Example sentences of "make it [art] [adj] offence " in BNC.

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1 Their proposed bill would make it a criminal offence to plant surveillance devices on private property to gain personal information , and an offence to take long-distance photos of people on private property — such as those of the Duchess of York topless with her ‘ financial adviser ’ , John Bryan , last year .
2 My Lords , the code which first made it a criminal offence to drive a motor vehicle with an amount of alcohol in the body exceeding a fixed statutory limit ( introduced by the Road Safety Act 1967 and re-enacted in the consolidating Road Traffic Act 1972 ) was found in course of judicial construction to have been drafted in a way which afforded to many drunken drivers a variety of wholly unmeritorious avenues of escape from conviction .
3 The section , introduced last July — less than two weeks before the accident — made it a specific offence for a driver to cause death by careless driving and while over the drink-drive limit .
4 Changes in the Pakistan Penal Code introduced in recent years make it a criminal offence for Ahmadis to profess , practice and propagate their faith .
5 The general ground swell of opinion in Washington enabled the ‘ American Firsters ’ in Congress to force through the MacMahon Act in August 1946 , making it a criminal offence to divulge classified atomic information to any other country , including Britain .
6 In November 1965 the government of Southern Rhodesia declared unilateral independence and the United Kingdom passed legislation , the ‘ sanctions order , ’ making it a criminal offence to supply oil to Southern Rhodesia .
7 During the election campaign Gamsakhurdia 's opponents had concentrated on attacking what they claimed were his dictatorial tendencies ( a week before the election his ruling Round Table-Free Georgia coalition had sponsored legislation passed by the Georgian parliament making it a criminal offence , punishable by up to six years in prison , to insult the Georgian President ) .
8 Essentially , this is a consumer protection device making it a criminal offence to sell , by way of competitive bidding , prescribed articles listed in s3(2) : … any plate , plated articles , linen , china , glass , books , pictures , prints , furniture , jewellery , articles of household or personal use , or ornament or any musical or scientific instrument or apparatus .
9 They are suggesting that you put country sports with child abuse and drink driving , to make it a criminal offence .
10 It 's now proposing to make it a criminal offence to park a caravan on land without consent .
11 The National Association of the Self-employed and Small Businesses wants to make it a criminal offence to issue cheques that are returned unpaid because no funds are available in the drawer 's account .
12 The Wild Mammals ( Protection ) Bill seeks to make it a criminal offence to inflict cruelty on any wild animal and , in particular , to outlaw all hunting with dogs and the use of all snares .
13 In Kenya Harris Okong'o Arara continues to serve a five-year sentence imposed in 1988 under a law which makes it a criminal offence simply to possess literature critical of the government .
14 The bill makes it a criminal offence , punishable by a £1,000 fine , for a lender to try to force a mortgage applicant to use the lender 's own services .
15 What would be the relevance of section I(2) ( a ) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , which makes it a criminal offence for the person legally liable to maintain the child not to provide , inter alia , medical care ?
16 First , it makes it a criminal offence for anyone in the course of a business to display at a place where consumer deals are likely to be made ( e.g. at a shop or garage ) a notice of an exemption clause which is void by virtue of section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act .
17 It makes it a criminal offence for the advertiser to fail to make it clear that he is selling in the course of a business .
18 Section 1 makes it a criminal offence for any person acting in the course of trade or business to supply , or offer to supply goods to which a false trade description is applied .
19 It makes it a criminal offence to make a demand for payment without reasonable cause to believe there is a right to it .
20 The use of certain exclusion clauses is made a criminal offence : the Consumer Transactions ( Restriction on Statements ) Order ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) makes it a criminal offence to seek to exclude or limit liability for breach of the implied terms in contracts of sale where the buyer deals as a consumer a defined in the UCTA 1977 .
21 The Consumer Transactions ( Restrictions on Statements ) Order 1976 ( SI 1976 No 1813 ) makes it a criminal offence to display a notice or supply a document ( such as a set of standard terms ) containing a notice or term purporting to exclude liability for breach of the statutory implied terms and made ineffective by s6 of the UCTA 1977 .
22 The new section of the Road Traffic Act , 1988 , makes it a specific offence for drivers to cause death by careless driving and while under the influence of alcohol .
23 The Act makes it an absolute offence for a shopkeeper to sell cigarettes or any other tobacco product to young people .
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