Example sentences of "grounds that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an urgent ruling yesterday , the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ordered the government immediately to repeal specific clauses of the act which relate to the Spanish presence , on the grounds that they illegally discriminate against foreigners . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus the EC remains highly sensitive to the origins of garments made up within African countries when the woven fabric is imported from elsewhere , and may reject such imports on the grounds that they are not wholly manufactured within the exporting country . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Multilateralists on the Labour benches , who had supported the retention of nuclear weapons on the grounds that they gave Britain an independent foreign policy , were seriously discomfited by the obvious loss of a measure of that independence through acceptance of an American delivery system . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Therefore , I can no longer be allowed to escape criticism and analysis of my theistic views on the grounds that they are simply a matter of personal experience . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Critics it that time excluded authors inconvenient for their picture of a general return to tradition : Todd himself has little to say about authors such as B. S. Johnson and Christine Brooke-Rose , mostly on the grounds that they belong to a counter-cultural avant-garde never identified with the mainstream of British writing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I think it is unwise , therefore , to defend arts subjects on the grounds that they are a kind of social science . |
| 18 | Rather than defend the arts on the grounds that they are a branch of the sciences and therefore useful , I believe we should try to start again , attempting to lay on one side both the crude criterion of utility and the assumed category distinction between science and arts , itself in fact equally crude . |
| 19 | The scheme was criticized by Second Division Clubs on the grounds that they had to share the onus equally with the better-off . |
| 20 | ( You may wish to exclude sparsely populated local areas on the grounds that they do not qualify as towns . ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Central government has recently , therefore , sought to limit local authority expenditure and has further embarked upon the abolition of the metropolitan counties , created chiefly in order to secure the economies of scale for the services they provide , on the grounds that they are uneconomic in providing those services . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | How often is the decision left to junior doctors in the small hours of the morning who hesitate to increase dosage on the grounds that they do n't want to turn patients into addicts ? |
| 27 | Butchers in small towns were even less likely to reject cattle on the grounds that they might be stolen . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some of these aspects may well combine in complex and inexplicable ways in the learning process and clearly the teacher can not take the chance of depriving learners of effective learning conditions on the grounds that they can not be explained or controlled . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |