Example sentences of "ground [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole concrete structure was sunk into the ground so it seemed only about four feet high . |
| 2 | The LTE objected to the direction on the ground that it failed to have regard to the LTE 's financial duty under section 7(3) to break even so far as is practicable . |
| 3 | As we have seen , Hayek criticizes Oakeshott 's traditionalism on the ground that it does not provide a framework for critical evaluation of social evolution . |
| 4 | A Central Authority may object to a Letter on the ground that it does not comply with the Convention , for example because the contents are insufficiently full , whereupon it must promptly inform the sending authority . |
| 5 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 6 | Perhaps western Governments should take a lead from the United States of America , which terminated its aid programme to Pakistan on the ground that it refuses to desist from non-civilian nuclear development . |
| 7 | T. Nagel has criticised Rawls ' theory of justice on the ground that it purports to be neutral between different conceptions of the good , but is not . |
| 8 | The defendants sought to have the claim struck out on the ground that it disclosed no cause of action . |
| 9 | By summons , issued on 15 March 1991 , the third , fourth and fifth defendants asked , first , for an order that the action be struck out against them on the ground that it disclosed no reasonable cause of action or , alternatively , that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer be struck out . |
| 10 | We voted against it on the ground that it seemed absurd to respond to a crisis in the beef sector simply by throwing yet more money into a system which has not been reformed . |
| 11 | Retributivism justifies punishment on the ground that it is deserved by the offender ; reductivism justifies punishment on the ground that it helps to reduce the incidence of crime . |
| 12 | The respondents tried to distinguish the former on what it is submitted is the irrelevant ground that it operated in legal systems , such as the French , in which the criteria for establishing jurisdictional competence did not always guarantee a close connection between the defendant and the forum . |
| 13 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 14 | Crozier sought to delay the making of the statement on the ground that it defamed him and might prejudice the jury in Barnet 's action against him , which would come on for trial some six months later . |
| 15 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 16 | In R. ( O'Brien ) v. Military Governor , N.D. U. Internment Camp ( 1924 ) a decision of the old Irish Court of Appeal , a Public Safety ( Emergency Powers ) Act was declared invalid on the ground that it had not been passed in accordance with the procedure laid down in the constitution . |
| 17 | The court refused to issue an order of mandamus on the ground that it had not been established that such a blanket directive had been issued and that it was within his rights to deploy his forces as he wished . |
| 18 | Lord Diplock also pointed out that the only case brought to their Lordships ' attention in which an appellate court had actually excluded evidence on the ground that it had been unfairly obtained by a trick was Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 . |
| 19 | Thus , I doubt whether any attempt to review the plaintiff 's decision on the ground that it had failed to consider the planning option would have succeeded . |
| 20 | Mr. Robert Hughes : I think that the Minister intended some slight criticism of the new clause on the ground that it refers only to the companies covered by the Bill . |
| 21 | Friend the Member for Aberdeen , North said that when an attempt was made in Committee to create a consumer body with a wider remit , the Chairman ruled it out of order on the ground that it went beyond the scope of the Bill . |
| 22 | Godwin in his book Political Justice ( 1793 ) , written during the time of the French Revolution , with its slogan of ‘ Liberty , Equality , Fraternity ’ , argued for the abolition of private property on the ground that it retarded the moral and intellectual development of a society because of its inequality . |
| 23 | The learning process for Composers Pen is quite a lengthy one , partly because of the complex ground that it covers , but do not be put off by this as the effort expended will be more than worth it in the end . |
| 24 | Two of the expressions cited , however , are more problematic : ‘ I wish my estate to be Titius ' ’ , no doubt on the ground that it contains no words of transfer such as restituere ; scio , because it is not a request to pass on property , but an assertion of a conviction ( and who is to say whether that is justified ? ) . |
| 25 | These skills , however , are being applied to support the Vance-Owen peace plan on the ground that it contains a concession which Lord Owen says he has not made . |
| 26 | For years the headscarf was frowned upon and sometimes banned on the ground that it encouraged dissent among children of different religions . |
| 27 | On the application of both defendants Wright J. set aside the order in so far as related to such disclosure on the ground that it infringed their privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 28 | On an application by Mr. and Mrs. Tully , Wright J. made an order on 20 August 1991 setting aside the disclosure order on the ground that it infringed their privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 29 | Hobhouse wrote The Metaphysical Theory of the State specifically to criticize Bosanquet 's idealist theory on the ground that it provided too expansive a role for the state . |
| 30 | However , the Law Commission recommend the retention of strict liability for this type of harm on the ground that it provided a simple method of allocating liability for what were usually comparatively small damages . |