Example sentences of "[verb] [art] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's a theory that anyone who has witnessed the act depicted here is incurable , ’ said Lydia . |
| 2 | However , a party can not evade the Act by a choice of law clause providing for the contract to be governed by the law of some state other than the UK . |
| 3 | Other commentators depicted the Act less flatteringly as yet another example of ‘ dustbin legislation ’ . |
| 4 | Although the imputation system of corporation tax means that there is usually only a marginal difference in the tax cost of the two funding methods ( if the payer can absorb the ACT against sufficient mainstream corporation tax payable ) , this is usually in favour of the payment of deductible interest ; and |
| 5 | For a new artist to progress , the most important management role is allowing the act to develop its songwriting potential . |
| 6 | Lord Reid said that the courts must carry out this task by construing the Act as a whole . |
| 7 | At the start of the further hearing , the Attorney-General , who appeared for the Crown , drew our attention to a letter addressed to him by the Clerk of the House of Commons suggesting that any reference to Hansard for the purpose of construing the Act might breach the privileges of that House . |
| 8 | In construing the Act without reference to the Parliamentary proceedings , he treats it as decisive that in this case the taxpayers ' children were only occupying surplus accommodation and that it lay in the discretion of the school whether to grant such benefit to the taxpayers . |
| 9 | In 1700 Parliament passed the Act of Settlement , laying down that if Anne died without any surviving children , as now seemed highly likely , the throne should pass to her nearest Protestant relative . |
| 10 | Finally , faced with the Commission 's persistent failure to take any action and the damage inflicted on the British fishing industry in 1986 , 1987 and 1988 by vessels owned by Spanish interests , the United Kingdom passed the Act of 1988 . |
| 11 | One practical reason for the literal rule is that judges are now deeply afraid of being accused of making political judgments at variance with the purpose of Parliament when it passed the Act . |
| 12 | Individual firms avoid having to register as financial advisers under the act by providing advice through a ‘ permitted third party ’ who fulfils the act 's requirements . |
| 13 | The United Kingdom argued that there was nothing in the manner of its introduction , or in the fact that it affected the Anglo-Spanish vessels , that made the Act of 1988 incompatible with Community law . |
| 14 | The rebellion was easily crushed , and immediately afterwards Congress approved legislation which made the act of rebellion punishable with life imprisonment [ see p. 37781 ] . |
| 15 | The duty of the court is to enforce the Acts and in so doing to observe one principle which is inherent in the Acts and has been long recognised , the principle that parties can not contract out of the Acts … |
| 16 | ‘ Twentieth-century art glamorizes the act of flying apart , ’ the poet on television continued . |
| 17 | If a company pays a dividend during a ‘ dormant ’ period — ie when it is not within the charge to corporation tax — the Inland Revenue has been known to argue that the company will not be able to carry the ACT back against its prior tax liabilities . |
| 18 | In her mind she associates the act of translation with transubstantiation through a chain of associations ( see 13/407,20/414,112/506,139/533,164/558 ) , and the lapse in her relations with God corresponds to similar ‘ flaws ’ in her use of language . |
| 19 | It later became the Act 3 finale of La Boheme . |
| 20 | This may well make the act of intercourse uncomfortable and batter and bruise the external genitalia and the opening of the urethra . |
| 21 | I have to like the act and their music . |
| 22 | Pre-dating the Act , and in some respects in contradiction to the aims of the national curriculum that forms the core of the legislation , were the government 's attempts to improve the structure and quality of vocational and technological education . |
| 23 | The Labour Department did its best with the resources available to implement the Act . |
| 24 | Between 1980 and 1982 twenty-seven councils were said by the Secretary of State to be either failing to implement the Act or employing tactics of delay . |
| 25 | Sheffield City Council simply refused to implement the Act and employed two officers to persuade tenants to withdraw applications to purchase . |
| 26 | A constable need not be in uniform when he effects the arrest ( and calls for the defendant to desist as a preliminary ) , although if an off-duty policeman does attempt to implement the Act , strict conditions should be observed as to what he must do and say to make it plain that he is a constable . |
| 27 | Whilst most commentators are agreed that the Children Act 1989 is in the main a good Act , all of them , all of them Councillor are critical of the fact that the Government has not properly provided Local Authorities with sufficient resources to implement the Act . |
| 28 | The returns of these commissions , together with subsequent proceedings throughout the cardinal 's chancellorship against those who had broken the Act , provide much of the evidence on the whole process . |
| 29 | The Nonconformists , however , fought the Act bitterly . |
| 30 | But they hate the Act so bitterly , not everybody will hold back their hands forever . |