Example sentences of "act [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 2 | In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation in my view involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 3 | ‘ involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 4 | While it is correct to say that appropriation for purposes of section 3(1) includes the latter sort of act , it does not necessarily follow that no other act can amount to an appropriation and in particular that no act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner can in any circumstances do so . |
| 5 | ‘ involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 6 | The actual decision in Morris was correct , but it was erroneous , in addition to being unnecessary for the decision , to indicate that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner could never amount to an appropriation . |
| 7 | ‘ In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation in my view involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 8 | ‘ In Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 the House of Lords held that ‘ In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation … involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of [ the owner 's ] rights . ’ |
| 9 | But the word ‘ provoked ’ does seem to require a human act rather than a natural event which leads D to lose self-control . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , one of these is sexual intercourse , where the trauma of the sex act rather than reinfection causes the recurrence . |
| 11 | ( Their powers and duties resemble those given to English and Welsh school governors by the 1986 Education Act rather than those given by the 1988 Education Reform Act . ) |
| 12 | The contact becomes an act only if in some way or another it can be provided with a social meaning . |
| 13 | Common sense suggests that a person who submits to an act only because he believes that otherwise he will be over-powered and have it done to him anyway does not consent in law , even though the force necessary to overpower him will be small and non-injurious . ’ |
| 14 | The year after this Act was passed , Tory MP Winston Churchill tried to extend the scope of the Obscene Publications Act so that it would apply to television . |
| 15 | The procedures for assessment and the evaluation of educational needs have become more formalised since the 1981 Education Act so that now a report from a qualified teacher of visually handicapped children is a requirement of the assessment procedure for a child whose learning or development is affected by defective sight . |
| 16 | In this , the offender re-describes his or her act so that its offensiveness may be overlooked or discounted . |
| 17 | ‘ There is a power given by the Act itself to the minister to modify another section of the Act so that when the minister does produce that modification … that regulation becomes in fact part of the Act . |
| 18 | What is needed is for Parliament to amend the Act so that it explains exactly how far the rule-making powers go . |
| 19 | ‘ First the Law Lords allowed a breach of the Homicide Act so that Tony Bland died by involuntary euthanasia , then a Select Committee on euthanasia was set up in their Lordships ' House , only to be rechristened ‘ Medical Ethics ’ . |
| 20 | As honourable members will recall , Sir Thomas was persuaded to this view by in part a conclusion of the treasurer and civil service select committee , that although the existing permissive nature of section forty seven had worked well it seems desirable in his words , to tighten the wording of the act so that there can be no doubt , either from the point of view of the auditor , his client or the regulator , as to the auditor 's duty to report . |
| 21 | In Hobbes 's view , humans always act according to desires , and so always act so as to produce the increase in vital motion , which is pleasure . |
| 22 | Some anthropologists ( notably Dickemann 1979 ) have interpreted human societies on the assumption that people act so as to maximise their inclusive fitness ; i.e. that they behave as predicted by kin selection theory , with the added assumption that individuals know , at least approximately , their degree of relatedness to other members of their society . |
| 23 | In the bees and the higher Diptera only the indirect muscles of the mesothorax generate the power needed for flight ; the metathoracic indirect muscles are capable only of tonic contraction and act so as to control the amount of power transmitted from the mesothorax to the metathorax . |
| 24 | By a notice of appeal dated 23 April 1992 the Treasury Solicitor appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) on a true construction of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 the court was precluded from making the order for examination ; ( 2 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in making the order and in holding that ( i ) it was possible to interpret section 9(4) of the Act so as not to preclude the order sought , ( ii ) the exclusion contained in section 9(4) was restricted to cases where the actual capacity in which the witness was called on to give evidence was a Crown capacity and that the fact that the evidence sought was acquired in the course of the witness 's employment as a servant of the Crown was not of itself sufficient to bring the case within the exclusion , ( iii ) the fact that the witness was now retired from his position was relevant to the question whether the exclusion in section 9(4) applied , ( iv ) if some other interpretation were possible , it would be unacceptable to approach section 9(4) as requiring the court to refuse to make the order that a witness who was competent and compellable within the United Kingdom should give evidence for foreign proceedings , ( v ) there was nothing in the material sought to be given in evidence which it could have been the policy or intention of the Act to have prevented being explored ; ( 3 ) the deputy judge had erred in law in approaching the question of capacity by concentrating on the position of the witness at the time that the evidence was to be given as opposed to the position of the witness at the time that he acquired the information which was the subject matter of the evidence and the nature content and source of such evidence ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly ignored the fact that the Crown as a party to the Hague Convention was in a position to give effect to it and to provide evidence to foreign courts in accordance with it without recourse to the court ; and ( 5 ) the judge had wrongly approached section 9(4) on the footing that it most likely addressed prejudice to the sovereignty of the state . |
| 25 | They included a sweeping revision of the Internal Security Act so as to end detention without trial , as provided for in the " Pretoria Minute " agreement between the government and the ANC in August 1990 [ see p. 37642 ] ; a proposal to offer Cabinet seats to blacks during a transitional period while a new constitution was being negotiated ; the appointment of a neutral chairman of the constitutional conference ; and the appointment of an independent judge or jurist to investigate incidents of violence . |
| 26 | 2.15 Section 3 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 amended the 1976 Act so as to insert a new s1A , which provides that an action under the Act may consist of or include a claim for damages for bereavement in the case of causes of action accruing after 1 January 1983 . |
| 27 | The Beeb can reasonably ask the government to recognise these latent contradictions , and to get its ideological act together before it unveils ( in a paper scheduled for the summer ) its own proposals for the corporation 's future . |
| 28 | WIGAN boss John Monie has warned British rugby league : ‘ Get your act together or you 'll never be world champions . ’ |
| 29 | This is not a plea for historical recorders to get their act together and check facts first-hand — I think the forces of establishment and vested interest are too strong for that to work , and anyway it would n't solve all the problems . |
| 30 | WC apps : 9 Winners : 1930 , 1950 If they really have got their act together and manage to cut out the cynical stuff , Uruguay could achieve much more this time . |