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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Usually we seek to maintain the bridge from the old to the new on the grounds that this gives security . |