Example sentences of "grounds [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | BSC refuses to give unions a cost comparison with the other plants on the grounds that it is ‘ commercially confidential ’ . |
| 2 | However , the navy and many MPs are likely to oppose Mr Kaifu 's plan , currently the government 's official position , when next year 's budget comes before parliament on the grounds that it is too expensive . |
| 3 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 4 | The cut fell on 145 , one over par , and consequently 63 of the original field of 83 made it under what is known as the ‘ 10-stroke rule ’ — anyone who is within 10 shots of the leader , on the theoretical grounds that it is still possible to win from there . |
| 5 | Pro-abortion groups also oppose the protocol on the grounds that it is too restrictive . |
| 6 | OUTRAGED AND CONCERNED PARENTS hope to ban Margaret Atwood 's novel , ‘ The Handmaid 's Tale ’ , on the grounds that it is too sexually explicit and anti-Christian to be read by high school seniors . |
| 7 | Such ‘ relevance ’ as this must be rejected , then , on the grounds that it is unjust . |
| 8 | It may be rejected also on the grounds that it is patronizing . |
| 9 | Although some feminists rejected psychoanalytical theory on the grounds that it is inherently woman-unfriendly , many feminist film theorists after Mulvey saw Lacan 's work on the psychic formation of gendered identity in relation to specularity ( gazing in the mirror ) , the unconscious and language as central to their concerns . |
| 10 | There are now two active groups of doctors and a group for nurses which were set up specifically to oppose the use of animals in medical research on the grounds that it is unscientific . |
| 11 | People often object to practising behaviours that they do not usually use on the grounds that it is n't natural . |
| 12 | Everyone of my age has suffered from the character who insists on having bedroom windows open , for instance , on the grounds that it is a healthy dodge and worthy of all men to be received . |
| 13 | What stopped me in my tracks was a sentence reading , ‘ The dung beetle program really can not be justified on the grounds that it is cheaper than a horse ’ . |
| 14 | For this reason , it would not be appropriate to discourage technological progress on the grounds that it is likely to increase structural unemployment . |
| 15 | The Vice Squad have taken their cue and there have been reports of seizures of safer-sex literature on the grounds that it is obscene : e.g. ‘ Vice Squad rejects ‘ crude ’ AIDS leaflet' ( The Guardian . |
| 16 | In the past , fresh fish used as bait has been standard-rated , on the grounds that it is not intended for human consumption . |
| 17 | In this situation , that proportion of the goodwill written off directly to reserves that relates to the estate agency business should be charged to the profit and loss account as part of the costs of closing that activity on the grounds that it is a separate business . |
| 18 | ‘ Use ’ is to be preferred as a charge on the grounds that it is easier to prove , being a clearly defined term , and attracts less defences than ‘ cause ’ and ‘ permits ’ . |
| 19 | It is opposed by the British Association of Social workers on the grounds that it is ageist and does not adequately safeguard the rights of clients ( Marshall , 1988 , p. 20 ) . |
| 20 | U2 's Greenpeace benefit in Manchester 's Heaton Park next month has been attacked by councillors , on the grounds that it is ‘ environmentally unfriendly ’ . |
| 21 | Alternatively , laws-of-war considerations can lead to advocacy of the enhanced radiation weapon or neutron bomb , on the grounds that it is aimed specifically to destroy military targets ( Johnson , 1984 , pp. 46–7 ) — but this could lead to pressure for first use of nuclear weapons . |
| 22 | While the Language in Use team wish to order priorities differently and the Humanities Project 's teachers wish to rearrange literature to illustrate relevant social issues , there is an extreme form of resistance to literature on the grounds that it is part of the ‘ syllabus of established middle-class culture ’ . |
| 23 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 24 | London University is proposing to cut all funding to the Witt Photographic Library , part of the Courtauld Institute of Art , on the grounds that it is in excess of the Institute 's internal needs . |
| 25 | However , the naturalistic account should not be rejected on the grounds that it is inadequate , as though it could be polished up a bit and made more acceptable : rather , it should be dismissed because it presents an entirely distorted picture of social reality . |
| 26 | In Prague , the procurator-general has issued a statement threatening to ban Communist Party political activity on the grounds that it is a totalitarian organisation similar to the fascists . |
| 27 | In rural areas , modern medicine is sometimes rejected on the grounds that it is intrinsically bad . |
| 28 | Second , in taking the argument to be necessary Nozick tacitly accepts that his theory is not as purely externalist as it might initially appear , and hence he can not claim immunity from an attack merely on the grounds that it is internalist . |
| 29 | We might argue for a logical ordering between Levels 1 and 2 on the grounds that it is not possible to measure differences between people if you do not realise that they vary . |
| 30 | In Britain , mother tongue learners of English are discouraged from using repetition on the grounds that it is ‘ bad style ’ , and encouraged to use a device known as ‘ elegant repetition ’ , where synonymous or more general words or phrases are used . |