Example sentences of "be no ground for " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 Investigations into the affairs of senior officials of the Luchaire company had been initiated on March 13 , 1986 , by the Defence Ministry , but on June 16 , 1989 , the examining magistrate , Michel Legrand , found that there were no grounds for prosecution .
33 There was no real Academic plan and there were no grounds for confidence that the resource levels necessary to support the standards of the courses leading to the Council 's awards would be maintained .
34 There were no grounds for assuming that the capitalist state would work in such a way as to meet the needs of the system .
35 Chief Inspector John Henry , Merseyside 's crime prevention chief , said the figures were good but there were no grounds for complacency .
36 … With regard to the charges register , there is no ground for interfering with it and directing any rectification .
37 The statistics for ’ dangerous occurrences ’ show that they have been increasing during the past few years — so there is no ground for complacency .
38 Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life .
39 By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties .
40 Even on the view the judge took therefore there was no ground for depriving the defendants of their commission .
41 The arbitrators found that there was no ground for such an inference .
42 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 .
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