Example sentences of "on the [noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By accurate and sensible reporting , mirrored by intelligent coverage in the press and on the radio , the public could become much better informed about mental handicap and this increased awareness could have a tremendous impact on the ways that our mentally handicapped population are perceived in modern society . |
| 2 | In a surprisingly bold move , Sir Leon is threatening court action by June against governments in ten countries ( only Germany and Belgium escape ) on the grounds that their state energy monopolies distort cross-border competition in contravention of the EC 's founding Treaty of Rome . |
| 3 | The history of the past ten years has seen Labour consistently oppose any change inside the health service and , even more regrettably , has often seen groups inside it resist reform on the grounds that their vested interests are being challenged . |
| 4 | For instance , home owners are challenging local authorities ' proposed new contracts on the grounds that their terms are unfair . |
| 5 | Last month a Federal judge in Los Angeles found in favour of four performers to whom Mr Frohnmayer had refused grants on the grounds that their acts were sexually explicit . |
| 6 | Those paying income tax were excluded on the grounds that their income was already adjusted to family size . |
| 7 | They support the FDR-FMLN on a negotiated solution , condemn the role of the United States and have opted for electoral abstention on the grounds that their children have been denied the vote and that therefore the conditions ( or free elections do not exist . |
| 8 | This varies from a reluctance to enrol bilingual students onto courses on the grounds that their English is ‘ not good enough ’ through feelings of helplessness at not being able to ‘ get through ’ to bilingual students to a wish to learn about approaches and materials that will enable these students to complete courses and pass examinations . |
| 9 | The Civil Authorities ( Special Powers ) Act 1922 enabled the security forces to search and arrest arbitrarily , to detain suspects for up to 48 hours for the sole purpose of interrogation and to break up assemblies of three or more persons on the grounds that their presence might lead to a breach of the peace . |
| 10 | The list also contains a very few phrases which apparently have no equivalents ( " soap opera " " Z cars " " facts of life " ) , but are included on the grounds that their constituent words have no relation to the meaning of the phrase . |
| 11 | Nine Iranians were on Feb. 1 ordered to leave the UK by Feb. 9 , on the grounds that their conduct was " not conducive to the public good " . |
| 12 | Although the government had suggested that anyone who applied would be permitted to make a visit , the Justice Ministry banned at least 42 dissidents from leaving South Korea on the grounds that their visit would " severely hurt national interests " . |
| 13 | On March 12 , 1990 , Stoltenberg called for an end to the stationing of battlefield nuclear weapons on West German territory on the grounds that their relevance would be lost with German unification . |
| 14 | On Sept. 6 President Bush called on the US Congress , which had reconvened on Sept. 2 , to delay for 120 days its approval of fresh loan guarantees to Israel , on the grounds that their approval would harm prospects for a peace conference . |
| 15 | The League , which had already campaigned for nationwide non-payment of taxes , on Oct. 9 caused an further uproar by calling on small savers not to buy treasury bonds on the grounds that their money would be at risk . |
| 16 | The 3,500 Zimbabwean troops guarding strategic trade routes remained in position and did not withdraw by Nov. 15 as originally envisaged , on the grounds that their departure would leave unprotected the corridors which were essential for the transport of drought relief aid to Zimbabwe , Zambia and Malawi . |
| 17 | The bishops were sent to the Tower on the grounds that their petition was seditious libel . |
| 18 | Friends of the Earth has called for a boycott of all timber products from Britain 's leading " do-it-yourself " chain stores , on the grounds that their import of tropical hardwoods is contributing to rainforest destruction . |
| 19 | It is included at this point on the grounds that its central focus is on the meanings and understandings that people use to make sense of their everyday lives . |
| 20 | The predominant conventions of the adventure story , the victory of good over evil and the happy ending , have led to a subtle demotion of the genre from the highest ranks of literature on the grounds that its main aim is a contrived entertainment ; for experience suggests , often though not invariably , that the challenge of adventure is more likely to meet with disaster and defeat than survival and triumph . |
| 21 | For two years he was a member of the Conservative party , on the grounds that its members were ‘ upholders of Anglo-Saxon tradition and supremacy ’ . |
| 22 | However , the Working Party report was turned down by the Council on the grounds that its proposals did ‘ not sufficiently reflect its value as an independent and impartial body for setting academic standards . ’ |
| 23 | This is an important shift away from the concept that a firm is competent to carry out investment business and may be authorised solely on the grounds that its partners have at some time qualified as chartered accountants . |
| 24 | Tanabe was the author of a recent policy review which was designed to steer the party away from its traditional position of pacifism ( including opposition to the country 's Self Defence Force on the grounds that its existence was unconstitutional ) and international neutrality . |
| 25 | The bridge across the Öresund was opposed by Finland , which had lodged an objection at the International Court of Justice on the grounds that its 65-metre clearance would be insufficient to allow the passage of oil drilling rigs manufactured by shipyards in the region . |
| 26 | He rejected the alternative package offered by Congress on the grounds that its tax increases for the rich would " not stimulate growth but stifle it " and were indicative of the inability of the Democrats to resist " their natural impulse to raise taxes " . |
| 27 | The national conference which since late 1991 had been planned as the next stage in the democratization process , was on May 8 postponed until later in the year on the grounds that its preparatory commission had not completed its work . |
| 28 | Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) witnessed on May 30 the total destruction of the Al-Atheer nuclear complex on the grounds that its technical core was held to have been designed for weapons development [ see pp. 38838 ; 38886 ] . |
| 29 | The Kazakh Justice Ministry had refused to register the CPK in April on the grounds that its statutes opposing the dissolution of the Soviet Union breached Kazakhstan 's Constitution . |
| 30 | With the bulk of the province 's French-speaking population opposing the agreement on the grounds that its concessions to their province were insufficient , Parizeau was optimistic of his party 's chances of winning power in Quebec 's next provincial elections — due by 1994 — and suggested that such a development would be followed by a provincial referendum on the issue of sovereignty for Quebec . |