Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been criticised on the grounds that they may deny free speech , suppress significant literature or worthwhile criminological information , impinge upon copyright laws and have negligible effects upon those who actually profit from crime . |
| 2 | Butchers in small towns were even less likely to reject cattle on the grounds that they might be stolen . |
| 3 | She had been unpopular with militant nationalists , who suspected her of being too conciliatory towards Moscow , and they voted down her price rise proposals on the grounds that they might prove socially divisive and thus weaken Lithuania 's resistance to Soviet pressure . |
| 4 | On May 18 the Court ruled 5:4 that those acquitted of crimes by reason of insanity could not , after regaining sanity , be kept in mental institutions on the grounds that they might still be dangerous . |
| 5 | Some banks are already reported to be refusing to repossess land that is polluted or contaminated , on the grounds that they might be obliged to pay the costs of cleaning up the property . |
| 6 | But incredibly , up until 1980 , the park authorities were effectively denied even this chance ( except for moorland conversion ) because the MAFF refused to divulge details of grant applications on the grounds that they would lose the farmer 's confidence . |
| 7 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the Department of Employment was unable to provide more recent statistics on the grounds that they would be too costly to collate . |
| 9 | A similar fate befell councillors in Liverpool who , although not rate-capped at the time , delayed setting a rate on the grounds that they would otherwise have to make large spending cuts or impose rate rises ( contrary to the ruling Labour group 's manifesto commitments ) to maintain expenditure within the block-grant regime ( Parkinson , 1985 ; Travers , 1986 , especially 164–77 ) . |
| 10 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |
| 11 | Its leaders called for a postponement of the multiparty elections scheduled for Feb. 10 , 1991 , on the grounds that they would not have sufficient time to organize a campaign , but this demand was immediately rejected by the government . |
| 12 | There were many in the ruling party who treated the proposals with great suspicion , however , and who worked to delay and discredit them on the grounds that they would undermine the current factional structure of the LDP . |
| 13 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 14 | Greenpeace in turn criticized the Commission 's proposals on the grounds that they would give industry a licence to burn waste rather than encourage it to minimize the production of waste . |
| 15 | Some of these aspects may well combine in complex and inexplicable ways in the learning process and clearly the teacher can not take the chance of depriving learners of effective learning conditions on the grounds that they can not be explained or controlled . |
| 16 | Meals-on-wheels are not generally provided to disabled people on the grounds that they can not afford to eat ; rather they are provided because they need assistance to prepare a meal , and providers find it more convenient to meet this need by providing the meal itself . |
| 17 | Any intellectual challenge is removed on the grounds that they can not handle it , and so all edge , all interest , is gone . |
| 18 | Special schools provide education for children with special needs , on the grounds that they can not be educated satisfactorily in an ordinary school . |
| 19 | Since distinct evidence for political actions is contained overwhelmingly in official records , repudiating the use of other forms of cultural documents on the grounds that they can not be clearly interpreted becomes an implicit acceptance of the state 's officially articulated view of social , political and cultural organisation . |
| 20 | At first , economic pressures pushed clients to a grudging , reluctant use of search consultants , and a realisation that they were acceptable and tolerable on the grounds that they could save time and hassle and ultimately even money , and could carry out confidential corporate dirty work in tight spots . |
| 21 | ( On Feb. 28 the UN Security Council had warned Iraq of " serious consequences " after ballistic experts were refused permission to destroy Scud missile equipment , on the grounds that they could be of use in civilian industry — see p. 38788 . ) |
| 22 | Previously , ASEAN states had viewed with suspicion any effort to include environmental concerns in GATT on the grounds that they could be used as an excuse for a protectionist attitude by wealthy northern countries , and that , specifically , they could lead to a ban on the import of timber from south-east Asia . |
| 23 | With , against him , not only the new laws — on the grounds that they could well still be fully operative — but his 37 years , Probyn may miss out on Lions ' selection . |
| 24 | Qualifications disqualify the person from being considered ( e.g. on the grounds that they will become easily bored or might become a trouble maker ) . |
| 25 | Increasingly , it has been claimed that people who work in government , industry , the social services , etc. , ought to have some sort of specialist knowledge of society on the grounds that they will be better equipped to meet the demands of their work . |
| 26 | Virginia 's Pesticide Control Board has rejected restrictions on Carbofuran pesticide proposed by its manufacturer , FMC , on the grounds that they will not prevent bird deaths . |
| 27 | It is on these grounds that we could discount the ‘ rare exceptions ’ referred to by Nossal ( 1975 : 46 , above ) , since the superfluous testing which he condemns has a far greater probability of continuing to be of little benefit to mankind , even in the advancement of knowledge , than the work of Gray , Gallistel , or the early objectives of Blakemore . |
| 28 | ‘ And I have never turned down any woman for a job on the grounds that she might go and get married , or have a baby , thus necessitating six months ’ paid maternity leave . ’ |
| 29 | In late August , however , only days before the body was due to be transported , Imelda Marcos announced that the burial had been delayed on the grounds that she would not submit the body of her husband to the " indignity " of being transported on the cargo aircraft which had been offered by the Philippines ' government . |
| 30 | Modernism was played out , and it seemed absurd on all sorts of grounds that there should be no contemporary equivalent to The Faerie Queene or Trollope 's Barchester novels . |