Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] ground " in BNC.
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| 1 | thin ground I think you 're on dangerous grounds adjusting the formulations are n't you without |
| 2 | Now we 're on mutual ground . ’ |
| 3 | We 're exactly the same age , and have similar backgrounds , so we 're on common ground from the start . |
| 4 | In this business , you 're on dodgy ground trying to attach the words ‘ courage ’ and ‘ integrity ’ to anything ; certainly the Heavenly EP is for a good cause , and those involved are doing a lot for their profiles in the worthiest possible way , blah blah , charidee , blah blah AIDS , but Sinead has done too ( see following letter ) and in any case , she 's on another planet to these people . |
| 5 | This feature is also useful for keeping things in view when you 're on unsteady ground . |
| 6 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 7 | So when you 're talking about marketing and the marketing manager 's in the audience , you could say , ‘ Whoops , I 'm on dangerous ground — I know John over there knows a lot more about this than I do . ’ |
| 8 | But there is some danger where co-operatives are created out of economic adversity , for the situation is then one of commercial crisis and , important though the rescue may be on general grounds , it is far from an ideal basis on which to promote the reputation of co-operatives generally , or of Co-operation as an alternative form of organisation . |
| 9 | He opened the door of the basket and Endill climbed out shaking , but glad to be on solid ground . |
| 10 | In due course , these new laws were applied against the protesters who appeared to be on strong ground when challenging their convictions , since , in their haste to bring these laws into operation , the drafters had apparently acted ultra vires . |
| 11 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 12 | You ca n't be on middle ground , there is no neutral territory . |
| 13 | A number of patents may be on shaky ground as far as novelty is concerned if sufficient time and effort were expended on trying to trace anticipatory materials . |
| 14 | If modern man is to be persuaded , it will be on pragmatic grounds . |
| 15 | Here I must admit that I am on shaky ground . |
| 16 | I am on common ground when I remind the House that this case was immensely serious . |
| 17 | According to Berkeley Systems Design International 's Peter Collinson , based at the company 's Canterbury , Kent subsidiary in the UK , BSDI ‘ are relying on the Berkeley statement ’ that there is no AT&T code within BSD Networking Release 2 , the basis of its BSD/386 product ( UX No 370 ) , and as such they feel they are on solid ground ( see front page ) . |
| 18 | We are on solid ground when we say that we will oppose this Bill . |
| 19 | Again , you are on subjective grounds , but by just about any objective industry standard , Trantec are doing themselves a disservice paying for full pages for those ads . |
| 20 | Here we are on dangerous ground , though . |
| 21 | If the authorities do not respond to the opinions of the players then they are on dangerous ground and their motives might be questioned . |
| 22 | ‘ We are on ancient ground , ’ he said softly , ‘ a sacred place . |
| 23 | We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise . |
| 24 | All may be well in the Chamber because we are on familiar ground , but outside in the real world of fish markets and the North sea , all is not fully well . |
| 25 | What is vitally important is the difficulty of knowing which of them , relevant to difficult ethical issues , are on biological grounds in fact true . |
| 26 | Even within the same culture , comparative tests of intelligence are on shaky ground ; as has often been observed , all that IQ tests are good at measuring and demonstrating is the ability of individuals to pass IQ tests . |
| 27 | But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds . |
| 28 | This sense of being on fresh ground where new aspects of behaviour , new distributions and even new species are still to be discovered , adds greatly to the book 's fascination as a comprehensive account of the family . |
| 29 | But you see it 's jut new regulations and a lot of the graveyards were on sandy ground and they 'd be quite liable |
| 30 | They were on weak ground , for there were no precedents for this , and on 8 March the Cologne assembly , now meeting at Mulhouse , divested Philip of this title and denied the validity of his election , saying that it had been carried out in an unusual place and that the count Palatine and the archbishop of Mainz had been absent . |