Example sentences of "the grounds that [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the EC remains highly sensitive to the origins of garments made up within African countries when the woven fabric is imported from elsewhere , and may reject such imports on the grounds that they are not wholly manufactured within the exporting country . |
| 2 | Where convertible debt , non-equity interests in shareholders ' funds or non-equity interests in minority interests , are disclosed in the notes to the financial statements rather than on the face of the balance sheet ( as required by paragraphs 22 , 34 or 44 ) on the grounds that they are not material , the relevant caption on the face of the balance sheet should state that convertible debt or non-equity interests ( as the case may be ) are included . |
| 3 | Other comparisons of the two systems , by Reynolds and Sullivan ( 1987 ) , Sutherland and Gallagher ( 1987 ) , and by Steedman ( 1983 ) , are inconclusive on the grounds that they are not comparing like with like but the outcomes of a well established and resourced system with one still grappling with its identity and purpose . |
| 4 | Many , perhaps most City employment agencies , rate employees of Harvard and of other licensed dealers cheaply , on the grounds that they are not sought after by many recruitment managers of Stock Exchange member firms . |
| 5 | This last judgement ( although it is commonly made ) is speculative , of course , as the scribe is normally anonymous , but it is analogous to rejecting live speakers from a random sample on the grounds that they do not speak as we think they ought to speak , or rejecting attested spoken forms on the grounds that they are not what we would expect in some particular location . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 8 | In an action brought by the plaintiff against E. Lacon & Co. under the OLA 1957 , E. Lacon & Co. denied liability on the grounds that they were not occupiers of the private part of the premises . |
| 9 | These demands , reportedly based on views expressed in local Basic People 's Congresses , were criticized by Kadhafi in his congressional address on March 6 , on the grounds that they were not representative of true public opinion . |
| 10 | In the past , fresh fish used as bait has been standard-rated , on the grounds that it is not intended for human consumption . |
| 11 | We might argue for a logical ordering between Levels 1 and 2 on the grounds that it is not possible to measure differences between people if you do not realise that they vary . |
| 12 | However , Beacham and Jones ( 1971 ) came close to taking this line on the grounds that it is not possible to perform the cost-benefit exercise well enough to obtain a soundly based conclusion . |
| 13 | Louis VI 's reign began inauspiciously , with the refusal of some great princes to do homage , on the grounds that it was not customary . |
| 14 | Alternatively , could the third party later retract the acceptance on the grounds that it was not written , and therefore could not have been relied upon by the parties to the Vienna Convention ? |
| 15 | The unexpected rejection came about because the former communist Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) and the right-wing Confederation for an Independent Poland ( KPN ) opposed the programme on the grounds that it was too rigorous , while the Democratic Union ( UD ) and the Liberal Democratic Congress ( KLD ) opposed the programme on the grounds that it was not tough enough . |
| 16 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 17 | His solicitor quickly gave notice of an appeal on the grounds that he is not mentally ill , a process that could take months to complete . |
| 18 | The dismissals followed calls from many quarters for Sacher to resign on the grounds that he was not doing enough to dismantle the StB structure ( although officially the organization had been abolished on Feb. 1 — see p. 37255 ) . |
| 19 | It was already 11 p.m. and ; at first Pétain demurred on the grounds that he was not yet au fait with the situation . |
| 20 | Laura , however , declined on the grounds that she was not nearly important enough to share the limelight with such august people . |
| 21 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | As a result Finance Ministers agreed in Luxembourg on Oct. 9 to prolong the existing system " for a limited period " , on the grounds that there was not enough time before January 1993 to introduce another , more effective one . |