Example sentences of "act [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the word ‘ provoked ’ does seem to require a human act rather than a natural event which leads D to lose self-control . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , one of these is sexual intercourse , where the trauma of the sex act rather than reinfection causes the recurrence . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | The contact becomes an act only if in some way or another it can be provided with a social meaning . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ If you are going to set up things for volunteers , you need to make sure that you 've got your act together because otherwise , if they just turn up and muddle along , they wo n't stay . |
| 14 | He needs to get his act together because if this continues then it will be Moat today and it 'll be other issues tomorrow and frankly the business of this council will grind to a halt . |
| 15 | Already we 're seeing sector the er , those er new independent colleges coming along and saying do you recognize , er G M B and er during the single union agreement with UNISON and we 've got ta get our act together cos the only with thing that 's going on , we 're seeing local authorities getting smashed up and we 're seeing UNISON which will be going right across the board . |
| 16 | ‘ Grimwood reports Newman did arrive and spoilt their act just as they 'd got Lennox to agree to sign . |
| 17 | Women who have valued the sex act just because of its potential to create a child may find that it no longer gives them pleasure . |
| 18 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 19 | The two-tier principle was strictly adhered to in the 1972 Act even when there seemed little justification for it in particular circumstances . |
| 20 | The precise form of the agreement is very significant : indeed , careful drafting can take an agreement outside the provisions of the Act even when the economic effects are identical to an agreement which is caught by the Act . |
| 21 | Most batsmen would agree , though , that Foster remains a class act even if 12 first-class wickets this season have cost 49 runs each . |
| 22 | No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh . |
| 23 | The purchaser would still expect , rightly , to be able to obtain a remedy from the seller under the Sale of Goods Act even though he has not obtained ownership of the copyright subsisting in the computer program . |
| 24 | Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . " |