Example sentences of "in [num] on [art] grounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing that really happened was that my mum got a divorce in 1972 on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted me and there was mental cruelty to her . |
| 2 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |
| 3 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 4 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 5 | In Zimbabwe 's case , England openly opposed their long-awaited elevation to Test status in 1992 on the grounds it would devalue the international game . |
| 6 | During 1866 Tokugawa ( Hitotsubashi ) Keiki , whose claims to the office of shogun had been rejected in 1858 on the grounds of precedent , succeeded to the headship of the Tokugawa family and subsequently to the title of shogun . |
| 7 | As early as 1845 he surveyed a line for a railway crossing the Grampian mountains between Perth and Inverness , but the Bill presented to Parliament , requesting permission , was defeated in 1846 on the grounds of impracticality . |
| 8 | Pope Paul IV , for instance , was so shocked by what he saw that he ordered the work to be obliterated in 1555 on the grounds of obscenity . |
| 9 | A proposal to build more barracks was rejected by Parliament in 1739 on the grounds that ‘ the people of this kingdom have been taught to associate the idea of barracks and slavery ’ . |