Example sentences of "[art] grounds that it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I detest the fact that so many famous paintings have been moved in the past , against the wishes of their creators ; and that the transfer of ‘ Guernica ’ has been justified on the grounds that it belongs to the State . |
| 2 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 3 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |
| 4 | Timbmet , whose yards had earlier been the target of demonstrations by Earth First ! activists , claimed that the wood had a valid Chilean export certificate , granted on the grounds that it came from standing dead trees . |
| 5 | On hearing of these terms and before Ferdinand died , Sancho refused to accept this partition on the grounds that it went against the rights of the eldest son . |
| 6 | A deadly nerve poison , it was once used as an animal poison but is now banned on the grounds that it kills with extreme cruelty . |
| 7 | However , the government on Oct. 28 withdrew the National Bank of Pakistan from public sale , on the grounds that it acted as the treasury arm of the State Bank of Pakistan in places where the State Bank had no office . |
| 8 | This analysis is based on the works of Lenin and Mao , whose interpretation of the notion of contradiction Althusser adopts , on the grounds that it coincides with his own symptomatic reading of Marx . |
| 9 | The ANC had expressed its opposition to the Zaïre summit in a message to the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) on the grounds that it conflicted with OAU resolutions on contacts with South Africa . |
| 10 | Stone seems to think that feminist history would insist on an active campaigning role for women , and this unfortunately causes him also to dismiss the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis on the grounds that it comes with too much ‘ ideological baggage ’ ( p. 12 , n. 19 ) . |
| 11 | This view , as we shall see , has been attacked on the grounds that it rests on the false assumption that the distinction between adults and children is identical with the distinction between rational and non-rational beings . |
| 12 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 13 | On July 12 , 1990 , the European Court of Justice ordered the German government to suspend a road levy of up to DM9,000 which it had imposed since April on heavy trucks from other countries , on the grounds that it discriminated against other countries . |