Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] laws [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it was impossible to envisage the use of nuclear weapons in any way consistent with the laws of war , and since great and apparently law-abiding Powers possessed and threatened to use them , they must be held to be simply beyond the scope of international law , |
| 2 | The interaction of a photon and a molecule , like other physical processes , is subject to the laws of conservation of energy , of linear momentum and of angular momentum . |
| 3 | For each locality the records of first resort remain the early county histories , the relevant volumes in the Victoria County History series , and the proceedings of the county , or similar , historical or record society ; and no doubt local historians will wish to obtain some of these or , subject to the laws of copyright , obtain photocopies of selected sections . |
| 4 | Although the lie itself could not alter his nationality , it would be argued that he was now , for practical purposes , amenable to the laws of treason . |
| 5 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |
| 6 | However , it certainly does not mean that the use of nuclear weapons is perfectly legal under the laws of war as they have evolved in this century . |
| 7 | It does not seem to us to be particularly fruitful to discuss highly generalised theories of whether international law is or could be ‘ law ’ as such : if viewed from the perspective of ‘ effectiveness ’ , international law may have to be judged differently , depending on whether , for example , the focus is on regional economic relations regulated by treaties , or on customary law applicable to the laws of war on a universal scale . |
| 8 | But in fact the dots are seen as lines due to the laws of proximity and similarity . |
| 9 | UN legal experts noted at the end of July , however , that Nicaragua 's electoral legislation was democratic and comparable with the laws in force elsewhere in Latin America . |
| 10 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 11 | Since there is no necessary chemical connection between the substances which bind to allosteric proteins , and the chemical reactions those proteins catalyse , it follows that the results of metabolism , although fully interpretable by the laws of chemistry , are not dictated by those laws , but by the physiological needs of the organism , and ultimately by natural selection . |
| 12 | The person using an expert system to advise a client will be potentially liable under the laws of contract and negligence . |