Example sentences of "there [be] ground for " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the present time , there are grounds for similar concern about both the public and the private sector . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Now there are grounds for this disquiet despite its being misplaced . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But there are grounds for arguing that in the UK case a considerably better productivity record would have resulted in a smaller absolute fall . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On the evidence to date , however , there are grounds for judging unions in relation to management as slightly the lesser sinners . |
| 13 | Despite these cognitive and linguistic demands , there are grounds for predicting that young children will be able to handle intentional explanations . |
| 14 | There are grounds for arguing that learning hierarchies like this which are both progressive and universal are extremely difficult to find . |
| 15 | Clearly there are grounds for income differences , but these should reflect age , experience , skill and responsibility . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There are grounds for cautious optimism . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , there are grounds for optimism . |
| 21 | There are grounds for suggesting that the market test can produce perverse incentives , as we have seen in Chapter 3 . |
| 22 | Having said this , I still believe there are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature . |
| 23 | There are grounds for a compromise and each case must be considered on its merits . |
| 24 | There are grounds for qualified optimism because in the past 18 months South Africa has renounced its nuclear ambition , no longer considering that there is a regional threat to the authority of its state . |
| 25 | One working assumption might be that the rules governing conversation between persons can be extended in a natural way to cover the new situation , but there are grounds for doubting that this is what literally occurs . |
| 26 | According to Gregory , Chlodomer 's kingdom was divided equally between Childebert and Chlothar , but in so far as this division can be reconstructed it appears not to have been confined to the two brothers ; there are grounds for thinking that Theuderic also may have profited from the murders . |
| 27 | There are grounds for doubting this opinion . |
| 28 | I think we should express our concern in the way that it 's being handled and I think there are grounds for concern and I think must be aware that this Council is watching what they 're doing . |
| 29 | There were grounds for believing that only fear of the consequences of dismantling UNRWA for the stability of the host governments guaranteed the perpetuation of its services , pending a solution to the refugee problem . |
| 30 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |