Example sentences of "[noun sg] [num] [prep] the official [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | She was not prosecuted ( though clearly she could have been ) under section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , possibly because the Government had just had its nose bloodied by a jury in the Clive Ponting trial , a case we deal with in Chapter 5 . |
| 3 | He established and chaired a Cabinet committee on reform of the discredited section 2 of the Official Secrets Act , 1911 . |
| 4 | Thus we have the reform of Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 . |
| 5 | Mr Clive Ponting 's acquittal by a jury in February 1985 , after he had admitted to passing official Government papers to a person not authorised to receive them , the very essence of section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , and despite the most explicit summing up by the trial judge that they should convict , raises the question of what motivated the jury . |
| 6 | In August 1984 , Mr Clive Ponting , a senior official at the Ministry of Defence , was charged with sending two documents to a Labour MP , Mr Tam Dalyell , without authority and thus contrary to Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 7 | Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 was discredited by the jury acquittal of the editor of the " Sunday Telegraph " for publishing a confidential army report about the Biafran war which indicated that ministerial statements in Parliament were false . |
| 8 | Six members of the Committee of One Hundred , who had planned to enter the air base and immobilize it by sitting in front of its planes , were charged with conspiracy to commit offences under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 . |
| 9 | Unlike in the early 1960s , section 1 of the Official Secrets Act was not employed against the protesters at any point during this period though clearly it could have been . |