Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — undercounting bombs and missiles on grounds that they took 10 to 20 times longer to reach their destination than ballistic missiles ; |
| 2 | The proposals were rejected , however , by the rebel groups currently controlling substantial areas of the country [ see pp. 37239-40 for military setbacks for Mengistu 's forces in February ] , on the grounds that they contained nothing designed to promote a peace settlement , but rather sought to bolster the regime 's capacity to fight the war . |
| 3 | Initially Mitterrand pressed for a rejection of the Senate 's amendments on the grounds that they amounted to an attempt to elevate the powers of the indirectly elected Senate to those of the directly elected National Assembly . |
| 4 | The action was brought against the police on the grounds that they failed to inform the prison authorities of the deceased 's suicidal tendencies . |
| 5 | Some of the practices of the colonial state were re-introduced , including corporal punishment , and some of those elected to village councils were rejected on the grounds that they had held positions under the previous regime . |
| 6 | Only after that did the order go to the waiting troops to smash the uprising on the transparently false grounds that they had been asked to assist in quelling a ‘ counter-revolution . ’ |
| 7 | The scheme was criticized by Second Division Clubs on the grounds that they had to share the onus equally with the better-off . |
| 8 | The magistrate dismissed the case against Lord Harlech and Stephen Murphy on the grounds that they had acted in good faith and with due care and attention to the issues involved . |
| 9 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 10 | So , Bath surrendered a league point on the grounds that they had fielded an ineligible player , New Zealander Laurie Heatherley , against London Irish . |
| 11 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 12 | A FURTHER ATTEMPT WAS MADE BY PHOENIX TO PUBLISH THE ARTICLE IN A FOLLOWING ISSUE — AND AGAIN THE PUBLISHER JOHN MULCAHY WAS TOLD THAT SMURFIT WEB PRESS WOULD NOT PRINT IT ON THE GROUNDS THAT THEY HAD BEEN ADVISED THAT THE ARTICLE WAS DEFAMATORY . |
| 13 | This proved to be the case : on 29 June 1960 the Cuban government — encouraged by Khrushchev 's statements of Soviet support — seized the refineries operated by the multi-nationals on the grounds that they had violated the law by their refusal to process Soviet petroleum . |
| 14 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 15 | Paul Mba Abessole , a prominent opposition figure and leader of a faction of the main opposition group , the National Rectification Movement ( Morena ) , refused to accept a Cabinet post , as did some other opposition politicians , on the grounds that they had not been consulted on the composition of the new government , which included a number of ministers from the outgoing Cabinet . |
| 16 | Meanwhile reports in mid-June 1990 indicated that Mauritania was continuing to deport large numbers of its black population on the grounds that they had obtained their nationality fraudulently . |
| 17 | They were given suspended prison sentences of up to two years on the grounds that they had caused no serious damage . |
| 18 | Some 200 Russian Jews had come to the Netherlands from Israel via Hungary in mid-1991 and sought asylum on the grounds that they had been discriminated against when they arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | On Jan. 3 the government claimed to have defeated the rebels and on Jan. 7 the French government started to pull out its reinforcements on the grounds that they had only been sent in to protect French expatriates and that this purpose had now been served . |
| 20 | On Feb. 2 , in accordance with the recommendation of the Multi-Party Democratic General Elections Commission of the Union of Myanma , the SLORC ordered the abolition of 17 political parties , on the grounds that they had failed to provide the Commission with details of their party structures and membership . |
| 21 | The overwhelming majority of Serbs , who accounted for some 31 per cent of the population , boycotted the referendum on the grounds that they had already made clear their preference in local referendums for Bosnia-Hercegovina remaining within Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 23 | The sellers were therefore able to recover that item ( or , actually its value ) on the grounds that they had already puported to terminate the contract with the buyers ; however , it is not difficult to imagine cases where a difference of one day could be crucial and defeat the sellers ' claim . |
| 24 | The Spraire Lads football team , good lads too , got £300 but the Darlington and District Council did n't get to much as a packet of bird seed , on the grounds that they had enough already . |
| 25 | Lazarev declared foreign military bases as illegal on the grounds that they violated the ‘ criterion of the will of the people ’ by which the legality of international agreements and foreign policy acts should be judged . |
| 26 | The dissolution of the remaining chantries in 1547 , for example , was justified on the Lutheran grounds that they encouraged ‘ vain opinions ’ concerning purgatory and intercessory masses and left people ignorant of ‘ their very true and perfect salvation through the death of Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 27 | They preferred sparse and unadorned church interiors , and objected to pictures and statues on the grounds that they encouraged the worship of images . |
| 28 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
| 29 | The proposals , backed by Western countries , had reportedly been resisted by Third-World governments on grounds that they encouraged relief agencies to interfere in civil wars . |
| 30 | Both of the options put forward by the Democrats were rejected by Bush on the grounds that they involved too much structural reform and were contrary to the principles of the free market . |