Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the start of the month , the ACT Financial Systems Ltd arm of ACT Group Plc , and IPC Information Systems Ltd , both London-based , have been working together to improve communications in the dealing room : first fruit of this non-exclusive agreement is a link between ACT 's Citydesk database and IPC 's Tradenet MX digital dealerboard ; when a dealer dials a direct line telephone number using his Tradenet dealerboard , the RS 232 output port on the board simultaneously sends a signal to the Citydesk database ; a special program searches the database for information on the client being contacted , and immediately posts it up on the Citydesk screen ; so , the dealer does not have to waste time doing a manual search ; this service is available now , but will be sold mainly as an added extra to existing customers , or via the direct sales teams of both parties ; pricing depends on the size of installation , and the complexity of database search levels required ; future developments include bi-directional communications — the Citymax database could send a message to a dealer if something significant happened on the market . |
| 2 | Harms which are the consequence of most traditional crimes are normally immediate and noticeable , and establishing a direct link between act and consequences is a relatively simple matter which facilitates enforcement . |
| 3 | Field men know that pollution does not crop up at random and one of the arts of enforcement is to be in the right place at the right time — or at least to know where to look , for a particular problem in this form of enforcement is to forge a link between act or event and offender . |
| 4 | In response to this decision Parliament hastily passed the War Damage Act 1965 with retrospective effect to deny entitlement to compensation for damage for acts lawfully done by the Crown during a war in which the Sovereign was engaged . |
| 5 | They included the delivering up of the two named individuals for trial , recognition of responsibility for acts , willingness to pay compensation , the disclosure of information relating to the IRA and renunciation of terrorism . |
| 6 | Rule No 11 Responsibility for Acts and Omissions of Others |
| 7 | On March 27 , 1990 , a military court sentenced to death three members of Dev Sol for acts of " political violence " . |
| 8 | Of more direct relevance to the thesis of this paper is the association of acts of violence and aggression , both material and mystical , with forces external to the society . |
| 9 | : As a result of Act 1414/1984 , as construed in the light of Directive 76/207 , that is , in conformity with the wording and the spirit and purpose thereof , the employer is not allowed when announcing a public open competition for the hiring of personnel , to infringe the principle of sex equality with respect to either the means for attracting candidates or the criteria of their assessment . |
| 10 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 11 | The argument that a small number of innocent people may be wrongly executed is far outweighed by the fact that thousands of innocent people are dying , being permanently maimed , or mentally scarred for life , as a result of acts of violence . |
| 12 | that a delegation of ACTS officers and Staff Council reps meet with Michael Taylor and Alastair Hanton to convey the anger and disappointment of their members and their willingness to continue further action if necessary in order to reverse the decision . |
| 13 | Heyward has a Christology ( one close to the primitive Christology of the second chapter of Acts for example ) . |
| 14 | That same eighth chapter of Acts records the spread of the gospel by informal missionaries , men and women evicted from Jerusalem by the persecution which followed Stephen 's death . |
| 15 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
| 16 | The favourite ‘ modest ’ solution is to remove the restriction on the offset of ACT against the corporation tax liability . |
| 17 | But this tended to defeat the object of consolidation , which was to supersede a jumble of Acts of various dates by a single statute . |
| 18 | The US secretary of state on 28 February gave the new trend in American thinking an acceptable public face when he underlined American support for the United Nations against acts of " aggression " . |
| 19 | Groups of winsome lads violate the faith of the believers with acts which are sufficient to shake the very roots of piety . |
| 20 | Although chiefly associated in the public mind with acts of individual and collective violence , the CNT was a complex phenomenon . |
| 21 | Medea 's aria with the children before the murder in Act 3 also promises a higher musical flight , only to fall into squareness . |
| 22 | Medea 's aria with the children before the murder in Act 3 also promises a higher musical flight , only to fall into squareness . |
| 23 | It is an extract from Act no. 18 of the parliament of 1848 and reads : ‘ Censorship having been abolished forever , freedom of the press re-established , each may freely convey and express his thoughts through the press . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If you look at Gonzalo 's words in Act 2 , Toby , you 'll see that it 's a magic island — and their clothes stay dry all the time . |
| 25 | The comedy in ‘ Hamlet ’ comes mainly from the scenes involving Hamlet 's mockery of the foolish Polonius ; and the gravediggers in Act V , Scene I. These scenes do indeed provide comic relief for the audience ; but they also show the way in which Hamlet vents his feelings ( Polonius ) and the fragility of life ( Gravediggers ) . |
| 26 | The Commission affirms the value of music for attracting potential believers to acts of worship and to the Church 's fellowship . |
| 27 | WEBER : Freischütz Overture and Entracte ; Invitation to the Dance ; MENDELSSOHN : Overture to A Midsummer Night 's Dream ; Hebrides Overture ; BERLIOZ : Rackoczy March ( Damnation of Faust ) ; WAGNER : Prelude to Act 1 ( Lohengrin ) ; Prelude and Liebestod ( Tristan und Isolde ) ; Funeral march ( Götterdämmerung ) ; BRAHMS : Hungarian Dances 1 & 10 ; J. STRAUSS II : Overture ( Die Fledermaus ) ; R. STRAUSS : Till Eulenspiegel |
| 28 | Businesses will enjoy some immediate concessions on ACT and business rates . |
| 29 | They emphasised that the data represented the successful application of labels to acts — on a highly selective basis , reflecting the kinds of people agents of control such as the police regard as likely suspects , or as being dangerous enough to warrant official action . |
| 30 | Counsel for the ‘ Seventeen Towns ’ , claimed by Finch to be within the forest bounds , produced in rebuttal the perambulations of 1298 and 1300 , and their confirmation by Act of Parliament in 1336 , urging also that these towns had been out of the forest by ‘ the long and constant Usage ever since . |