Example sentences of "[vb past] it a offence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Article 5 of the draft made it an offence to ‘ propagandise against the rule and policy of the party , the law of the state or against socialism . ’ |
| 2 | We also , in the Broadcasting Act , brought in sanctions against the transmission of offensive satellite broadcasts from abroad , and made it an offence for advertisers and equipment suppliers to support such programmes . |
| 3 | He was embittered , as could be expected , at the government 's neglect of the Canadian Indian , and he resented the laws that made it an offence to sell liquor to an Indian and which confined the original Canadian population to reservations . |
| 4 | Secondly , s.13 of the PF(I) Act made it an offence to knowingly make a misstatement in an investments deal . |
| 5 | But whatever the government 's motivation , the Official Secrets Act — a steamroller of an Act , as it then stood , which made it an offence to divulge almost anything of any kind ascertained in the course of official duties — was not used . |
| 6 | Erm we used to get complaints about kerb crawlers , but as you know , we had a a new law that was allegedly attributed to Nottingham , which made it an offence to , in certain circumstances to kerb crawl , looking for prostitutes . |
| 7 | Now that sounds fairly unambiguous , but in 1940 Congress passed the Smith Act which , at a time of fear of subversion , made it an offence ‘ to advocate the overthrow of the United States Government ’ . |
| 8 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |
| 9 | This made it an offence for anyone to conduct insurance business in the UK without authorisation and resulted from concern following the collapse of several ( mainly general insurance ) companies in the 1970s . |
| 10 | The section , introduced on 1 July last year — less than two weeks before the accident — made it an offence for a driver to cause death by careless driving and while over the drink drive limit . |