Example sentences of "[pers pn] on [art] grounds that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if we did if we were to consider that you we 'd refuse you on the grounds that it was done without permission , you 'd have a perfect legitimate right to appeal above our heads and the Department of the Environment would rule against you could rule against us as they did with Mr Crendon |
| 2 | PCBs are so difficult to destroy , that Rechem 's emission-monitoring systems are geared to detecting them on the grounds that if you destroy PCBs you destroy everything . |
| 3 | against them on the grounds that they 're they 're crawly |
| 4 | That they 're th No , th I 'm not I 'm discriminating o against them on the grounds that they have legs that do that . |
| 5 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 6 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 7 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 8 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 9 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 10 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 11 | Unionist leaders organized a demonstration against her visit and the Lord Mayor of the city refused to meet her on the grounds that she represented a state which laid claim in its constitution to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 13 | Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin ; Tolkien rejected it on the grounds that public virtue can not be mechanised or formulated . |
| 14 | I felt slightly ashamed that my priority was breakfast , but excused it on the grounds that shock probably induced hunger . |
| 15 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
| 16 | The bill was approved by the House of Representatives — where the LDP had an overall majority — on Dec. 3 , even though the DSP voted against it on the grounds that it provided insufficient legislative control over the dispatch of troops . |
| 17 | The Presidium of the Czech National Council approved the draft on Feb. 12 , describing it as " the basic point of departure for the talks … on the final wording of the agreement " , but the Presidium of the Slovak National Council rejected it on the grounds that the Slovak delegation had made too many concessions . |
| 18 | Groups on the left opposed it on the grounds that IMF policies had damaged developing countries , and on the right it was opposed on the grounds of cost . |
| 19 | ( It may be inquired whether , if the wife knew of the VD , the law permitted the husband to infect her with it on the grounds that she consented to his occasioning actual bodily harm to her . |
| 20 | Sandys ' personal commitment involved disagreement with his senior civil servants who advised against it on the grounds that it would arouse opposition from the urban local authorities and private developers who would be forced to seek sites beyond the green belt . |
| 21 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |
| 22 | An early restart had been planned , but the Inspectorate ruled against it on the grounds that there was still a risk that welds in the pressure vessels could fail as they cool , becoming brittle and eventually breaking , with the risk of a serious accident due to loss of coolant . |
| 23 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |