Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] apply to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law of diminishing returns has not applied to food production in the countries which have undergone the industrial revolution , although there have been periodic crises , such as the Irish famine of 1845–6 , to remind us that Malthus was not completely wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ In the past , TUPE has not applied to MoD contracts , but now , following various European legal decisions , it is highly likely that in future it will . |
| 3 | EEB members believe that subsidiarity ( the principle that action should be devolved to the lowest competent level of government ) has always applied to the EC 's environmental policies , which are among the most popular achievements of the Community . |
| 4 | In order to make this facility useful , it is recommended that an organisation-wide policy be adopted ; e.g. ‘ Errors reported always apply to the module which first detects the error , not the reporting module ’ . |
| 5 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 6 | The arguments we are using above apply to amorphous unoriented polymers . ) |
| 7 | PIX-B relates to PCX SuperShow and the same comment made above applies to this one . |
| 8 | These are individual pension plans arranged by an employer for the benefit of some or all executives above a certain grade , In some companies , executive pension plans only apply to directors ; in others , they may also include senior and middle management . |
| 9 | ‘ In that case , would n't you do better to apply to another wharf ? ’ |
| 10 | The 1954 Act now applies to any tenancy of licensed premises granted after 11 July 1989 . |
| 11 | It will be evident that these are greatly influenced by Roman Catholic religious congregations , and some of what is said here applies to monks and nuns of both Communions . |
| 12 | Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) . |
| 13 | Elean : I presume the sexist laws you have been describing also apply to white women in South Africa . |
| 14 | Too shy ( and now , he smiled at the word shy ever applying to him ) to approach her directly in the way that he usually did with women he found attractive . |
| 15 | Though not wishing to detract from Campling 's writing , I wish to point out that many of the reactions , feelings , and transferences that she mentions also apply to those who were not sexually abused but ‘ only ’ emotionally abused . |
| 16 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 17 | Article 16 is expressly declared not to apply to judgments concerning status or capacity of persons , fields in which certainty is essential . |
| 18 | The territorial waters claim also applied to the disputed Tungsha ( Pratas ) and Nansha ( Spratly ) Islands in the South China Sea and the Tiaoyutai Islands north-east of Taiwan . |
| 19 | Talks on a merger between the polytechnics ' and the universities ' admissions systems now seem to be in trouble , and many students will be left unsure how to go about applying to the new universities . |
| 20 | Although the authorities declared that the customs ban only applied to large consignments of books , which had to be sent via the Ministry of Culture in Bucharest , Hungary was still complaining in June that the Romanian post office was failing to deliver Hungarian-language publications to subscribers , who were forced to form their own distribution networks . |
| 21 | Ages specified below apply to the child/infants age on the date of return travel . |
| 22 | The requirement of standing only applies to actions in respect of public law wrongs . |
| 23 | But the footnote did not apply to other European countries . |
| 24 | Accordingly , article 119 did not apply to the Employment Secretary 's liability to make section 106 payments , and an employee who had become entitled to a state pension and was then dismissed for redundancy was not entitled to a payment from the Employment Secretary under section 106 . |
| 25 | The difficulty is that its traditional features — communal tenure , a three-field system , and growing land pressure — have often served as all-Russian criteria , but they did not apply to the West . |
| 26 | The proclamation of NEP did not apply to the Ukraine , where the punitive requisitioning methods of War Communism were officially extended until the autumn of 1921 . |
| 27 | At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies . |
| 28 | If primitive societies were classless , this whole process could obviously not take place , and so the theory of social change did not apply to them . |
| 29 | How far Marx and Engels were wedded to the idea is not clear and Engels did note that this sequence did not apply to the New World . |
| 30 | You have to bear in mind that the occupation did not apply to Slovakia . |