Example sentences of "act [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1949 Representation of the People Act effectively brought to final fruition the principle of " one person one vote . " |
| 2 | It should be remembered that there was no prosecution brought under the 1927 act right up to its repeal by a Labour government in 1946 . |
| 3 | Second , administration is accompanied by a form of inquisitorial justice in which judicial institutions act assertively rather than passively , inquisitorially rather than adversarially . |
| 4 | The legs act rather like shock absorbers . |
| 5 | The growth spurt in boys and girls often begins with the hands and feet , which is why they sometimes look a bit clumsy and act rather awkwardly , until the rest of the body catches up . |
| 6 | In any poem or text , certain words have cardinal importance , some moderate importance , and others act merely as ‘ infilling ’ to complete the sense . |
| 7 | A limited defence is provided by the Obscene Publications Act for those defendants who act merely as innocent disseminators of obscene material . |
| 8 | If I can keep up the Peter Sellers act long enough without dying of laughing , I might just get meself a few pints out of it . |
| 9 | You will realize by such actions that you have ‘ adopted ’ the site and , if you act rightly , honestly , and with good intentions , it will thank you . |
| 10 | Clay masks which dry on the skin are grease-absorbing and act better on oily skins . |
| 11 | ‘ I know you 're not a jewel thief , Mandy , but I also know you sometimes act impulsively , thinking it 's OK to do something that 's wrong if you have the right motive . ’ |
| 12 | If dividends are insignificant as Modigliani and Miller have suggested , then this requires that corporate financial officers act irrationally . |
| 13 | The gens is a group of people who act together on an egalitarian and communal basis . |
| 14 | At night our internal clock , sleep , and our inactive environment act together to decrease temperature and urinary loss . |
| 15 | In our daily lives , many of our systems act together to maintain health and activity . |
| 16 | This route would have been wishful thinking to the classical organic chemist hut the reaction proceeds readily in the presence of rhodium , one of the rarest metals , and of iodine , which act together as a catalyst system . |
| 17 | Thus the experimental activity and the instructional activity are reciprocally enhanced , and the most effective pedagogy is one in which the two act together , each informing and reinforcing the other . |
| 18 | Because marker colour is transparent the different layers of colouring act together |
| 19 | Act together for tomorrow 's world . |
| 20 | The authors conclude that it is more likely that many other factors should also be included in the analysis such as motivation , nicotine dependence , personality type , self-efficacy , therapeutic support , etc , which act together in a complex way and would substantially increase the explained variance of smoking cessation . |
| 21 | To read documents from French sources about space , and to meet officials of the CNES , is to acquire the impression that France tried to help Europe get its space act together ; but whenever the latter failed to meet the challenge , France did what it could regardless . |
| 22 | These two factors act together to create and reproduce social hierarchy . |
| 23 | Though maternal age and birth order have an independent effect on the viability of the fetus , that act together . |
| 24 | However , the management and Newco may be " connected persons " within the meaning of s286(7) TCGA 1992 if they act together to secure " control " of Newco or Target , so that a manager 's ability to utilise a realised capital loss will be restricted . |
| 25 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 26 | Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act much more happily together than in play |
| 27 | Some decline to accept private clients and act only for employers . |
| 28 | This is not to say that complementary therapies act only at the psychological level . |
| 29 | I am the TCCB 's lackey , and I act only when they order me . ’ |
| 30 | Book-destroyers of this kind , especially when they blatantly advertise their wares as suitable for breaking and framing for an inn , a billiard room or boudoir , act only in the cause of financial gain and have no respect for the qualities to be found in a complete book . |