Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the Department of Employment was unable to provide more recent statistics on the grounds that they would be too costly to collate . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Edward himself sought refuge in Stirling castle , but was refused entry by the governor on the understandable grounds that he would certainly be captured . |
| 12 | Wilson justified the tough measures on the grounds that he would not be able to meet his 1990-91 deficit target of Can . |
| 13 | When asked if they would like subventions from the state to aid their stipends and church buildings , a move which was being seriously considered by the British government at the time , priests and bishops were united in rejecting the idea on the grounds that it would drive a wedge between clergy and people , identifying clergy with the principal enemies of the people . |
| 14 | GEC , Ferranti 's main British rival in radar , is also keen to mount a takeover bid but would encounter fierce Ministry of Defence opposition on the grounds that it would damage competition in electronics procurement . |
| 15 | Some wonder why the bank stuck with Mr Parretti , even though his attempt to take over a French cinema chain in June 1990 was blocked on the grounds that it would ‘ threaten public order ’ . |
| 16 | Some of those arguing for mixed-ability teaching did so on the narrowest professional grounds that it would improve teaching and learning , obliging teachers to treat pupils as individuals each proceeding at a different pace and in a different manner . |
| 17 | Stotesbury ordered gold-plated plumbing in her car on the grounds that it would ‘ save so much polishing , you know ’ . |
| 18 | They no longer have the power to direct planning authorities to refuse an application for development on the grounds that it would substantially and adversely affect their interests . |
| 19 | Tom King did try on one occasion to attack Labour 's defence policy — but mainly on the grounds that it would lose jobs . |
| 20 | Although the Committee recommended that the BBC should not accept advertising on its television channels on the grounds that it would not be a satisfactory long-term solution to the impending restructuring of broadcasting , it made a number of significant proposals which would have the effect of recreating broadcasting as a market of consumers and producers . |
| 21 | And all Mr Clinton 's supporters look nervous when reminded that California 's Proposition 166 , which tried to make firms pay for health-insurance for all their employees , was shot down in flames last November on the grounds that it would destroy jobs . |
| 22 | Erm who was able to hold er the Russians back from intervening on the grounds that it would be er seen as intervention in a er in in in a revolt . |
| 23 | The suggestion for a community treatment order was rejected by some , on the grounds that it would infringe civil liberties , there was insufficient research to justify this extra measure , the existing legislation provided a sufficient framework to give the necessary powers to deal with the problem , and changing the law might divert attention from the real need to provide resources to support an acceptable programme of community care . |
| 24 | As far as state-owned items are concerned , Italy , Greece , Spain and Portugal oppose any time limit on requests to return an illegally removed object , on the grounds that it would be inalienable . |
| 25 | The Witt Librarian John Sunderland rejects the idea of charging a fee for consulting the archive on the grounds that it would raise only a few thousand pounds . |
| 26 | Middle-class feminists , particularly members of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship , of which Eleanor Rathbone was the President , strongly supported family allowances largely on the grounds that it would undermine the concept of the family wage and thereby ( a rather optimistic thought ) pave the way for equal pay for equal work . |
| 27 | Ramsay MacDonald and Mrs Pankhurst , leading members of the Independent Labour Party , were among those who were opposed to the proposal on the grounds that it would seriously weaken the family as an institution . |
| 28 | She refused on the grounds that it would be rude to her hosts . |
| 29 | A majority believed that UNTCOK should supervise elections in the south but Australia , Canada and India were against doing so on the grounds that it would perpetuate and not eliminate the division in Korea . |
| 30 | The Mensheviks , among whom Martov played a leading role , rejected Lenin 's vision of the party on the grounds that it would institutionalize the gap between intelligentsia and workers , between party and class . |