Example sentences of "there were no grounds for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where leave was given , it was not uncommon to find on investigation that there were no grounds for granting any relief . |
| 2 | And he said there were no grounds for overturning Sir Bryan 's ‘ sensible ’ decision until the fund was increased . |
| 3 | There were no grounds for redrawing borders ; ‘ The Germans of Switzerland and Alsace do not desire to be reunited to Germany any more than the French in Belgium and Switzerland wish to become attached politically to France ’ . |
| 4 | The statutory demand would therefore be set aside as there were no grounds for the demand under s 268(1) ( a ) , Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 5 | The then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Lord Young , decided that there were no grounds for referring the bid to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ; nor were there any grounds for referring the Suchard holding in Rowntree , which had , by that time , been increased to 29.9 per cent . |
| 6 | However , probably because of the demonstration that preceded the classroom observations , the children completely ignored the researchers and their equipment , and there were no grounds for doubting the naturalness of their behaviour . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal held that the letter to Mr. Choudhury unambiguously showed that the appeal committee had correctly adopted the Croydon approach and there were no grounds for impugning the decision . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the application , that the provision in article 5(1) of the 1968 Convention conferring special jurisdiction in respect of ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ required the existence of either a contractual relationship between the parties giving rise to actual contractual obligations , or a consensual relationship closely akin to a contract and with comparable obligations ; and that , since the transactions between the plaintiffs and defendants had been void ab initio , no contracts existed within the meaning of article 5(1) ; that the jurisdiction under article 5(3) was restricted to claims based on tort , delict or quasi-delict and did not extend to claims for restitution ; that article 6(1) was not applicable since under the terms of the order of Steyn J. the restitution claims would not be heard and determined together and , in any event , any irreconcilable judgments would be subject to a final decision of the House of Lords , binding in both England and Scotland ; and that , accordingly , there were no grounds for invoking the special jurisdiction to allow the defendants to be sued in England ( post , pp. 836F , 837B–D , 838E , 840B–D , 842H — 843B , G , G–H ) . |
| 9 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the liability imposed under section 1(1) of the Act of 1978 was intended by Parliament , by virtue of section 6(1) of the Act , to enable claims for contribution to be made as between parties who had no claim for contribution under the general law , and applied whenever a plaintiff had a cause of action against a third party in respect of the same damage as gave rise to his cause of action against the defendant , irrespective of the legal basis of the liability ; and that , accordingly , the defence of ex turpi causa non oritur actio could not be relied upon in answer to a claim for contribution under the Act ; and that , since there was sufficient possibility of the third party being found liable for some part of the plaintiffs ' loss , there were no grounds for striking out the third party notice ( post , pp. 1022H — 1023A , G–H , 1024G — 1025D ) . |
| 10 | My constituent , Mrs. X , who is still suffering badly , had been treated in a less than fair way by those who conducted the criminal investigation and also by those who decided that there were no grounds for bringing the perpetrator in front of a court martial . |
| 11 | Investigations into the affairs of senior officials of the Luchaire company had been initiated on March 13 , 1986 , by the Defence Ministry , but on June 16 , 1989 , the examining magistrate , Michel Legrand , found that there were no grounds for prosecution . |
| 12 | There was no real Academic plan and there were no grounds for confidence that the resource levels necessary to support the standards of the courses leading to the Council 's awards would be maintained . |
| 13 | There were no grounds for assuming that the capitalist state would work in such a way as to meet the needs of the system . |
| 14 | Chief Inspector John Henry , Merseyside 's crime prevention chief , said the figures were good but there were no grounds for complacency . |