Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] act of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 2 | Less worried than Kennedy by the inevitable opposition of southern white politicians , Johnson plunged into the fray and pressed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the face of prolonged southern senatorial opposition . |
| 3 | Each of these three events involved the legal process or changes in the law , and as such inevitably make the censorship issue in libraries less localized than it used to be even after the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 . |
| 4 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
| 5 | It is whether we are prepared to destroy the tripartite system that has been developed in this country since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act of eighteen thirty five and the Local Government Act of eighteen eighty eight , for make no mistake about it Clause two of this Bill effectively destroys the careful balance that has been developed over more than a century between chief officers , local police authorities and the Home Secretary . |
| 6 | The subsequent research findings presented to Congress resulted in the Noise Control Act of 1972 ( later expanded into the Quiet Communities Act of 1978 ) which required the EPA to set standards of tolerable noise levels for all types of new equipment and machinery . |
| 7 | The Well of Loneliness , a courageous and serious novel about lesbianism , was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , condemned as an obscene libel , and was not republished in Britain until 1949 . |
| 8 | Under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919 the minister may set up a court of enquiry into a trade dispute . |
| 9 | In it alone , from the Reformation Parliament of 1529 to the European Communities Act of 1972 , the prescriptive and therefore undefined and unlimited authority of the monarch has been exercised through an equally unique representative institution . |
| 10 | Moreover , if there was maladministration it is of little consequence now in that the new regime established by the Financial Services Act of 1986 has rendered the DTI 's role in this matter redundant . |
| 11 | This reiterates the whole catch-all section 2 of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 , as well as the scale of punishments laid down by the Official Secrets Act of 1920 for those who |
| 12 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |