Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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1 | He had evidently suffered a fit of amnesia , and overlooked not only the European Communities Act , 1972 , which tore a great hole in this country 's legislative independence , but that much earlier aberration , the signature of the European Convention of Human Rights in 1950 . |
2 | This is particularly so in the area of obscene or indecent publications , where , interestingly , some of the older legislation ( e.g. part of the Customs Consolidation Act 1876 , now incorporated in the Customs & Excise Act 1952 ) is invoked instead of the new legislation ( e.g. the Obscene Publications Act 1964 ) , partly because some of this more recent legislation has become less effective in securing convictions . |
3 | The issue of people not being able to leave the forces until they are 21 was raised by the Select Committee that examined the Armed Forces Bill , now the Armed Forces Act 1991 . |
4 | The Department of Trade and Industry has ruled out an official Companies Act investigation of the flotation , in which the ashes of up to half a million share certificates were discovered in a skip in South London and tens of thousands of other documents were botched . |
5 | Since then the Financial Services Act 1986 and the Companies Act 1989 have required us to do likewise in relation to investment business and to audit work . |
6 | At least the European Communities Act , if I remember rightly , had been the subject of a debate or two . |
7 | CONSIDERING the Labour Party so opposes blood sports , it is a pity that several Labour MPs were absent from the House of Commons on February 14 when the Wild Mammals Act was debated . |