Example sentences of "on the [noun pl] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although literature is necessarily ideological , its qualities as literature have a distancing effect on the ideologies that it represents , and so allow the reader to become aware of them as ideologies . |
| 2 | The Passport Agency deserves our congratulations on the improvements that it has already achieved . |
| 3 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |
| 4 | We were pressed with Day v. McLea ( ( 1889 ) 22 Q.B.D. 610 ) , where the debtor himself sent a cheque for an amount smaller than that of the debt to the creditor on the terms that it should be in satisfaction of the debt . |
| 5 | Kate Millett and William Kunstler went about the world protesting against the trial on the grounds that it was ‘ political ’ . |
| 6 | When asked if they would like subventions from the state to aid their stipends and church buildings , a move which was being seriously considered by the British government at the time , priests and bishops were united in rejecting the idea on the grounds that it would drive a wedge between clergy and people , identifying clergy with the principal enemies of the people . |
| 7 | GEC , Ferranti 's main British rival in radar , is also keen to mount a takeover bid but would encounter fierce Ministry of Defence opposition on the grounds that it would damage competition in electronics procurement . |
| 8 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |
| 9 | Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device . |
| 10 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 13 | BSC refuses to give unions a cost comparison with the other plants on the grounds that it is ‘ commercially confidential ’ . |
| 14 | However , the navy and many MPs are likely to oppose Mr Kaifu 's plan , currently the government 's official position , when next year 's budget comes before parliament on the grounds that it is too expensive . |
| 15 | There can be no sense in the DTI 's refusal to publish the House of Fraser report on the grounds that it might prejudice a Serious Fraud Office inquiry when it took the opposite course over Blue Arrow . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The company is firmly opposed to discounting on the grounds that it undermines standards . |
| 19 | The military regime in Iraq laid claim to Kuwait on the grounds that it used to be part of the Ottoman province of Basra . |
| 20 | Some wonder why the bank stuck with Mr Parretti , even though his attempt to take over a French cinema chain in June 1990 was blocked on the grounds that it would ‘ threaten public order ’ . |
| 21 | He objected to the stress the virtuosi laid on observation and experiment , on the grounds that it was likely to lead to atheism . |
| 22 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 23 | More interesting than any of this , though , was the dog which was allowed to bark in the night , presumably on the grounds that it no longer had any bite . |
| 24 | Pro-abortion groups also oppose the protocol on the grounds that it is too restrictive . |
| 25 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 26 | It has been attacked on the grounds that it attempts to relate particular skills to different levels of management , or that it sectionalises/parochialises management thinking . |
| 27 | Temple had opposed Baldwin 's Act in 1936 — on the grounds that it permitted exemptions to the raising of the school-leaving age , planned for 1939 — and had been deeply influenced by his undergraduate friends , Tawney and Beveridge . |
| 28 | OUTRAGED AND CONCERNED PARENTS hope to ban Margaret Atwood 's novel , ‘ The Handmaid 's Tale ’ , on the grounds that it is too sexually explicit and anti-Christian to be read by high school seniors . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Stotesbury ordered gold-plated plumbing in her car on the grounds that it would ‘ save so much polishing , you know ’ . |