Example sentences of "ground for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was fertile ground for inculcating the view of politics as technique . |
| 2 | But Equity treated such pressure as a ground for holding the transaction voidable . |
| 3 | The delivery of a request for further and better particulars is not a condition precedent to the making of an order for them , but the failure to make a prior request is a ground for refusing the order : Ord 6 , r 7 . |
| 4 | This leads to the applicant 's second ground for supporting the judgment under appeal , namely that whatever the words of the Act may mean , they must be understood as qualified by a tacit exception , preserving the ancient right of silence in its particular manifestation of the immunity from being asked questions after charge , previously embodied in the Judges ' Rules and carried forward into paragraph 16.5 of Code C. |
| 5 | This Protocol has been cited as one ground for asserting the illegality of nuclear weapons , even in the absence of any specific written agreement about the latter . |
| 6 | Even if the Charter should contain restrictions on its freedom of action , acts transgressing such restrictions are probably not void , though they may be a ground for revoking the Charter . |
| 7 | described two distinct states of affair , namely , ( a ) where the wife is alive to what she is signing and is procured to sign by the undue influence of her husband ; and ( b ) where the wife is not aware of what she is signing and the only ground for impeaching the document is her want of understanding . |
| 8 | But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 9 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 10 | In those defamation cases where journalists can keep the identity of informants a secret ( see p153 ) they are likely to find that their refusal to answer such questions is a ground for increasing the sum total of damages . |
| 11 | I see no ground for excluding the valuer if his acts or omissions are those of the society . |
| 12 | If a request is made to obtain evidence abroad for use in what are clearly civil proceedings , is it a sufficient ground for rejecting the request that there is a possibility that the evidence might subsequently be used in the requesting country in a criminal matter ? |
| 13 | Moreover , s11(2) of SGA 1979 provides that conditions may be waived , or a breach of a condition may be treated by the buyer as a breach of warranty and not as a ground for treating the contract as repudiated . |
| 14 | This is embodied in s11(2) of SGA 1979 as follows : ( 2 ) Where a contract of sale is subject to a condition to be fulfilled by the seller , the buyer may waive the condition , or may elect to treat the breach of the condition as a breach of warranty and not as a ground for treating the contract as repudiated . |
| 15 | The failure of the trial judge to put this defence before the jury in his summing up was the major ground for upsetting the conviction . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal held that there was no ground for disturbing the award as the arbitrators and the umpire were all " experts " and it was evidently the intention of the parties that they should settle the value and not act as formal arbitrators . |
| 17 | Although this has clearly been recognised as a ground of challenge for abuse of power ( see Anisminic , for example ) , it is difficult to find examples where it stands alone as the ground for attacking the decision . |
| 18 | Is the failure to follow a fair procedure a ground for challenging the decision ? |
| 19 | However , probably because of the demonstration that preceded the classroom observations , the children completely ignored the researchers and their equipment , and there were no grounds for doubting the naturalness of their behaviour . |
| 20 | It beggars belief how the fairly uncontroversial assumption of traditional price theory that agents optimize subject to constraints should be taken by these writers as sufficient grounds for supporting the inference that all markets clear . |
| 21 | An order is not to be made under the section if the company entered into the transaction in good faith and for the purpose of carrying on its business and at the time there were reasonable grounds for believing the transaction would benefit the company : subsection ( 5 ) . |
| 22 | If however , it can be said that the employee had reasonable grounds for believing the information to be part of knowledge properly acquired during his employment then his defence will succeed . |
| 23 | In Howard Marine and Dredging Co Ltd v A Ogden and Sons ( Excavations ) Ltd [ 1978 ] QB 574 , a case decided under s3 of the 1967 Act , Lord Denning considered the following factors to be relevant : the parties were of equal bargaining position , the representation made was innocent , and in any case the plaintiffs had failed to prove that they had reasonable grounds for believing the truth of the statement . |
| 24 | We are told that there are procedures — and I accept the need for them — but when the matter goes to the local council 's planning department , it is argued that there are strong grounds for allowing the application . |
| 25 | My constituent , Mrs. X , who is still suffering badly , had been treated in a less than fair way by those who conducted the criminal investigation and also by those who decided that there were no grounds for bringing the perpetrator in front of a court martial . |
| 26 | The then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Lord Young , decided that there were no grounds for referring the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ; nor were there any grounds for referring the Suchard holding in Rowntree , which had , by that time , been increased to 29.9 per cent . |
| 27 | If limitation appears to be an issue , appropriate questions must be asked concerning date of knowledge , plaintiffs under a disability and grounds for exercising the discretion under Limitation Act 1980 , s 33 . |
| 28 | If Mr. Tully has good grounds for exercising the privilege against self-incrimination , then his refusal to comply with the orders for disclosure and discovery made by Buckley J. may have the effect of assisting Mr. Tully to escape prosecution and punishment for a crime and also the effect of assisting Mr. Tully and others to keep money which belongs to Abbey . |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal held that the letter to Mr. Choudhury unambiguously showed that the appeal committee had correctly adopted the Croydon approach and there were no grounds for impugning the decision . |
| 30 | Mr Geoffrey Robertson , QC , appearing for the film 's director and producer , Nigel Wingrove and John Stephenson , argued that the board 's grounds for banning the video rested upon very insecure foundations . |