Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] grounds " in BNC.
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1 | The Department of Health publishes tar tables to encourage smokers who can not or will not give up smoking to switch to lower tar brands on the grounds that this may at least lower their risk of lung cancer . |
2 | The League , which had already campaigned for nationwide non-payment of taxes , on Oct. 9 caused an further uproar by calling on small savers not to buy treasury bonds on the grounds that their money would be at risk . |
3 | The doctors can recommend treatment A in preference to treatment B. They can also refuse to adopt treatment C on the grounds that it is medically contra-indicated or for some other reason is a treatment which they could not conscientiously administer . |
4 | The doctors can recommend treatment A in preference to treatment B. They can also refuse to adopt treatment C on the grounds that it is medically contra-indicated or for some other reason is a treatment which they could not conscientiously administer . |
5 | I think it is unwise , therefore , to defend arts subjects on the grounds that they are a kind of social science . |