Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [verb] on the ground " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is of the utmost importance that the Rawlsian method of argument requiring unanimity behind the veil of ignorance should not be defended on the ground that otherwise the resulting principles would not be fair because unanimity is a condition of fairness , or by any other moral argument . |
| 2 | The validity of an act done by a company can not be questioned on the ground of lack of capacity by reason that the act is beyond the company 's objects . |
| 3 | It was agreed by the parties that if the proviso on its true construction operated as a restraint of trade it could not be justified on the ground of reasonableness . |
| 4 | Such techniques provide maintenance engineers with extremely valuable data/information under actual flight conditions/loads which frequently can not be reproduced on the ground . |
| 5 | Is it not a fact that on 3 July last year the Minister of State told my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian ( Mr. Home Robertson ) that the recruitment figures for individual battalions in Scotland would not be released on the ground of security , yet when it suited the Secretary of State 's purpose , he was prepared to release figures showing 67 per cent . |