Example sentences of "the ground that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
| 2 | They would not confirm the loan — on the ground that they never comment on arrangements with clients . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By section 16 of the Adoption Act 1976 , an adoption order should not be made unless the parties agree or the court was satisfied that making of the adoption order should be dispensed with on , inter alia , the ground that the parent was withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 5 | The appellant appealed on the ground that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty should have been excluded by the trial judge in the exercise of his discretion under section 78(1) of the 1984 Act . |
| 6 | But it is unjust that the individual 's right of access to the courts should be restricted solely on the ground that there has been delay in making the application . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was not necessary for the court to decide the issues raised on the ground that the judge was wrong to treat the proceedings as properly constituted representative proceedings , although the vital importance of the making of an application under Order 5 , rule 5(2) promptly and before judgment was observed . |
| 10 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 11 | In July 1931 he declared that he could not ‘ work with anyone except on the ground that he believes in the guarding of our home market and the development of our Imperial market as absolute essentials ’ . |
| 12 | In May 1989 Judge Wroath made an adoption order and ordered that the parents ' consent to the adoption be dispensed with on the ground that it was being unreasonably withheld . |
| 13 | So far as is known , nobody else has been arrested or charged in connection with the murder of Mr Mxenge The State President , Mr F. W. de Klerk , last week refused to order a judicial commission of inquiry into the death-squad allegations on the ground that it would be faster to use the ‘ tried and respected prosecution mechanisms of the state ’ . |
| 14 | Mr Bartle , the stipendiary magistrate , declined jurisdiction to hear the charges on the ground that the delay in the investigation and prosecution of the case constituted an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 15 | However , an exception is to be made for appeler n and jeter ( and their derivatives ) , which are to be allowed to continue to double their last consonant on the ground that these verbs are ‘ more fixed in common usage ’ . |
| 16 | Oignon ( onion ) becomes ognon on the ground that this is how it is pronounced ( what would happen to Inglish if it were spelled phonetically ? ) . |
| 17 | For years the headscarf was frowned upon and sometimes banned on the ground that it encouraged dissent among children of different religions . |
| 18 | At a meeting of foreign ministers earlier this month Mr Hurd opposed a German plan to send emergency aid to Israel , on the ground that the right procedures had not been followed . |
| 19 | In early February , the chief of the general staff , General Mikhail Moiseev , sharply attacked the party 's military policies and accused it of failing to stem the tide of anti-military sentiment now sweeping the outlying republics ( 5,000 Lithuanians , for example , recently refused their call-up papers on the ground that the Geneva convention allows people to refuse to serve in the army of an occupying power ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But the rule was confirmed by the Criminal Law Revision Committee in 1980 , on the ground that a defendant should not be left in peril of a homicide conviction indefinitely . |
| 22 | Some people take exception to this on the ground that it may imply that women generally have weaker characters and are less responsible for their behaviour . |
| 23 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee recommended that killings in pursuance of a suicide pact should be a separate offence , on the ground that the stigma and maximum penalty for manslaughter are inappropriate in these cases . |
| 24 | This was not always so : in Senior ( 1899 ) a man who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar People refused to call a doctor to his child , who subsequently died ; he was held guilty of manslaughter on the ground that he had committed an unlawful act ( wilful neglect of the child ) which caused death . |
| 25 | The Divisional Court quashed D 's conviction for assaulting a police-officer in the execution of her duty , on the ground that the officer herself had assaulted D by taking hold of D's arm . |
| 26 | Critics argue that the whole point of this offence is to provide protection for young girls , and that this will be undermined if it is open to men to seek an acquittal on the ground that the girl looked 16 . |
| 27 | For to choose a man on the ground that you agree with him more than his rivals is quite clearly to choose a representative ; moreover , the set of people who agree with a candidate comes to look very like a party as soon as they concert their actions . |
| 28 | But his subjects evidently doubted his good faith , for in June the tax collectors in Staffordshire and Shropshire were resisted on the ground that the king had not carried out his promises regarding the forest . |
| 29 | Thomas Constable and John Gilpin justified their ‘ unlawfull resystance ’ to the Forest officers on the ground that the right of hunting the deer in Hackness manor belonged exclusively to Sir John Constable of Burton . |
| 30 | He petitioned the Chief Justice of the Forest to ‘ remit his fine and order his enlargement ’ on the ground that he was ‘ a very poor man with many children … and is altogether unable to pay the said fine . ’ |