Example sentences of "[be] the grounds [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he was found guilty of having intercourse with a girl of under 16 years of age , logic surely draws the conclusion that if she is unable to testify in court , she is unable to give informed consent to sexual intercourse ; in other words that the grounds on which the charge was dropped should have been the grounds on which rape was proven . |
| 2 | These are the grounds of the seventeenth-century Earl 's Palace , described as being possibly the finest example of French Renaissance architecture in Scotland . |
| 3 | What , then , are the grounds on which a large number of variations are' deemed superfluous ? |
| 4 | The prototypical reactions of dogs , in such circumstances , and their similarity to those of humans , are the grounds for our confidence in the judgements . |
| 5 | These are the grounds for our repeated assertions that the designer of the unit must ensure that it only demands an achievable extension of the repertoire of transactions of the teachers for whom it is intended . |
| 6 | But what are the grounds for these answers ? |
| 7 | Yet what are the grounds for such an assumption ? |
| 8 | What , then , are the grounds upon which local government can be said to promote democracy ? |
| 9 | What could be the grounds for this and their success ? |
| 10 | Now what , pray , were the grounds for that . |