Example sentences of "of [art] act of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no way that the content of my thought can both be something that the subject really thinks , apprehends or is conscious of , and yet fall outside the scope of an analysis of the act of thinking . |
| 2 | The 25th section of the Act of 1873 dealt specially with a number of points in which there was a difference between Law and Equity , of which the following may here be mentioned : |
| 3 | Apart from these cases , the entire property , other than that in which the deceased 's interest ceased at his death , is held by the executors or administrators on trust for sale , in the first instance for the payment of his debts , and then for distribution as laid down in the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 , which has replaced the relevant provisions of the Act of 1925 . |
| 4 | Similarly , even in that most abstract of arts , music , the playing of a musical instrument can inscribe the peculiar energy of the act of plucking , blowing or striking into its sound such that it is rendered unique or concrete . |
| 5 | Second , and even more striking , it only took the experience of one minority ( strictly speaking , in the case of James I , the absence of the king as an English prisoner ) to produce the remarkable expedient of the Act of Revocation , which every king thereafter passed when he came of age . |
| 6 | Scottish resentment can be seen in the half-heartedness of the act of 1555 concerning the spreading of seditious slanders . |
| 7 | Continuing parental contact and interest can also eradicate or at least minimize the sense of rejection felt by many adopted people because of the act of relinquishment . |
| 8 | The British crown was expected to pass to the Dowager Duchess Sophia of Hanover , by virtue of the terms of the Act of Settlement , but Sophia died early in 1714 , shortly before Anne died on 1st . |
| 9 | The modern reader had also become distrustful of the authority of the act of narration and of the narrative voice , hence the condemnation of omniscience in particular . |
| 10 | She is praised at the completion of the act of restitution . |
| 11 | Defences which may be available include : an Act of God ; the plaintiff 's consent ; or where the odour nuisance is a result of the act of a trespasser and the owner or occupier is ignorant of the nuisance , not having the means of knowing of the nuisance in time to prevent or abate its effect . |
| 12 | The government in London was kept well informed of what was happening and the rebellion might never have got off the ground but for the effects of the Act of Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland , which came into effect on 1 May 1707 . |
| 13 | Such alienation would , it seems , be inconsistent with the intendment of the Act of Settlement . |
| 14 | Apart from explorers and travellers , one of the first Englishmen to settle in Madeira was William Bolton , in 1695 , when he took advantage of the Act of Charles 11 which prohibited the export of goods grown or manufactured in Europe to the West Indies and American Colonies , unless shipped from British ports in British ships , with Madeira specifically excluded from its terms . |
| 15 | If the referee has missed the offence then the touch judge not only informs the referee of the act of foul play but will also advise the referee on the appropriate course of action , which could include a sending-off . |
| 16 | Furthermore , although Anne 's pregnancy may well have determined the exact timing of the Act of Appeals , the statute 's assertion that England was an empire was by then well-established government policy and echoed arguments formulated several years earlier . |
| 17 | In addition to his promotion of the Act of Parliament , Whitbread made a loan of £800 to the establishment of the House of Industry . |
| 18 | The personal pronouns , according to Lyons , form part of ‘ the ‘ deictic co-ordinates ’ of the typical situation of utterance ’ ; that is , they help to define ( along with such adverbs of place and time as here , there , now , then ) the spatio-temporal location of the act of communication . |
| 19 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |
| 20 | A wide variety of artforms is covered by copyright legislation and , particularly with some of the craft disciplines , it is as well to check the details of the Act of see precisely how your work is classified and covered . |
| 21 | Indeed , that ‘ as if ’ model is an important part of the act of communication and must itself be treated as an object of study . |
| 22 | The basic concept of the act of killing and the flow of blood remained as an image of the life force and the continuity of the kin group through conception , pregnancy and birth . |
| 23 | Some , contrary to the spirit of the Act of 1834 , supplemented wages and gave outdoor relief to the unemployed , recognizing that on occasion jobs were not to be found ; others offered only the workhouse . |
| 24 | ‘ Now there 's ane end of ane old song , ’ James Ogilvy , Earl of Seafield , had said as he signed the engrossed exemplification of the Act of Union . |
| 25 | Those seeds came to full flower when we attempted to analyse the consequences of the act of measurement . |
| 26 | If we want as accurate knowledge as we can get we must minimise the degree of disturbance caused by the intervention of the act of measurement . |
| 27 | The industrial tribunal dismissed the complaint on the grounds that s. 6(4) of the Act of 1975 permitted discrimination arising out of –provision in relation to … retirement' . |
| 28 | The court found that the authority was an emanation of the state and referred to the European Court of Justice the questions of whether the dismissal of the applicant after reaching normal retirement age for a woman constituted discrimination prohibited by Council Directive ( 76/207/EEC ) and whether the applicant could rely on the directive in national courts notwithstanding any inconsistency between it and s. 6(4) of the Act of 1975 . |
| 29 | Here , the metaphorical relationship of skin and painted surface is complete and the female nude becomes an embodiment of the act of painting itself . |
| 30 | She was advised that formal evidence would have to be called in order for her to form an opinion under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 as to whether the defendant should be remanded in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , and that accordingly the hearing would in effect be a trial and would require to be heard before at least two justices . |