Example sentences of "[that] [art] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underlying the disquiet was a strong current of belief that the act of going tieless was tantamount to social chaos ! |
| 2 | Those who cherish the notion that the act of eating exists outside any context of cost , saving that recorded on the bill , will find The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover most indigestible . |
| 3 | When a jury is satisfied that the act was committed , but that at the time the accused was so insane as not to be legally responsible , it brings in a special verdict of ‘ not guilty by reason of insanity ’ , though the accused is then ordered to be detained during the ‘ Queen 's pleasure ’ . |
| 4 | And yet there remains the fact , noted at the outset , that the Act applies to violence and violent threats in private . |
| 5 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 6 | Trying to put myself in his skin in that room at that time must not , of course , be taken to mean that the act contemplated and later committed by Miller is something that I myself could think of doing . |
| 7 | In this paper we shall argue that the Act must be understood in terms of themes , issues , developments and conflicts that emerged in the 1970s , and worked themselves out in the 1980s . |
| 8 | In spite of these provisions , not infrequently Courts conveyed the view that the Act did not give them power to make orders with a condition of access . |
| 9 | Like section 25(1) of the 1944 Act , which has now been repealed , the ERA provides that the act of collective worship should be non-denominational . |
| 10 | ( Note that the Act also establishes a general rule that where the LEA and governors both have a say in the matter , and their decisions conflict , whichever leads to the earlier return of the pupil should prevail . ) |
| 11 | We witness the protagonists drawing their own parallels between their story and Homer , Byron 's ‘ Manfred ’ , Poe and thrillers , but in a way which suggests that the act of narrating is not separated from events . |
| 12 | Robert Carnwath feared that the Act was so confused that we could not go to court with a realistic chance of winning . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the police are left largely to themselves when it comes to making sure that the Act is actually followed . |
| 14 | To the extent that the Home Secretary suggested that the Act did not involve any extension of the Government 's powers , this could be only because in practice the guidelines were being exceeded for , as has been pointed out subsequently , the phrase ‘ national security ’ is not confined to major subversion or espionage ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Secondly , and most remarkably in view of Birkett and the 1980 White Paper , the phrase was appropriate ‘ because it properly reflects the way in which interception has been authorised by successive governments of the Left and Right ’ , and it emphasizes the important point that the Act provides for no extension of existing practices . |
| 16 | It is to be noted further that the Act , no doubt inadvertently , facilitates such behaviour by providing that the Tribunal shall give reasons for its decisions only to the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | It depends in part on how one perceives the function that the Act serves , and it probably serves several . |
| 18 | Like them , she knew that the act of shaping — a line , an emphasis , a pattern — brings a measure of power and control , and , like them , told her story in her own way or not at all . |
| 19 | We suggest that the act of baptizing the child is viewed with superstition as much as religious belief ; that it is ‘ better ’ for the child to be baptized in case anything happens to it . |
| 20 | All of this creates genuine difficulties for schools , not lessened by the fact that curriculum and timetable changes ( and all the other changes that the Act demands ) have to be resourced within the limitations of a formula-funded school budget and an LEA budget effectively determined ( because of the way the community tax will work ) by central government . |
| 21 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 22 | The therapist encouraged them to consider the possibility that the act might be understood in terms of both these motives and that this highlighted the need for improved communication between them . |
| 23 | This is despite their repeated claims that the act , which tightens up rules on the safety inspection of large dams and calls for a national register of dams , was necessary . |
| 24 | Dr Noyan and his colleagues believe that the act of stretching coordinates the spontaneous movements of the smooth muscle of the lymph node , a process they call frequency stabilisation . |
| 25 | Of the £50 million that the act set aside , by the middle of last year the government had allocated only about £10 million . |
| 26 | Formerly , intent had to be proved by the prosecution , but after 1870 , claimed Wetherfield , it would be implied and ‘ thus the onus is thrown upon the debtor of proving that the act done by him , though suspicious , was committed with an innocent intent . ’ |
| 27 | By 1987 Wilmink was able to conclude that the Act ‘ has had a stimulating effect on the development of plans for the construction of bicycle tracks ’ and that ‘ attention to bicycle facilities in all stages of planning , design and maintenance of the infrastructure has become common practice . ’ |
| 28 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act of 1919 paved the way for changes in women 's employment rights , but the weakness of the Women 's Movement in that period meant that the Act remained a dead letter . |
| 29 | He told Theo that the act of drawing enabled him to see things differently . |
| 30 | This means that the ACT will remain unrelieved , effectively representing a cost of paying the dividend . |