Example sentences of "grounds that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate Millett and William Kunstler went about the world protesting against the trial on the grounds that it was ‘ political ’ . |
| 2 | When his call was refused by Sir Derek Alun-Jones , the chairman , on the grounds that it was likely to form the basis of future litigation , Mr Mackeson-Sandbach said the trustees would be seeking ‘ legal advice on the means open to them to examine this report ’ . |
| 3 | They decided that her objections to adoption were not unreasonable and dismissed an appeal by the local authority against a county court judge 's rejection of its adoption proposal on the grounds that it was premature . |
| 4 | He objected to the stress the virtuosi laid on observation and experiment , on the grounds that it was likely to lead to atheism . |
| 5 | They claimed the cost of replacement ( £4,500 ) from the surveyor , but he denied the claim on the grounds that it was a ‘ hidden defect ’ which he could not reasonably have been expected to uncover . |
| 6 | And was not Lady Chatterley 's Lover defended on the grounds that it was a work of literary genius ? |
| 7 | On 3 September a letter was received from William Moorcroft offering his temporary services , it was not followed up , on the ostensible grounds that it was a private letter addressed to Sheldon and not to the College committee in general . |
| 8 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 9 | When I joined the battle against fluoridation in 1962 , my opposition was wholly on the grounds that it was a treatment of people 's bodies without their consent , or the consent of parents in the case of children — a form of ‘ compulsory mass medication ’ . |
| 10 | Unfortunately for the antediluvian bowl-heads , a right-thinking retailer phoned the RSPCA on the grounds that it was cruel to goldfish and so the whole idea had to be binned . |
| 11 | When the Armada came in 1588 , all supported the English cause , not least Lord Buckhurst who protested against a Privy Council enquiry into the loyalty of Sussex Catholic gentry on the grounds that it was distasteful . |
| 12 | At one extreme was the suggestion that at least 40 weeks of the training period should be spent acquiring the necessary accounting skills ; at the other , that there should be no requirement to record accounting separately on the grounds that it was adequately covered within the auditing function . |
| 13 | Ten did , but the resolution was rejected on the grounds that it was ‘ political ’ . |
| 14 | Some semblance of co-operation was finally attained only on the grounds that it was everyone 's responsibility to protect the band from the internal dissension and strife which the affair was creating . |
| 15 | The Board resolved to refuse the suggestion from the Ministry on behalf of the electors , and on the grounds that it was necessary to exercise tight control of expenditure in the public services ! |
| 16 | Mills , for example , objected to the theory of a ruling class on the grounds that it was a ‘ badly loaded phrase ’ which presupposed what should be established empirically : that an economically dominant business class also controlled political decision-making . |
| 17 | Louis VI 's reign began inauspiciously , with the refusal of some great princes to do homage , on the grounds that it was not customary . |
| 18 | At the age of ten , after failing his 11-plus , he refused his father 's offer of private school on the grounds that it was ‘ unfair and unegalitarian ’ . |
| 19 | On 6 November 1905 , 3,000 working women marched silently from Walworth and Poplar to Westminster , after Lansbury 's request that the Queen should receive a delegation of unemployed women was refused on the grounds that it was ‘ contrary to all custom and quite impossible ’ . |
| 20 | Perversely , as it must have seemed to penal reformers , the opportunities offered by borstal training , with its reformative aims , were all too often spurned by young offenders , many of whom preferred a prison sentence to borstal training on the grounds that it was usually shorter and for a more certain period . |
| 21 | Woodville had seized £10,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | My deeper antipathy to Germany and Germans I restrained for a while , on the absurd grounds that it was somehow unreasonable to abominate each of two mutually ill-disposed nations . |
| 24 | It was a sin different in kind from mischief-making and could , in Lydia 's estimation , be excused on the grounds that it was the sexual misbehaviour of another to which she was responding . |
| 25 | When he had recovered from his embarrassment , Alexei 's father had freed her — on the grounds that it was improper for a woman to be bought and sold like merchandise — and with Mei Ling 's consent had opted to marry her . |
| 26 | When the Bill went to the House of Lords this system was rejected on the grounds that it was undemocratic . |
| 27 | However , this move was over-ruled by the Secretary of State for Wales on the grounds that it was important to allow the Sixth Form College to retain its identity . |
| 28 | During and following the Gorbachev era there were numerous complaints about the tendency of presidents to arrogate more power to themselves on the grounds that it was a temporary measure to deal with the extremely serious economic and social situation facing the republics . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , but only on the grounds that it was n't their fault . |
| 30 | Governor Cecil Andrus , a conservative anti-abortion Democrat , vetoed the legislation on March 30 on the grounds that it was too restrictive . |