Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] [art] grounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
| 2 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 3 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 4 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 5 | Malan ignored calls in Parliament for his resignation from both the Democratic Party ( DP ) and the CP — the latter on the grounds that right-wing organizations had been blamed for what had in reality been the activities of the CCB . |
| 6 | For the present , however , the system excludes vehicles , pharmaceuticals and basic foodstuffs , the latter on the grounds that these are already covered by a range of controls . |
| 7 | I will not attempt to summarise the close reasoning of that part of the judgment under appeal which explains the reasons why , but for the authority of Reg. v. Director of Serious Fraud Office , Ex parte Saunders , 138 N.L.J. 243 , the Divisional Court would , in company with Mr. Russell Q.C. , have preferred the first of the grounds of relief , but I believe that the following quotations [ 1992 ] 1 All E.R. |
| 8 | In the light of the judgment in that case we would uphold the applicant 's objection to the proposed interview on the third rather than the first of the grounds put before us . |
| 9 | In the absence of any data on assimilation the DES ( 1984b ) fitted two models — No Assimilation and Full Assimilation — and prefer the former on the grounds that for males it appeared to fit the experience of the past ten years rather better . |
| 10 | The only basic concession we made to the Chancellor was to exclude the self-employed on the grounds that they were not covered by SERPS in any event . |
| 11 | Usually we seek to maintain the bridge from the old to the new on the grounds that this gives security . |