Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] on the ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office stressed that Britain was continuing to focus its ‘ substantial ’ efforts to fly aid into the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and to escort convoys on the ground . |
| 2 | This took place against a backdrop of reports of executions of detainees , mass expulsions through force and intimidation , and other human rights violations , as armed groups attempted to establish facts on the ground which might become the basis for any future international negotiations over territory . |
| 3 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 4 | That was the war : not when the band played and a bloody politician stepped forward to put flowers on the ground . |
| 5 | This judgment will , we hope , result in a significant reduction in the number of applications to stay proceedings on the ground of delay . |
| 6 | This judgment will , we hope , result in a significant reduction in the number of applications to stay proceedings on the ground of delay . |
| 7 | Elsewhere also there was an increasing tendency to demarcate frontiers on the ground more clearly than ever before , as when at the end of the Thirty Years War that in Pomerania between Swedish and Brandenburg territory was marked out with boundary-stones . |
| 8 | He said Russian planes were not carrying ‘ air-to-surface ’ missiles or bombs , which could allow them to attack targets on the ground . |