Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] on [art] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | When pitching in strong winds place the tent on the ground with the entrance you 'll be using pointing away from the wind . |
| 2 | The LTE objected to the direction on the ground that it failed to have regard to the LTE 's financial duty under section 7(3) to break even so far as is practicable . |
| 3 | Erm , in fact further down there you 've got the leet on the ground going down to where the waterwheel is . |
| 4 | Special considerations : the Attorney General invited the Court to review the sentence on the ground that it was unduly lenient . |
| 5 | Special considerations : the Attorney General applied for a review of the sentence on the ground that it was unduly lenient . |
| 6 | Special considerations : the Attorney-General asked the court to review the sentence on the ground that it was unduly lenient . |
| 7 | Special considerations : the Attorney-General asked the court to review the sentence on the ground that it was unduly lenient . |
| 8 | Special considerations : the Attorney-General asked the Court to review the sentence on the ground that it was unduly lenient . |
| 9 | After the revolution the plaintiff succeeded in recovering the money on the ground of indebitatus assumpsit . |
| 10 | He did n't care about the blanket on the ground . |
| 11 | CORONER 'S REPORT , SECTION 224 : Lepine was seen on the campus at least ten times before December 6 : in September at the student co-op , then three times the next month in the Polytechnic building , in November at the administrative building , and four times in the first week of December , and the last time in the cafeteria on the ground floor . |
| 12 | The Court of Justice held that the word ‘ obligation ’ in article 5(1) refers to the contractual obligation forming the basis of the legal proceedings ; and that , in a case such as de Bloos , where the plaintiff asserts the right to be paid damages and seeks dissolution of the contract on the ground of the wrongful conduct of the other party , the obligation referred to in article 5(1) is still that which arises under the contract , the non-performance of which is relied upon to support such claims . |
| 13 | A may not terminate the contract on the ground that B has committed a breach by not opening a confirmed credit — but he may insist that B opens a confirmed credit within a reasonable time and , if B does not do so , he will then be in breach of contract . |
| 14 | The solicitor acting for the College sought a review of the decision on the ground that no argument on the Rybak decision had been heard before the IT . |
| 15 | On their way up to their office in the attic , therefore , Ian and Theodora had to pass the open doors of the offices of the Dean and the Archdeacon on the ground floor , and that of Canon Wheeler on the first . |
| 16 | At the beginning I was simply a labourer , which entailed doing all the preparation on the ground and ensuring that Eric on the roof was always supplied with materials to work with . |
| 17 | Fitzormonde placed the goblet on the ground before him . |
| 18 | The horror on the ground was watched by mother-of-four Gezda Mostaard , 42 . |
| 19 | He stopped what he was doing and , placing the bucket on the ground , he turned to face me , holding out his right hand . |
| 20 | In our judgment the plaintiffs are entitled , if so advised , to object to the remuneration on the ground that it is , to use the judge 's words , ‘ plainly excessive ’ or , as we think is the same criterion , unreasonably high . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland , upholding the trial judge 's decision , ordered that TBL be joined as defendant and dismissed the action on the ground that clause 3 of the agreement constituted an attempt to fetter TBL 's statutory power to increase its capital and was therefore invalid . |
| 22 | In this way , the original small nucleus of people grows by adding people to it in stages , much as a snowball can be built up by rolling it along the snow on the ground ( e.g. Plant 1975 ; Mars 1982 ) . |
| 23 | Tess 's face went as white as the snow on the ground . |
| 24 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 25 | It was as he was about to emerge from the far end of the wood that the figure on the ground brought him to a standstill . |
| 26 | THE fighting on the ground may be nothing compared with the fighting over who pays the bill . |
| 27 | By now , Avon and Somerset police were pursuing the car on the ground . |
| 28 | He submitted that , if a national court is considering whether to grant an interlocutory injunction in a case such as the present , where the validity of the law sought to be enforced is challenged by the defendant on the ground that it is inconsistent with Community law , the question whether the court should require an undertaking in damages from the plaintiff as a condition of the grant of an injunction is to be decided on the principles applicable to that question under the national law , being a question of procedure which , on established principles of Community law , is left to the national law . |
| 29 | The principal effect of a change in flexibility , namely a change in effective loft at impact , could be tested simply , in a way which related to the practice , already common among golfers , of resting the toe of the club on the ground and then pushing the butt firmly downwards . |
| 30 | What he had taken to be a gate turned out to be a wall , the hump on the ground near by a heap of gravel and the massive bulk on the other side of the road a barn whose gable end still bore the faded icon of a helmeted Mussolini and the slogan ‘ It is important to win , but still more important to fight . ’ |