Example sentences of "act of [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view these characteristics serve only to require the court to be more than ever cautious before concluding that Parliament really intended to exclude one of the immunities which I have listed ; and as I have suggested , the words of the Act of 1987 admit of no doubt . |
| 2 | The Act of 1986 built on the foundations of the typical debenture by providing in Part III for administrative receivers and in Part II machinery for the making of administration orders intended to be used as a statutory alternative to an administrative receiver by filling |
| 3 | The relevant question is therefore : is there any indication in the subject matter and statutory purpose of the provisions concerning administrative receivers generally , or in the Act of 1986 considered as a whole , from which it appears that Parliament intended that the word ‘ company ’ in the context of section 29(2) ( a ) of that Act should not be confined to its prima facie meaning of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts , but should also embrace unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V of the Act of 1986 ? |
| 4 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 5 | He was elected lord mayor in 1779 , and was thus in office during the Gordon riots of 1780 , when a campaign by Lord George Gordon [ q.v. ] for the repeal of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 led to a week of mob rule . |
| 6 | Treaty could apply to the grant of a flag , it submitted that the provisions of the Common Fisheries Policy and in particular the quota system constituted a derogation from those articles and that the Act of 1988 fell within the scope of that derogation . |
| 7 | Section 26 of the Act of 1988 imposed on the governors an obligation to admit a number of applicants being not less than the relevant standard number . |
| 8 | Lastly , the power vested in the Secretary of State under section 14(4) of the Act of 1988 to dispense with the nationality requirement in the case of one ( or more ) individuals in view of the length of time he has ( or they have ) resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry there , is not such as to make the nationality requirements compatible with the E.E.C . |
| 9 | Lastly , the applicants in the main proceedings pointed out that the conditions imposed by the Act of 1988 attached to the registration of fishing vessels rather than to the issue of licences to fish for quota stock . |
| 10 | Section 13 of the Act of 1988 provided for the establishment of a new register of all British fishing vessels including those registered in the old register maintained under the Act of 1894 . |
| 11 | The Act of 1988 provided for the establishment of a new register in which thereafter all British fishing vessels were to be registered , including those which were already registered in the old general register maintained under the Act of 1894 . |
| 12 | The Railways Act of 1921 called for the establishment of four groups in Britain . |
| 13 | Similarly , the New Towns Act of 1946 provided for the setting up of Development |
| 14 | This curious reversal of roles may have owed something to the agreement of the Liberals to support a government without a clear majority ; the legislation was the Housing ( Homeless Persons ) Act of 1977 promoted by a Liberal , Stephen Ross . |