Example sentences of "apply for asylum " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived in England and applied for asylum . |
| 2 | From Germany , they travelled by train to Sweden , where he applied for asylum , the first American citizen to do so since the Vietnam War . |
| 3 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 4 | In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries . |
| 5 | It was her applying for asylum , not us inviting her . |
| 6 | Recently a 17-year old refugee arrived in England with her three-year-old sister and applied for asylum . |
| 7 | But half the ex-Yugoslavs who have come to Western Europe since the start of the Balkan fighting have not applied for asylum . |
| 8 | In the mid-1970s some 20,000 people a year had applied for asylum in Europe — in 1990 around 600,000 did so . |
| 9 | The fining of airlines plus the fact that the nationals of many refugee-producing countries now need visas to travel to this country , has made it extremely difficult for many people wishing to apply for asylum , to reach the UK . |
| 10 | They 'll be able to apply for asylum . |
| 11 | Even this can affect refugees adversely — their stories of torture may not be believed when they apply for asylum . |
| 12 | For example , why did more than 600 Angolans apply for asylum here in October alone ? |
| 13 | Of all organisations , it has an interest in ensuring that those who apply for asylum as a means of avoiding immigration regulations should not be allowed to enter the country . |