Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an urgent ruling yesterday , the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ordered the government immediately to repeal specific clauses of the act which relate to the Spanish presence , on the grounds that they illegally discriminate against foreigners . |
| 2 | Many liturgical festivities were banished from the churchyard as pagan or blasphemous , and most of the mystery plays were suppressed on the grounds that they wrongly mixed ‘ scurrilitie with divinity ’ . |
| 3 | The patriarchal structures of psychoanalytic theory have often been defended on the grounds that they only describe the current customs of a patriarchal society . |
| 4 | Erm , it 's certainly true that we reduced the total size of a particular team or unit dealing with international affairs , but only on the grounds that we actually felt that it was very important that all the teams should be working on international and European dimensions of their work , rather than seeing it as compartmentalised in one area . |
| 5 | The 45 per cent quota imposed in October 1948 , in a futile attempt to support the films encouraged into production during the American boycott , had to be lowered to 40 per cent when 1,600 cinemas claimed exemption on the grounds that there simply were n't enough films to show , and it was reduced again to 30 per cent in 1950 ( the level at which it remained until its abolition 23 years later ) . |
| 6 | The dispute which led the Conseil d'Etat Luxembourgeois to seek a legal opinion from the ECJ arose quite simply from the withdrawal of Mr Ramrath 's authorisation on the grounds that he no longer satisfied Luxembourg law ( ie the requirement that he have a professional establishment in Luxembourg and that he fulfil conditions of professional independence ) . |
| 7 | Declining on the grounds that he no longer had any religious faith , Uncle Hilbert sent a silver christening mug , large enough to hold a pint of beer . |
| 8 | In support of Jovic 's resignation Jugoslav Kostic , the representative of the other autonomous Serbian province , Vojvodina , announced his withdrawal from the Collective State Presidency on March 16 on the grounds that he no longer recognised its authority . |
| 9 | Alcatraz on the grounds that he never finishes a sentence . |
| 10 | More interesting than any of this , though , was the dog which was allowed to bark in the night , presumably on the grounds that it no longer had any bite . |
| 11 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 12 | The WARM report criticizes the new German recycling system — which is rapidly being seen as a benchmark for materials recovery schemes throughout Europe — on the grounds that it unnecessarily duplicates existing waste collection networks . |
| 13 | A wide range of views on the question also emerged in the responses from private practitioners , from those ( including some sole practitioners ) who felt reports should be required every three months , to those who questioned the general value of the accountant 's report on the grounds that it only provided a snap shot of a solicitor 's accounts at one particular moment , and was therefore of little value in detecting fraud . |
| 14 | It is tempting to dismiss Symphony as yesterday 's software on the grounds that it now looks very unexciting even as a DOS product . |