Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | The scheme was criticized by Second Division Clubs on the grounds that they had to share the onus equally with the better-off . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So , Bath surrendered a league point on the grounds that they had fielded an ineligible player , New Zealander Laurie Heatherley , against London Irish . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They were given suspended prison sentences of up to two years on the grounds that they had caused no serious damage . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I mean it 's lovely because he er he adores to get into does Edmund and that means that he and George go about this lovely big er grounds that they 've |
| 22 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 23 | Or perhaps authority may come from some prestigious so the domain of the practitioner , as when techniques are recommended on the grounds that they have the warrant of proven theory . |
| 24 | The materials which I designed myself as illustrative of a particular approach to teaching ( for example , Widdowson 1978 ; Allen and Widdowson 1973 ) , have been criticized on the grounds that they have not been subjected to evaluation and thereby given the seal of practical effectiveness ( Murphy 1985 ) . |
| 25 | Despite this , it is on their breeding grounds that they have been most studied . |
| 26 | Stern and Partridge admit that monographs and specialised studies already exist on all these rooms , and make no claim to have discovered new material , but justify their extended reconsideration of the ‘ halls of state ’ on the grounds that they have never been analysed together as monuments of public art . |
| 27 | Some dealers gain exemptions — sometimes dubiously — on the grounds that they have traded in the market for at least two years prior to a cut-off date . |
| 28 | That they 're th No , th I 'm not I 'm discriminating o against them on the grounds that they have legs that do that . |
| 29 | The Act enables the authorities to detain anyone ‘ 'reasonably ’ suspected of being involved in the commission , preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism' ( Hewitt , 1982:166 ) for up to 7 days , and to take out exclusion orders banning British and Irish citizens from leaving or entering Great Britain or Northern Ireland on the grounds that they have been , or intend to become , involved in acts of terrorism . |
| 30 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |