Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] laws [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporaries differed in their view of the overall effect of the Settlement Laws on the mobility of the labouring poor . |
| 2 | All the oligopoly models just discussed are examples of non-co-operative games , and in the light of the antitrust laws in most advanced industrial countries this would seem to be appropriate . |
| 3 | Even after the reform of the divorce laws in 1857 , most working-class people were denied the possibility of easy divorce ; in the 1900s petitions for divorce from the working class were still extremely rare , largely because of the cost . |
| 4 | One Conservative MP was prepared to advocate temporary relaxation of the bastardy laws in order to ease the path of children of men fighting in the war . |
| 5 | The legislative measures corresponding to this change had been the Reform Act of 1832 and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 , which recognised that the price of bread could no longer be controlled in the interest of British grain producers . |
| 6 | The volume carried increased even more following the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 . |
| 7 | The repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 clearly had a great influence upon the increase in grain arrivals at Gloucester . |
| 8 | ( Chris Haskins , of Northern Foods , points out that Britain has not fed itself since the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 . ) |
| 9 | The new primacy of the urban interest was marked by the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 , which reduced grain and bread prices . |
| 10 | More important , the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 , following the triumph of Free Trade over Protection , reduced the price of grain with cheaper imports from North America , Russia , and later Australia ( Deane and Cole 1969 ) . |
| 11 | GRIEVING father Daniel Meinertzhagen demanded a tightening up of the licensing laws after yesterday 's inquest on his daughter . |
| 12 | Herbert ( H.C. , 1935 ) the Court refused to investigate an alleged breach of the licensing laws by the " Kitchen Committee " of the House of Commons . |
| 13 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 14 | It is significant that the insurgent peasants of Essex in 1381 demanded the abolition of the hunting privileges of the landowners , and made no mention of the Forest laws of the Crown . |
| 15 | [ G. E. Aylmer , The King 's Servants , 1961 and 1974 ; idem , ‘ Charles I 's Commission on Fees ’ , Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research , vol. xxxi , 1958 ; G. Hammersley , ‘ The Revival of the Forest Laws under Charles I ’ , History , vol. xlv , 1960 ; E. S. de Beer ( ed . ) , |
| 16 | Other witnesses , some of whom had themselves been imprisoned , spoke feelingly of the dread of the Combination Laws in the east Midlands and their use to cower the knitters into defeat , at a time when wages had sunk to 7s ( 35p ) a week . |
| 17 | In addition to the factors considered by the investigators in using the 1980 data , the role of the Marshallion Laws of Derived Demand will be investigated using the information on market structure , product price sensitive , labour cost ratios etc . |