Example sentences of "under the [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed . |
| 2 | Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr ( Subject of a celebrated prosecution in 1967 under the Obscene Publications Act ) , LAST EXIT is a tough , often harrowing film about life in a rough working class district of New York during the Korean War . |
| 3 | Intentionally or not he seems to suggest , as Lord Caithness also did at the Committee stage in the House of Commons , that the homosexual literature should pass the test of artistic and literary merit — characteristics which are necessary as a defence against a charge of obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act 1959 . |
| 4 | In 1989 a Private Member 's Bill attempted to bring television under the Obscene Publications Act , while widening the legal definition of obscenity . |
| 5 | Also in the list and discussed below are : Alex Comfort and Dr Martin Cole in the area of sex education , John Calder the publisher , John Trevelyan the erstwhile film censor , Roy Jenkins , Labour Home Secretary in the 1960s , as well as John Mortimer , the barrister , novelist and playwright , and what Mrs Whitehouse referred to as his ‘ travelling circus of expert witnesses ’ who were regularly in court to defend publications charged under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 6 | The Well of Loneliness , a courageous and serious novel about lesbianism , was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , condemned as an obscene libel , and was not republished in Britain until 1949 . |
| 7 | Before then the office came alive with two pieces of news : Sniffy Wilson had been captured and Marilyn Duxbody had been charged under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 8 | The investigation was carried out under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 9 | THE Crown Prosecution Service in London has given the authority for a case involving a number of articles seized under the Obscene Publications Act to proceed . |
| 10 | Under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 , tenants of agricultural land , and under the Landlord and Tenant Acts 1927 and 1954 , other lessees , are entitled to claim compensation from their landlords for many improvements made by them , and also , in some cases , compensation for the disturbance by reason of notices to quit . |
| 11 | Under the 1964 Judges Rules , questioning was permitted during this period and many cases were disposed of following confessions or damaging admissions by suspects after arrest . |
| 12 | In the aftermath of the April 1981 riots in Brixton the Home Secretary , William Whitelaw , used his powers under the 1964 Police Act to appoint Lord Scarman to inquire into the events , produce a report , and make recommendations . |
| 13 | The very fact that the process about which expectations are being formed has altered should , under the rational expectations model , alter the response of consumption to . |
| 14 | Of those who left — well over half a million people — scarcely any had disinherited themselves by claiming compensation under the Israeli Absentees Property Compensation Law of 1973 . |
| 15 | Applicants should apply through UCAS under the appropriate honours degree code number . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Mel Levine , a United States Congressman , is introducing a Bill in Washington today which will put trading in 24 types of anabolic steroids , used to enhance muscle growth , under the Controlled Substances Act . |
| 17 | The Department of Education has , so far , approved 15 proposals for integrated status made under the integrated schools provisions of the Education Reform ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1989 . |
| 18 | The Government has also announced that the deadline for cereal farmers to submit claims for repayment of cereals co-responsibility levy under the Small Cereals Producer Scheme and the two schemes open to participants in five year set-aside is to be extended until November 18 . |
| 19 | Previously a small claim , under the small claims procedure , was up to a maximum of £500 . |
| 20 | Under the Dangerous Dogs Act , all pit bulls must be registered , neutered , and have an identification number tattooed on their inner rear thigh and a microchip identifier inserted into the scruff of their neck . |
| 21 | Just 90 Pit Bulls have been registered under the Dangerous Dogs Act , introduced in 1991 following public outrage against attacks on children and adults on the mainland . |
| 22 | Senior inspector Francis Fox said that there were an estimated 900 pit bulls in the province that had not been registered under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 . |
| 23 | War disablement pensions remain payable to those disabled during the wars , and they carry a range of additional allowances similar to those under the industrial injuries scheme . |
| 24 | Under the Industrial Courts Act of 1919 the minister may set up a court of enquiry into a trade dispute . |
| 25 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State exercised his powers to apply to the NIRC under the Industrial Relations Act 1971 for an order requiring a ballot of trade union members to be held . |
| 27 | Under the Industrial Relations Code of Practice , paragraph 62 , a contract can reasonably be expected to give information about : |
| 28 | Pursuant to an order made under the Allied Forces Act 1940 he was arrested by the Metropolitan Police . |
| 29 | The cause or matter in question was the application to the court to exercise its powers under the Allied Forces Act and the order , and to deliver the appellant to the Dutch military authorities . |
| 30 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |