Example sentences of "it a offence " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Article 5 of the draft made it an offence to ‘ propagandise against the rule and policy of the party , the law of the state or against socialism . ’ |
| 2 | Furthermore , the Child Abduction Act 1984 makes it an offence for any parent or guardian to take or send a child out of the United Kingdom without the consent of any other person who is a parent or guardian of the child . |
| 3 | From July 22 , EC Directive 2092/91 comes into force , making it an offence to describe a wine as organic unless it has been approved by a governing body , itself approved by the EC . |
| 4 | We will make it an offence to supply anabolic steroids to minors . |
| 5 | We also , in the Broadcasting Act , brought in sanctions against the transmission of offensive satellite broadcasts from abroad , and made it an offence for advertisers and equipment suppliers to support such programmes . |
| 6 | These acts make it an offence to kill these wild animals and they have an obvious effect on conservation ; that these animals are not being killed — at least if the law is being obeyed . |
| 7 | He was embittered , as could be expected , at the government 's neglect of the Canadian Indian , and he resented the laws that made it an offence to sell liquor to an Indian and which confined the original Canadian population to reservations . |
| 8 | Section 78(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 , makes it an offence to carry out this activity , unless it is done in a place registered under the 1906 Act , where controls can be exerted to minimise any pollution . |
| 9 | The Intoxicating Substance Supply Act , passed in 1985 , makes it an offence to supply to a young person under 18 a substance which the supplier knows , or has reason to believe , will be used ‘ to achieve intoxication ’ . |
| 10 | S 46 makes it an offence for a person to act as a charity trustee while disqualified . |
| 11 | Secondly , s.13 of the PF(I) Act made it an offence to knowingly make a misstatement in an investments deal . |
| 12 | In 1556 William Cecil rather primly referred to a request from Henry Cobham , ‘ pretending it an offence to sell an office ’ . |
| 13 | Section 1 covers all forms of spying making it an offence if any person , for purposes prejudicial to the interests of the state : ( a ) approaches , inspects … enters any prohibited place ; or ( b ) makes any sketch , plan , model or note which … might be useful to the enemy : or ( c ) obtains or communicates to any other person any information … calculated or intended to be , or which might be useful to the enemy . |
| 14 | But section 2 of the 1911 Act went far beyond spying , making it an offence to disclose or receive official information . |
| 15 | Section 1(1) makes it an offence for any member or former member of the security and intelligence services to disclose information relating to these services . |
| 16 | The Mental Health Act 1959 , especially in s.128 , which makes it an offence , as mentioned above , for a man in various situations of care to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a woman in his care . |
| 17 | Barristers and solicitors together with certificated notaries ( who are normally also solicitors ) and licensed conveyancers enjoy a statutory monopoly which makes it an offence for any other persons to draw up or prepare documents connected with the transfer of title to property for payment . |
| 18 | Section 4 makes it an offence to carry on investment business in contravention of section 3 . |
| 19 | But whatever the government 's motivation , the Official Secrets Act — a steamroller of an Act , as it then stood , which made it an offence to divulge almost anything of any kind ascertained in the course of official duties — was not used . |
| 20 | Erm we used to get complaints about kerb crawlers , but as you know , we had a a new law that was allegedly attributed to Nottingham , which made it an offence to , in certain circumstances to kerb crawl , looking for prostitutes . |
| 21 | Having assessed the responses to that paper , we concluded that the best way forward was to strengthen the 1979 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act to make it an offence to remove finds from scheduled sites whether or not they were discovered by means of a metal detector . |
| 22 | This section ( 1 ) disqualifies persons in certain trades from acting in any way as a member of a board , ( 2 ) disqualifies a person holding a disqualifying interest in a company from taking part in proceedings in which the company is an applicant or an objector , ( 3 ) disqualifies an employee of a licence holder under the Act , and any person engaged in a business dealing with alcoholic liquor , including the directors , officers and employees of companies engaged in such businesses from acting as a member of a licensing board , ( 4 ) disqualifies a member of a board , who is the owner or tenant of premises , from acting in the granting of a certificate in respect of those premises , ( 5 ) makes it an offence to contravene the section , ( 6 ) declares , subject to the proviso ( that the grant of a new licence is not liable to objection on the ground that one or more of the members of the board who granted it were not qualified to act ) , anything done in contravention of the section void , and ( 7 ) exempts members of a committee to determine the distribution of licences in a new town from disqualification for being members of a board by reason of their membership of the committee . |
| 23 | The subsection imposes an absolute prohibition on a clerk of a licensing board , his partner , or clerk acting on behalf of any person in proceedings before a licensing board , and makes it an offence to contravene the subsection . |
| 24 | Subss. ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) make it an offence to contravene any of the conditions of an occasional licence . |
| 25 | ( 5 ) 5.85 gives the police power of entry into licensed premises , and makes it an offence to refuse or obstruct such entry . |
| 26 | Now that sounds fairly unambiguous , but in 1940 Congress passed the Smith Act which , at a time of fear of subversion , made it an offence ‘ to advocate the overthrow of the United States Government ’ . |
| 27 | The Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 , section 2 makes it an offence to engage in ‘ riotous , violent or indecent behaviour ’ in places of worship belonging to the Church of England and places of worship certified under the Religious Worship Registration Act 1855 . |
| 28 | The Public Service Vehicles ( Conduct of Drivers , Conductors and Passengers ) Regulations makes it an offence for a person to ‘ use obscene and offensive language , or to conduct himself in a riotous or disorderly manner . ’ |
| 29 | For the first time , it makes it an offence to possess racially inflammatory material , and films , videos and records are brought explicitly within the ambit of the Act . |
| 30 | That term is sometimes used loosely to refer to travellers and persons of nomadic habits , and in Mills v. Cooper a Divisional Court accorded the term such a meaning for the purposes of the Highways Act , which made it an offence for a gypsy to encamp on a highway . |