Example sentences of "as [art] [noun] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is known as the Appropriation Act because it not only grants approval for the total sums requested , but also prescribes how the overall sum is to be apportioned to particular votes in order to finance specified services . |
| 2 | They also , however , supported voluntary effort and legislation , such as the Factory Acts , to help children who lacked adequate family support . |
| 3 | Other powers are given by such acts as the Firearms Act 1968 ( persons , vehicles in any public place can be searched for firearms ) ; Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 ( permits the police to stop and search for controlled drugs anywhere ) ; Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and various Wildlife Conservation Acts . |
| 4 | The National Labor Relations Act ( often known as the Wagner Act ) replaced section 7a of the NIRA by a considerably more effective measure , recognizing the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively . |
| 5 | ICE-T and BODY COUNT , who replaced Faith No More as the opening act on the Metallica/GN'R US tour , have been bumped from the Los Angeles area dates . |
| 6 | These can be sub-divided into two broad categories : record retention requirements , such as the Companies Act 1985 , ss.221–222 ; and requirements to disclose information to various authorities/persons , which imply the need to maintain records , such as the Data Protection Act 1984 ( see below ) . |
| 7 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 8 | The removal of many married women from wage labour , the innovations such as the Education Act of 1870 , and ideological forces also tended to rigidify the gender divisions . |
| 9 | Consent to a change of control is often required if a company has authorisation under statute , such as the Banking Act 1987 , Consumer Credit Act 1974 , Financial Services Act 1986 and the Civil Aviation Act 1982. ( 2 ) Government grants . |
| 10 | He helped to frame much of the persecuting legislation of the reign , such as the Conventicle Acts of 1664 and 1670 . |
| 11 | Legislation such as the Charities Act 1992 provides a welcome focus on the achievements of the voluntary and community sectors . |
| 12 | For example , a study could be made of the impact of some piece of legislation , such as the Abortion Act or the Divorce Law Reform Act of 1971 . |
| 13 | The Government argued that as the Wages Act removes rights to paid holidays , additional rates for weekend and shift work , as well as 550,000 young people losing their rights to minimum wages , these cuts are justified . |
| 14 | He was able to introduce what has become known as the Herbert Act to extend the grounds for divorce to include ( in addition to adultery ) desertion , cruelty and incurable insanity . |
| 15 | It has been occurring for many years and has been embodied in legislation such as the Housing Acts of 1935 and 1957 , although numbers of sales have fluctuated considerably according to the political complexions of the government of the day . |
| 16 | The general requirements in the Order , which came into force on 1 May 1979 , will replace parts of earlier Acts such as the Factories Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1965 and the Office and Shop Premises Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1966 but they do not supersede the detailed requirements contained in the earlier legislation . |
| 17 | As the factories Act case illustrates , the courts sometimes Allow themselves to construe a statute in such a way as to produce a reasonable result , even though this involves departing from the prima facie meaning of the words . |
| 18 | This Act , known as the Addison Act after its sponsor the minister of health , while not the first legislation to allow local authority house building , was the first to subsidize it . |
| 19 | Sacred works of art such as the Wandjina act as powerful images , capable of stimulating and intensifying mind power during rituals , similar in nature to Yantras or designs used in Tantric meditative techniques . |
| 20 | Other pieces of legislation such as the Vagrancy Act 1898 and the Licensing Act 1964 have been used to tighten up what could be seen as loop-holes in the law . |
| 21 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 22 | As the Children Act waits , poised for implementation , it remains to speculate on how significant and successful it is likely to be : and it is tempting to do so with benefit of hindsight in the context of all the discarded child care legislation of the past forty years . |
| 23 | To take an example , suppose that you wish to find the late annotations to a statute printed in the Continuation Volumes of Halsbury , such as the Children Act 1975 . |
| 24 | The original Act had been amended in the years before 1979 by such Acts as the Misrepresentation Act 1967 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 25 | But some branches of Equity , like some branches of the Common Law , have been restated with amendments and additions in codifying Acts , such as the Partnership Act 1890 . |
| 26 | Tony did n't have time to waste booking him as a support act or doing a club circuit or anything like that . |
| 27 | But despite a guest appearance by Jack Nicholson , and the assistance of the ingenious Simenon ( a man so uninfatuated by Prince and all his works that he fell asleep during the Sign O The Times movie ) , does Cat have the creative wherewithal to make it as a solo act ? |
| 28 | — Ex-Starz vocalist Steven is now into his fourth week as a solo act working under the name of Wade Steven . |
| 29 | As for the fans , I can summon up little sympathy for dinner-jacketed men who sit around tables with their belts bulging while boxers spatter their tuxedo with blood as a cabaret act . |
| 30 | That children early in language acquisition produce isolated acts of reference , seems to support the view of reference as a speech act ( see Chapter 5 ) that is prototypically " demonstrative " ( Lyons , 1975 ; Atkinson , 1979 ) . |