Example sentences of "ground [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would not confirm the loan — on the ground that they never comment on arrangements with clients . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal dismissed a mother 's appeal from an order of Judge Wroath in the Portsmouth County Court on 11 May 1989 that a girl should be adopted and that the parents ' consents to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that they were unreasonably withheld . |
| 3 | In today 's preliminary hearings at the High Court a 36-year-old farmer and 25-year-old X-ray technician both claim a right to asylum under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to Refugee Status on the ground that they have a well-founded fear of persecution if they are deported . |
| 4 | The council as highway authority lodged an objection to the registration of the road verges on the ground that they formed part of the highway . |
| 5 | But he claims his request for details of the regulations was refused on the ground that they are ‘ very severe ’ and that Cameron Balloons would find it impossible to meet them . |
| 6 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 7 | The violence of these movies is sometimes excused on the ground that they portray violence already existing in society or that they entertain . |
| 8 | Yet how many times have Deborah or her brothers and sisters been refused secondment on the ground that they could not be spared either because ‘ there was no money ’ or because Peter , who could very thankfully be released , was sent off instead . |
| 9 | The German advance came to a halt , and during the autumn months the French were able to retake all the ground that they had earlier lost . |
| 10 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 11 | People who are denied political privileges like this on the ground that they are not standard items naturally tend to reply that the charge is false — to claim that they are actually just as standard as everybody else . |
| 12 | A few opposed the proposals on the ground that they gave international sanction to an undemocratic regime , but it was the more nationalist elements which were particularly vocal , and there was a broad measure of support for their sentiments . |
| 13 | Acts of Parliament have also been challenged on the ground that they have been improperly passed . |
| 14 | ( C.A. , 1948 ) Lord Greene M.R. stated that decisions could also be challenged on the ground that they were unreasonable . |
| 15 | The plaintiff who did not give evidence in the county court failed to recover the excess payments on the ground that they were made voluntarily . |
| 16 | It is not open to the health authority to deny liability on the ground that the organism that they injured was not in law the plaintiff and yet to deny responsibility for the defects with which the plaintiff was born on the ground that they inflicted them before birth . |
| 17 | On 26 April 1991 the Bank of England , who have entered the action as interveners pursuant to my order made on the first day of the hearing last Tuesday , served on the defendants a notice pursuant to section 39(3) ( a ) of the Banking Act 1987 , requiring them to produce at Threadneedle Street at noon on 9 May 1991 a number of specified documents ( comprising all or some of the documents covered by the injunction ) and stated to concern or relate to the accounts or related business of seven of the plaintiffs including A , on the ground that they were reasonably required by the Bank of England for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 18 | The judge in determining those issues held , inter alia , that under the terms of the mortgage deeds and other securities the defendants were entitled to a full indemnity against their costs , charges and expenses and the plaintiffs could not object to the items in the accounts on the ground that they were unreasonable except where the items referred to costs in the litigation subject to an order for taxation . |
| 19 | On 13 October 1988 , Chief Master Munrow ordered that the question whether the plaintiffs could object to certain items in the account on the ground that they were unreasonable should be tried as a preliminary issue . |
| 20 | The taxing master disallowed a number of items on the ground that they were ‘ not mortgagee 's costs , that is , such costs as mortgagees are entitled to against the property in mortgage . ’ |
| 21 | ( 2 ) On the taking of the account the plaintiffs are entitled to object to items therein contained on the ground that they have been unreasonably incurred or are of an unreasonable amount . |
| 22 | By a summons dated 15 March 1991 the third , fourth and fifth defendants ( ‘ the solicitors ’ ) sought an order pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 18 , r. 19 that the amended statement of claim , alternatively that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim , be struck out as against them on the ground that they disclosed no reasonable cause of action ; alternatively , an order pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 14A that the court had no power under section 6(2) of the Financial Services Act 1986 to make the order sought in paragraph 11 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim and that the court had no power under section 61(1) of the Act of 1986 to make the order sought in paragraph 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim . |
| 23 | While I agree that orders made under section 6(2) and section 61(1) must be restricted to their proper restitutionary purpose , it is not , in my opinion , right to emasculate the restitutionary remedy available against persons ‘ knowingly concerned ’ on the ground that they are not liable to be subjected to compensatory remedies . |
| 24 | There is in my judgment no objection to the decisions attacked in this case on the ground that they were or may have been taken by junior ministers rather than by the Secretary of State . |
| 25 | Sometimes too he would take duck and geese as they floated on some high lochan , coming on them so low along the ground that they only saw him when the massive darkness of his wings came over the peat edge and shadowed out their life . |
| 26 | But I suppose even tiny creatures like him have a hole in the ground that they call a home . |
| 27 | The peers also consulted the judges on occasion and when they did so in 1614 over the long-debated matter of the right of the King to tax through ‘ impositions ’ without Parliamentary approval , Coke took the view that the judges should not be required to give an opinion ‘ on the ground that they were expected in judicial course to speak and judge between the King 's majesty and his people , and likewise between His Highness 's subjects , and in no case to be disputants on any side ’ . |
| 28 | The court rejected these arguments but also ruled that those refused entry on the ground that they were not genuine visitors must normally use their statutory right of appeal ( available only after they have left the United Kingdom ) and not use judicial review . |
| 29 | They applied to the local authority for accommodation as homeless persons , but were rejected on the ground that they had accommodation . |
| 30 | If so , bearing in mind that intention in this context is not the same as motive and that the tort may be committed without any ill will towards the plaintiff , it is likely to be a rare case in which A's words have had a causative effect on B's conduct and yet A escapes liability on the ground that they were only ‘ advice . ’ |