Example sentences of "that [art] [adj] [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Court of Justice has ruled that the 1950 Shops Act does not infringe the Treaty of Rome by restricting free trade , and is therefore legal . |
| 2 | It is important to appreciate that the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 only applies to a dwelling house which has been the matrimonial home ( s1(10) ) . |
| 3 | It was significant that the Official Secrets Act — the use of which would have been fatal to the publication — was not resorted to by the government . |
| 4 | Mrs Whitehouse suggests that having achieved what she argues they set out to do — show that the Sexual Offences Act covered all ‘ public ’ acts of gross indecency , including simulated acts in the theatre — it would have been oppressive to have continued a private prosecution against the director of the play . |
| 5 | In the light of the Committee 's hesitancy , it is not surprising that the Sexual Offences Act 1985 , which raised the penalty for indecent assault to ten years ' imprisonment , did not also divide the offence into two degrees . |
| 6 | In November of 1968 , he responded to the demands of Derry Catholics by proposing that the Londonderry City Corporation ( which since partition had been gerrymandered so that the Protestant minority retained control ) be replaced by a nominated body , that housing allocation be removed from political control to be administered on a fair ‘ points for needs ’ system , and that the Special Powers Act be re-examined . |
| 7 | It said that the Special Powers Act was preventing British standards of justice from prevailing in Northern Ireland , and went on : |