Example sentences of "it [art] criminal [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Manager Brian Horton called it a criminal performance . |
2 | In Kenya Harris Okong'o Arara continues to serve a five-year sentence imposed in 1988 under a law which makes it a criminal offence simply to possess literature critical of the government . |
3 | The bill makes it a criminal offence , punishable by a £1,000 fine , for a lender to try to force a mortgage applicant to use the lender 's own services . |
4 | The general ground swell of opinion in Washington enabled the ‘ American Firsters ’ in Congress to force through the MacMahon Act in August 1946 , making it a criminal offence to divulge classified atomic information to any other country , including Britain . |
5 | What would be the relevance of section I(2) ( a ) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , which makes it a criminal offence for the person legally liable to maintain the child not to provide , inter alia , medical care ? |
6 | Changes in the Pakistan Penal Code introduced in recent years make it a criminal offence for Ahmadis to profess , practice and propagate their faith . |
7 | My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction . |
8 | In November 1965 the government of Southern Rhodesia declared unilateral independence and the United Kingdom passed legislation , the ‘ sanctions order , ’ making it a criminal offence to supply oil to Southern Rhodesia . |
9 | First , it makes it a criminal offence for anyone in the course of a business to display at a place where consumer deals are likely to be made ( e.g. at a shop or garage ) a notice of an exemption clause which is void by virtue of section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
10 | It makes it a criminal offence for the advertiser to fail to make it clear that he is selling in the course of a business . |
11 | Section 1 makes it a criminal offence for any person acting in the course of trade or business to supply , or offer to supply goods to which a false trade description is applied . |
12 | It makes it a criminal offence to make a demand for payment without reasonable cause to believe there is a right to it . |
13 | During the election campaign Gamsakhurdia 's opponents had concentrated on attacking what they claimed were his dictatorial tendencies ( a week before the election his ruling Round Table-Free Georgia coalition had sponsored legislation passed by the Georgian parliament making it a criminal offence , punishable by up to six years in prison , to insult the Georgian President ) . |
14 | The use of certain exclusion clauses is made a criminal offence : the Consumer Transactions ( Restriction on Statements ) Order ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) makes it a criminal offence to seek to exclude or limit liability for breach of the implied terms in contracts of sale where the buyer deals as a consumer a defined in the UCTA 1977 . |
15 | The Consumer Transactions ( Restrictions on Statements ) Order 1976 ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) makes it a criminal offence to display a notice or supply a document ( such as a set of standard terms ) containing a notice or term purporting to exclude liability for breach of the statutory implied terms and made ineffective by s6 of the UCTA 1977 . |
16 | Essentially , this is a consumer protection device making it a criminal offence to sell , by way of competitive bidding , prescribed articles listed in s3(2) : … any plate , plated articles , linen , china , glass , books , pictures , prints , furniture , jewellery , articles of household or personal use , or ornament or any musical or scientific instrument or apparatus . |
17 | They are suggesting that you put country sports with child abuse and drink driving , to make it a criminal offence . |
18 | It 's now proposing to make it a criminal offence to park a caravan on land without consent . |
19 | The National Association of the Self-employed and Small Businesses wants to make it a criminal offence to issue cheques that are returned unpaid because no funds are available in the drawer 's account . |
20 | The Wild Mammals ( Protection ) Bill seeks to make it a criminal offence to inflict cruelty on any wild animal and , in particular , to outlaw all hunting with dogs and the use of all snares . |
21 | Their proposed bill would make it a criminal offence to plant surveillance devices on private property to gain personal information , and an offence to take long-distance photos of people on private property — such as those of the Duchess of York topless with her ‘ financial adviser ’ , John Bryan , last year . |
22 | The Committee not only recommended statutory provision making all surrogacy agreements illegal and therefore unenforceable in the courts , but also called for the introduction of legislation rendering it a criminal act for any person to assist in the establishment of a surrogate pregnancy . |