Example sentences of "before the [num] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1983 Act , the C. and A.G. was head of the Exchequer and Audit Department which was made up of around 600 civil servants . |
| 2 | Before the 1983 Act , it had been suggested that these statutory audits were supplemented by economy , efficiency and effectiveness audits . |
| 3 | This situation bears an uncomfortably close resemblance to the picture which obtained before the 1981 Act when children were assessed under the old SE procedures as in need of special educational provision . |
| 4 | Atiyah , op. cit. ( pp. 34–38 ) , referring to the bills of exchange position before the 1882 Act , to ‘ golden handshake ’ transactions and forbearance to sue , and the one-time ability to enforce a promise to pay a statute-barred debt ( abolished by the Limitation Acts ) and to enforce a promise to carry out a promise given for consideration during infancy ( abolished by the Infants Relief Act 1874 ) argues that ‘ … the rule about past consideration is too broadly stated . |
| 5 | Anne Smith , counsel for the parents , referred Lords McCluskey , Caplan and Wylie to the situation before the 1976 act was passed . |
| 6 | Most local authorities now run small family group homes instead of the larger children 's homes common before the 1948 Act . |
| 7 | Since , in relation to shares ( as opposed to debentures ) there were no other practical advantages in conversion , this now rarely takes place though many major public companies which date back to before the 1948 Act still have stock . |
| 8 | The outstanding feature of the new county system , as compared with the one before the 1972 Act took effect , is that the counties absorbed the hitherto independent county boroughs which thereupon ceased to exist , a decision which , in retrospect , some now think was a mistake , since the county boroughs were effective multipurpose authorities . |
| 9 | Before the 1972 Act , it was usual for principal authorities to have a fairly standard pattern of senior officials — a medical officer of health , an engineer and surveyor , a chief education officer and so on , but there has been a development towards different breakdowns of functions and new titles . |
| 10 | In order to appreciate some of the present problems and the need for a reform , it is necessary to examine the pattern of local government as it stood before the 1972 act . |
| 11 | Before the 1967 Act the labs had a hard time of it , I can tell you , when all scientific evidence had to be given orally . |
| 12 | Before the 1967 Act , the company acquiring the computer would have no remedy for this innocent misrepresentation , unless it was deemed to be a contractual term , as it would be too late to have the contract set aside . |
| 13 | There was a benign vagueness to the law on detention before the 1984 Act . |
| 14 | The Uthwatt Committee noted that there were only three cases in which betterment had actually been paid under the Planning Acts , and all these were before the 1932 Act introduced a provision for the deferment of payment until the increased value had actually been realised either by sale or lease or by change of use . |
| 15 | Even before the 1977 Act , computer programs were not generally patentable per se , but there have been cases , both in the United Kingdom and in the United States , where computer programs have been granted patents indirectly , usually as being part of a piece of machinery or an industrial process . |
| 16 | However , there is authority from cases decided before the 1977 Act that the approach to such clauses is first to construe the contract to define the parties ' obligations without reference to the disputed clause , and then take account of the clause in order to decide what its effect is on those obligations ( see Karsales ( Harrow ) Ltd v Wallis [ 1956 ] 1 WLR 936 ) . |
| 17 | Before the 1988 Act , the governing bodies had control only over religious instruction . |
| 18 | In the years before the 1988 Act , the government introduced elaborate procedures to control the spending of local authorities , initially by financially penalising those authorities that exceeded the amount the government thought they should spend , and ultimately by imposing limits on the amount of revenue a recalcitrant authority could raise ( ‘ rate capping ’ ) . |
| 19 | Joan Sallis ( 1988:170 ) summed up some of the common problems before the 1988 Act began to bite : Governors say headteachers are defensive . |
| 20 | Such works were protected before the 1988 Act but there were difficulties in determining the identity of the author of the work for copyright purposes . |