Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher also appears to have intervened more directly than previous Prime Ministers in the promotion of Permanent Secretaries , preferring less senior and ‘ obvious ’ candidates on the grounds that they were impatient with the status quo and not ‘ defeatist ’ . |
| 3 | Mr Fowler added that in the Government 's even-handed approach to employment , people would have the right to belong to a union and could not be excluded from a job on the grounds that they were trade unionists . |
| 4 | The only basic concession we made to the Chancellor was to exclude the self-employed on the grounds that they were not covered by SERPS in any event . |
| 5 | But so long as Mary of Guise 's position was upheld by her daughter , no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen , and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason ; thus , for example , when they seized the coining-irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July , it was an intelligent enough political and military act , but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent 's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow . |
| 6 | This was plainly not part of the agreement and not only was the French government furious but it used the sentence as an excuse to generate public support for Mafart and Prieur on the grounds that they were being unfairly treated by the New Zealand government . |
| 7 | There were fewer in Court circles , though even here some took up appointments on the grounds that they were serving France and not the dynasty . |
| 8 | Generally , he was not allowed to photograph any of the original wooden stations on the grounds that they were too old , presumably an affront to Soviet progressivism and modernity . |
| 9 | The Court of Appeal … dismissed an appeal from two Liverpool police constables against the awarding of £15 each as damages to Edwin Ledwith and Christopher Crothers , on the grounds that they were wrongly arrested by the appellants . |
| 10 | To avoid considering these consequences on the grounds that they were not intended is not only to be blind to much human suffering , but also to accept the relative positions of intention compared with indifference on a common-sense hierarchy of immorality . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people were arrested on the grounds that they were suspected of rebel activity . |
| 12 | When , in April 1916 , the assistant matron , Miss Loader , and the children 's attendant , Miss Thomas , resigned on the grounds that they were unable to work with the matron , and when Mrs. Adams , the labour mistress , also appeared before the committee with a similar complaint , it was evident that all was not well . |
| 13 | However in attacking the failure to ensure adequate political representation for labour , any opposition group , let alone the Communist Party , had to face repression on the grounds that they were challenging the entire fabric of the Emperor system . |
| 14 | It was not simply the principle of such an analysis being employed as a means of over-seeing their activities , they also objected to the ‘ league tables ’ ( as they called them ) on the grounds that they were an inaccurate and misleading data base for such an analysis , given the nature of the field man 's work : |
| 15 | In an action brought by the plaintiff against E. Lacon & Co. under the OLA 1957 , E. Lacon & Co. denied liability on the grounds that they were not occupiers of the private part of the premises . |
| 16 | These refusals were mainly from relatively high-status households , and where they were not categorical ( for example , people sometimes excused themselves on the grounds that they were too busy to be interviewed ) , were dealt with initially by a follow-up visit . |
| 17 | How he thought he could love Mama so much and dislike her friends and relations on the grounds that they were Italian , I do n't know . |
| 18 | Proposals by Dr Robert Rentoul for the compulsory sterilization of the unfit had already been given short shrift by the BMA in 1904 , on the grounds that they were contrary to medical ethics . |
| 19 | Many cases have subsequently been brought claiming the annulment of Community measures on the grounds that they were founded on the wrong legal base , the underlying purpose of such actions being to defend or strengthen the powers of the applicant Member State or institution . |
| 20 | Sepulveda justified the enslavement of the Indians on the grounds that they were the natural slaves mentioned in Book I of Aristotle 's Politics ; the Dominican Friar Las Casas admitted the frailty of the Indians but argued that they were all the more children of God owing to their very lack of capacity and skill , which still implies a sort of sub-humanity but of a different kind . |
| 21 | On grounds that they were funding programmes which included abortion , the US cut off its support to UNFPA . |
| 22 | There was also a possibility that documents seized during the US invasion of Panama could be ruled inadmissible as evidence on the grounds that they were illegally obtained . |
| 23 | These demands , reportedly based on views expressed in local Basic People 's Congresses , were criticized by Kadhafi in his congressional address on March 6 , on the grounds that they were not representative of true public opinion . |
| 24 | In recent years a broad spectrum of Filipino opinion — ranging from conservative nationalists to the communist NPA — had opposed the presence of the bases on the grounds that they were an affront to the sovereignty of the Philippines and were a vestige of the country 's past colonial relationship with the USA . |
| 25 | Shortly before this development , three magistrates who had been seconded to assist Sica had been withdrawn on the grounds that they were working too closely with the police , thereby prejudicing their independence as magistrates . |
| 26 | The Constitutional Court of Yugoslavia on Jan. 14 annulled the key articles of Slovenia 's July 1990 sovereignty declaration [ see p. 37622 ] on the grounds that they were unconstitutional . |
| 27 | He stressed , however , that he had immediately sought to have the weapons removed on the grounds that they were inconsistent with Hungary 's policy of maintaining " balanced relations with both East and West " . |
| 28 | In parliament , opposition party tactics were to capitalize on popular discontent with government economic policy by opposing specific measures , such as price increases , on the grounds that they were either inopportune or part of a generally faulty government economic strategy . |
| 29 | He refused to answer questions , however , on the grounds that they were related to the criminal charges upon which he was currently facing trial . |
| 30 | After starting in the pillbox , they moved out into the rain on the grounds that they were Irish , and came wonderfully just as a shaft of sun broke through and warmed them , too poetical , too symbolic , too fucking marvellous for words , crooned Jessica . |