Example sentences of "of [art] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justin , who would appear to have lost some of his old charisma , became the straight man of the act — always mending things . |
| 2 | The form continues , listing other sections of the Act . |
| 3 | A young lad had called out , ‘ See what the beasts think of the Act ! ’ |
| 4 | He scanned it — it was little more than a text of the Act . |
| 5 | If they managed to exact a sworn and written abrogation of the Act from every single proprietor in the strath ( and over into Tummel and down past Dunkeld ) , at least they would have built a paper wall round themselves . |
| 6 | As Cameron opened with his usual explanation of the Act , he did not know that the Reverend William McIvor , a tall whiskery man with coarse orange hair and very pale blue eyes , had stayed outside his manse , in the cover of a thick yew tree , and was listening hard with a hand cupped round his ear . |
| 7 | There is no way that the content of my thought can both be something that the subject really thinks , apprehends or is conscious of , and yet fall outside the scope of an analysis of the act of thinking . |
| 8 | Regulations giving the detail of both the exemptions and the controls have not yet been finalised , so the relevant parts of the Act are not effective . |
| 9 | Legal precedents have established that the Secretary of State 's duty under Section 3 of the Act is qualified by an understanding that he should do so ‘ within the resources available … ’ . |
| 10 | Are they to be sharply accented upwards with a hold on the downwards accent as they are in Ashton 's version of the Act III pas de quatre in Swan Lake ? |
| 11 | The recording is generally good , though the orchestra sounds curiously recessed in the concluding pages of the Act I finale . |
| 12 | In an urgent ruling yesterday , the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ordered the government immediately to repeal specific clauses of the act which relate to the Spanish presence , on the grounds that they illegally discriminate against foreigners . |
| 13 | The effect of the act , which came into force in April this year , was to exclude almost 100 boats operated by Spanish owners , mostly in waters off the south-west coast of Britain . |
| 14 | The court was considering only a limited application by the European Commission for the suspension of parts of the act considered to be most at odds with EC non-discrimination laws . |
| 15 | After a hearing in 1976 , the Chief Commons Commissioner found that the road verges were part of the highway , and so did not fall within the definition of ‘ common land ’ in section 22(1) of the Act . |
| 16 | Now , under pressure from the ITV companies , the Independent Broadcasting Authority has relaxed its interpretation of the Act . |
| 17 | One of the original sponsors of the act , Senator Phil Gramm of Texas , a Democrat turned Republican , will sponsor legislation later this month to extend the deadline for a balanced budget until the end of the century . |
| 18 | If all this self-doubt is part of the act , it 's a brilliant performance . |
| 19 | That does n't mean the manager should n't take a considerable share of the act 's income at the beginning . |
| 20 | The existence of the Act would be a clear violation of the third protocol ( not ratified by the UK ) to the European Convention on human rights , which provides in article 3 that no one shall be deprived of the right to enter the territory of which he is a national . |
| 21 | This undoubtedly prevents Britain ratifying the protocol ; in addition the operation of the Act would appear to infringe certain articles of the existing European Convention … |
| 22 | But the rest of the act lacks this savagery and Posner should surely have aimed for more laughs earlier — at present the audience only relaxes , by the usual process of familiarity , around the half way mark . |
| 23 | But Judge Wroath told the jury yesterday : ‘ I am satisfied the prosecution have not in this case produced evidence and as a matter of law have not proved the case to the requirements of the Act . ’ |
| 24 | Although the intention was that the allowable dolphin kill be gradually reduced each year to zero , since the introduction of the Act 800,000 dolphins have been killed by US purse seiners alone . |
| 25 | Despite the vehement opposition to the passage of the Act by the tuna industry , steady progress was being made for a while by the US tuna fleet to reduce dolphin kills , until the election of ex-Californian governor Ronald Reagan as US President . |
| 26 | In 1981 , an amendment by the US Congress permitted an annual US kill of 20,500 dolphins in tuna nets , completely overturning the original intention of the Act . |
| 27 | This substantially overturned the original interpretation of the Act and placed the ‘ rights ’ of fishermen to kill dolphins above the rights of marine mammals not to be harassed and destroyed . |
| 28 | Section 22 of the Act provided for the establishment of marine mammal sanctuaries . |
| 29 | On April 16th Lord Kimball asked for a clarification of the act . |
| 30 | The 25th section of the Act of 1873 dealt specially with a number of points in which there was a difference between Law and Equity , of which the following may here be mentioned : |