Example sentences of "grounds [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the GIST schools were mixed comprehensives , and at first teachers were most unwilling to separate boys and girls at all , on the grounds that it ran counter to their co-educational comprehensive philosophy . |
| 2 | July 26 , 1976 The barrister successfully applied to have the third party notice struck out on the grounds that it disclosed no cause of action . |
| 3 | A Colorado State bill which would allow fruit and vegetable growers to claim compensation from anyone who falsely maligned their products has been vetoed by the state 's Governor , Roy Romer , on the grounds that it constituted a threat to free speech . |
| 4 | In 1979 the Court of Appeal , at the behest of Mr Jeremy Thorpe , stopped " The Spectator " from publishing an election address by Auberon Waugh , " Dog Lovers Candidate " for North Devon , on the grounds that it contained matter which would prejudice Thorpe 's impending trial for conspiracy to murder . |
| 5 | On hearing of these terms and before Ferdinand died , Sancho refused to accept this partition on the grounds that it went against the rights of the eldest son . |
| 6 | This position has been called ‘ classical ’ or ‘ Ricardian ’ , on the grounds that it goes back to Ricardo 's discussion of the capitalization of the tax burden of financing debt : |
| 7 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 8 | By the end of the 1960s many economists were critical of this policy of fine-tuning on the grounds that it added to rather than reduced the instability of the economy . |
| 9 | I detest the fact that so many famous paintings have been moved in the past , against the wishes of their creators ; and that the transfer of ‘ Guernica ’ has been justified on the grounds that it belongs to the State . |
| 10 | France announced on June 3 that it would sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) , which it had hitherto refused to endorse on the grounds that it compromised France 's nuclear independence . |
| 11 | The three powers issued a joint ultimatum to Japan demanding retraction of the Liaodong cession on the grounds that it endangered Beijing and invalidated Korean independence . |
| 12 | Moving beyond the confines of the literary , perry Anderson has similarly dismissed all poststructuralism on the grounds that it represents ‘ the randomisation of history ’ . |
| 13 | In a statement issued after the meeting the resolution was described as " totally unacceptable " on the grounds that it failed to condemn Palestinian violence and questioned Israel 's sovereignty over Jerusalem . |
| 14 | Public-sector workers began industrial action on April 27 — the first such action in the sector since 1974 — after employers rejected a mediating panel 's proposal for a 5.4 per cent wage rise on the grounds that it failed " to take account of current economic conditions " . |
| 15 | Timbmet , whose yards had earlier been the target of demonstrations by Earth First ! activists , claimed that the wood had a valid Chilean export certificate , granted on the grounds that it came from standing dead trees . |
| 16 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 17 | However , the last National Assembly was dissolved in 1975 on the grounds that it interfered with the administrative affairs of government . |
| 18 | On the other hand , for those who regard language with suspicion , especially written or printed language , on the grounds that it misleads and confuses as much as it informs and expresses , eliminating words and sentences exposes a level of communication of unsuspected richness , one in which human beings express their true meanings . |
| 19 | She argues against the individual approach on the grounds that it retains the segregation of pupils with learning difficulties which support teaching was intended to diminish . |
| 20 | Despite the universal belief in France that the Channel Tunnel is a project with major public sector implications , there was some opposition to the use of the Grand Chantier procedure from both local and regional authorities on the grounds that it challenged the spirit of the 1982 decentralisation laws . |
| 21 | The Soviet Union and its allies refused to sign the San Francisco peace Treaty in September 1951 on the grounds that it violated an agreement on ‘ one peace ’ reached in 1942 , and condemned the Security Treaty . |
| 22 | The change provoked an extended strike on the part of the largely Russian speaking blue-collar labour force , and the Supreme Soviet Presidium in Moscow declared the legislation unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the principle of equal electoral rights ( some 80,000 , it was estimated , would be deprived of the franchise under the new regulations ) . |
| 23 | The creation of the autonomous region had been opposed by the Moro National Liberation Front ( MNFL ) , the largest of the separatist guerrilla organizations , on the grounds that it made insufficient concessions to Moslem autonomy and failed to meet the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 24 | In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country . |
| 25 | The Institute of Economic Affairs had for a long time been polemicising against the extension of state activity on the grounds that it restricted choice , led to dependency and reduced the motivation to work , and fostered economic inefficiency in comparison with ‘ private enterprise ’ . |
| 26 | A deadly nerve poison , it was once used as an animal poison but is now banned on the grounds that it kills with extreme cruelty . |
| 27 | The National Association for Staff Development ( NASD ) , for example , characterized it as ‘ a meagre preliminary to what should be an urgent discussion of a markedly neglected topic ’ , and the Regional Management Centres Association ( RMCA ) found little sympathy for the discussion paper on the grounds that it reflected a traditional approach to staff development . |
| 28 | Several governments , particularly that of the UK , sought during 1989 to portray the expansion of nuclear power as a suitable response to global warming , on the grounds that it emitted virtually no " greenhouse gases " . |
| 29 | The Mother 's Defence League , organised during the 1920s , opposed all intervention in the working class home on the grounds that it threatened to undermine the working class wife 's responsibility for the welfare of her family and reduce her to a servant and drudge . |
| 30 | Since the ITVA can , however , approve a script and then reject a film on the grounds that it does not conform to the script ( or the letter of the script ) , the agency and the production house have to be very careful how they interpret the outcome of discussions with the ITVA . |