , there is a tendency for any work to be justified on the grounds that it is ‘ part of a project ’ rather than because of its educational value . |
| 7 | Subsequently , the three were to be released on the grounds that the statements of King and others had prejudiced their case . |
| 8 | 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 . |