Example sentences of "law as [pron] [adv] stand " in BNC.

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1 There are also rivers for which LAOs have not attempted to make agreements on the grounds that there are no problems or there is not sufficient demand , all very well until someone decides to apply the letter of the law as it presently stands .
2 Thus the common law must still be considered in order to gain the broader perspective of the law as it currently stands .
3 What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day .
4 He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands .
5 ‘ Community law as it now stands … does not preclude a member state , in authorising one of its vessels to fish against national quotas , from laying down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel has a real economic link with that state if that link concerns only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries ; …
6 Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act .
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