Example sentences of "[verb] by law " in BNC.
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| 1 | 21.1 In the event that any or any part of the terms , conditions or provisions contained in this Agreement shall be determined invalid , unlawful or unenforceable to any extent such term , condition or provision shall be severed from the remaining terms , conditions and provisions which shall continue to be valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law . |
| 2 | Managers are expected to keep their house open for all the hours permitted by law . |
| 3 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 4 | It is possible to point to landmarks — the moment of ‘ quickening ’ when the mother first feels foetal movements within her ; the moment when the foetus first has potential for independent life — deemed by law to be 24 weeks from gestation ; the moment when the baby has been fully expelled or removed from the mother 's body ; the moment when the baby takes its first breath , with the anatomical changes in circulation that accompany this , and subsequent changes as the baby develops after birth which any parent will recognise . |
| 5 | As mentioned , it was already forbidden by law to procure an abortion . |
| 6 | Bribes to officials are part of the culture of some areas of the world ( and therefore necessary to obtain business ) , yet US citizens are forbidden by law to offer bribes to officials of foreign governments , no matter where in the world the citizen happens to be at the time . |
| 7 | In India , dowry taking has long been forbidden by law but it persists strongly even in the cities . |
| 8 | Richard Baxter continued preaching in these churches for about a year until 1662 , when he was forbidden by law from any further public ministry . |
| 9 | This was forbidden by law after 1377 , when fulling mills were in general use . |
| 10 | Newspapers are forbidden by law to publish anything which might identify you . |
| 11 | They are concerned about those drugs that are forbidden by law . |
| 12 | In Egypt the Coptic church is forbidden by law to proselytise . |
| 13 | They were forbidden by law to return to within thirty kilometres of their estates , and their houses were turned into the offices of state farms , rest homes for party bosses or factory workers , schools , mad-houses , orphanages or just left to crumble . |
| 14 | No services were to be held in the church or chapels on certain forbidden former holy days ; nor was any concourse of idle people to attend church on those days , which included All Souls ( nor the evening or night before ) and those of Saints Catherine , Nicholas , George , Lawrence , Ann , and so on , including Thomas-a-Beckett , Mary Magdalene , the Conception , the Assumption , Wednesdays during the Easter or Whitsuntide weeks all being forbidden by law to be kept as holidays . |
| 15 | In England , parish registers providing dates of birth were instituted by law in 1538 . |
| 16 | This title might be especially applicable to the Protestant Church , because of its ‘ established ’ status , that is , as the church which is instituted by law and supported by the state , the government and the taxpayer . |
| 17 | Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits . |
| 18 | We do have cause for concern but it is not a problem which can be solved by law enforcement alone . |
| 19 | By contrast , television news is produced by only two networks ( each broadcasting on two channels ) which are constrained by law to offer remarkably similar products , however balanced , internally varied , and impartial those products might be . |
| 20 | Our actions on behalf of our clients and our duty to our clients and others are constrained by law , the common law and regulations set by quasi statutory bodies . |
| 21 | Children under ten in England and Wales are considered by law to be unaware of the consequences of their actions . |
| 22 | And although one or two other trials , in the 1890s for example , centred around birth control , at no time after 1877 was birth-control propaganda hindered by law . |
| 23 | The decision to publish will involve a calculation of many risks — it is only when the apparition of a successful legal action tips the balance against publishing a story of genuine public interest that " freedom of expression " has been meaningfully curtailed by law . |
| 24 | In the area of child care policy , juvenile crime is the prime example where figures based on actual offences overlook both the discretion applied by law enforcement agencies and the effects of detection efficiency . |
| 25 | Schools are prevented by law from charging for the curriculum , including charging pupils and their parents directly for school trips and visits , yet on the other hand schools are encouraged to generate as much revenue as they possibly can . |
| 26 | There are certain other reliefs , for example where the owner is prevented by law from occupying , but these are the main ones to bear in mind . |
| 27 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one |
| 28 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one . |
| 29 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one . |
| 30 | driven by anyone who you know is disqualified from driving or has not held a driving licence , or is prevented by law for holding one . |