Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] grounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should it not , if there are grounds for thinking that it matters to the fiction ? |
| 2 | Mr Patten , speaking at question time in the Commons , told Mr Anthony Beaumont-Dark ( C. Selly Oak ) that there was nothing to prevent the current investigation into the West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad looking into ‘ any other matter … if there are grounds for suspicion ’ . |
| 3 | If there is regret over the failure of Resolution 242 as a blueprint for peace , which had seemed so promising in 1967 , there are grounds for even greater regret that the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention has not been vigorously upheld by those who claimed to be seeking a basis for peace . |
| 4 | There are grounds therefore for believing that superpower activity in the Middle East may now be in a phase of decline . |
| 5 | Partly for historical reasons , such as the impact the Poor Law made on their memories , and partly as a result of their attitudes towards financial ‘ dependence ’ on the state , there are grounds for believing that some of these factors are more acutely felt by older people than other age groups . |
| 6 | But there are grounds for scepticism : there has not been produced a clear coherent overall plan which places significant values , skills and , characteristics at the forefront of the curriculum . |
| 7 | At the present time , there are grounds for similar concern about both the public and the private sector . |
| 8 | For the most part we are concerned with language achievement in English , but there are grounds for concern about numeracy ( Wood , Wood and Howarth , 1983 ) , about employment prospects ( Montgomery and Miller , 1977 ) , and about behaviour and emotional development ( Denmark , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Now there are grounds for this disquiet despite its being misplaced . |
| 10 | The weaker claim is that although one can not be certain that beneficial results will accrue , there are grounds for the probability that they will . |
| 11 | Under these circumstances , there are grounds to doubt the value of comparing the visual capacities , and underlying visual mechanisms , of the Mt with those in rhesus monkeys and other primates , such as ourselves . |
| 12 | . If it transpires that there are grounds we shall appreciate your advice as to what redress Mr Blank would have , if any … ’ |
| 13 | But there are grounds for arguing that in the UK case a considerably better productivity record would have resulted in a smaller absolute fall . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , there are grounds for asking whether the measurable distribution of wealth-holding is simply a matter of choice within Britain in comparison with other leading economies , or whether the financial services sector forms the agency which actively determines that distribution rather than simply facilitating it . |
| 15 | On the evidence to date , however , there are grounds for judging unions in relation to management as slightly the lesser sinners . |
| 16 | Despite these cognitive and linguistic demands , there are grounds for predicting that young children will be able to handle intentional explanations . |
| 17 | Well obviously Miss the magistrates will need to be satisfied there are grounds why they should bind him over they will also need to be satisfied that there is a fear for the future otherwise they will not bind him over . |
| 18 | Well obviously Miss the magistrates will need to be satisfied there are grounds why they should bind him over . |
| 19 | There are grounds for arguing that learning hierarchies like this which are both progressive and universal are extremely difficult to find . |
| 20 | Some examples will demonstrate that there are grounds to question the composition of the scales . |
| 21 | Clearly there are grounds for income differences , but these should reflect age , experience , skill and responsibility . |
| 22 | A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 23 | ‘ A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 24 | It enables him to consider , no doubt on advice , whether there are grounds for challenging the findings made by the judge who made the order . |
| 25 | Occupations with a high part-timer share are also those with a high casual worker share , and there are grounds for thinking that in certain cases the two categories of worker are functional equivalents . |
| 26 | There are grounds for cautious optimism . |
| 27 | In fact , there are grounds for suspecting that the conflict between static inefficiency and dynamic progressiveness is often more apparent than real , and , as we have seen , it is not entirely clear that cooperative R&D ventures significantly weaken those conflicts which do exist . |
| 28 | However , there are grounds for optimism . |
| 29 | There are grounds for suggesting that the market test can produce perverse incentives , as we have seen in Chapter 3 . |
| 30 | Once it is conceded that there are grounds other than eugenic ones for a separate offence of incest , then the question which inevitably arises is why the crime should be confined to sexual intercourse . |