Example sentences of "an act of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look upon it as an act of spite by Durham County Council ‘ You stopped our inner ring road scheme . |
| 2 | The Council fathers decisively rejected Protestant doctrines on central issues such as justification , the presence of Christ in the Eucharist and sacramental efficacy , and promulgated a series of decrees on purgatory , the veneration of relics , images and saints , and indulgences — almost , it seems , as an act of defiance to the reformers who had denied them . |
| 3 | The Liberals chartered the GTP specifically as an act of defiance to the Canadian Conservative party and its allies on the CPR . |
| 4 | At her son 's funeral she refused to cry in an act of defiance to the IRA . |
| 5 | Ignoring her own discomfort at hearing a grown woman use such childish titles , Loretta detected that Veronica 's last statement was not so much an act of defiance as a cry for help . |
| 6 | The child may retain his stools partly for the erotic pleasure of later letting go , but also as an act of defiance against the parents . |
| 7 | For Hobbes , legitimate authority derived only from an act of will by the person under an obligation . |
| 8 | The British State has never had a formal foundation in the aftermath of revolution or war , or as the result of an act of will by an enlightened despot . |
| 9 | Afterwards , when the boys had gone up to bed , he told Josh that Mabel 's death was an act of retribution on the part of Almighty God . ’ |
| 10 | It is further the case that a father who gets his 14-year-old daughter to perform an act of fellatio on him or to masturbate him is not criminally liable . |
| 11 | The penalty for an act of buggery against a boy was life imprisonment . |
| 12 | On 21 September 1982 the husband committed an act of bankruptcy by failing to comply with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice and on 20 December a bankruptcy petition was presented . |
| 13 | On 21 September 1982 Mr. Dennis committed an act of bankruptcy by failing to comply with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice . |
| 14 | Back in Argentina , Don Masson had been called in front of a hurriedly convened SFA meeting , where he changed his story , admitting that he had only said he had taken the drugs as an act of loyalty to his friend and roommate . |
| 15 | In another , linked , case , a Belfast man was charged with allowing a house to be used to commit an act of terrorism on May 17 . |
| 16 | Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary . |
| 17 | The large drain was cut following an Act of Enclosure in 1791 . |
| 18 | The fact remains , and will become more and more evident as the year goes by , that the deliberate under-funding of the Act was an act of incompetence by incompetent ministers . |
| 19 | It would , however , be a great mistake to dismiss the event as an act of folly without any serious consequences , for the proof of the existence of a serious candidate led to the definite rebirth of Bonapartism as a political force in France and it was this movement which was later to carry Louis-Napoleon to power . |
| 20 | Mr Ramaphosa said that the prisoners ' release should not be construed as an act of goodwill by Mr de Klerk , but as a reflection of the ‘ dismal ’ failure of ‘ the apartheid regime ’ to emasculate the will of the black majority . |
| 21 | Thus they completed their great work as an act of confession for the sins of the past . |
| 22 | Acceptance of an authority can be an act of identification with a group because it can be naturally regarded as expressing trust in the person or institution in authority and a willingness to share the fortunes of the group which are to a large extent determined by the authority . |
| 23 | It is an act of faith of most brain scientists , including , as must be obvious by now , this one , that an understanding of the brain will lead to an understanding of behaviour and of the processes that control and underpin behaviour , some of which are conscious and some unconscious , but which taken together correspond to the folk-psychological term ‘ mind ’ . |
| 24 | There is no continuous evolution towards it ; it requires , somewhere along the line , an act of faith on the part of management . |
| 25 | That it is here at all is an act of faith on the part of the Academy 's management , who were well aware of the political overtones the show carried in the States and has inevitably brought with it to London . |
| 26 | Critique is replaced by commentary , and by an act of faith in the capacity of consumers to do surprising and amazing things with what they daily receive . |
| 27 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 28 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 29 | The authorities now maintained that the bombing was an act of revenge for the April 1986 raid on Tripoli by US aircraft [ see pp. 34454-59 ] and that available evidence indicated sole Libyan responsibility . |
| 30 | The Government 's prime motivation is to carry out an act of revenge on coal miners and coal mining communities . |