Example sentences of "law [conj] it [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the right of journalists and broadcasters to demand trial by jury , in those areas of criminal law where it still exists , is an important security against interference with media freedoms — for reasons explained in 1885 by Dicey , the leading writer on our unwritten constitution : " Freedom of discussion is , then , in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury , consisting of 12 shopkeepers , think it expedient should be said or written … |
| 2 | If so , natural law is again exposed as consistent with any possible content of positive law and it thereby loses its critical function . |
| 3 | However , a contract for the sale of unascertained goods can be frustrated at common law if it subsequently becomes impossible to perform because of an unexpected turn of events , as in Howell v. Coupland . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus the common law must still be considered in order to gain the broader perspective of the law as it currently stands . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He asked Office minister David Mellor whether he still wished or instructed local authorities to enforce the law as it now stands . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ; … |
| 9 | Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act . |