Example sentences of "[verb] apply to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of Yorkshire farmers has applied to the UK Trading Standards Office for approval to use the British Standard ‘ kite mark ’ as an endorsement of the quality of their beef . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the largest indoor oceanarium in the world , the John G Shedd in Chicago , which is keen to begin captive breeding of belugas , has applied to the American authorities for an import licence for Brightness . |
| 3 | The same pattern has applied to the print media . |
| 4 | And promoter Mickey Duff has applied to the IBF and WBA to have the fight recognised as a world title eliminator . |
| 5 | Phonelink Plc has applied to the London Stock Exchange for trading of its shares on the Unlisted Securities Market ( CI No 2,166 ) and will use the £9.9m raised to fund research and development , increase its visibility on the market , and ensure it has the financial clout to sit alongside its partners on a equal footing . |
| 6 | Snell has suggested that this sense of right was sufficiently marked to make expectations from the Poor Law part of the " moral economy " which Edward Thompson has applied to the poor 's expectation that corn would be sold to them at " just " prices . |
| 7 | She has applied to the Barbican and Wembley Conference Centre in the hopes of obtaining work experience in her chosen career before starting the course of training . |
| 8 | JOHN Dee Skip Hire , of Albert Road , Darlington , has applied to the borough council for permission to move to the Cleveland Industrial Estate . |
| 9 | Robert Aaron , of Low Coniscliffe , has applied to the council for permission to set up a portable building in his garden for village events . |
| 10 | The Northern Rock Building Society , Darlington , has applied to the borough council for permission to alter ground floor windows at its High Row office . |
| 11 | York Theatre Royal has applied to the city council to install a lift to aid access by the disabled . |
| 12 | The agency has applied to the Scottish Office for permission to erect a barrier across the mouth of the dock which is used by local fishermen to unload their catches and berth their boats . |
| 13 | The House of Lords upheld the award , ruling that the writers ' intention was immaterial ; what mattered was whether reasonable readers would think that the words used applied to the plaintiff . |
| 14 | Major 's proposals , based on a paper presented in May by the British Invisible Exports Council , were designed to apply to the medium-term future , after completion of Stage 1 of the Delors plan . |
| 15 | After the rejection of those complaints , he has decided to apply to the European Commission alleging breaches of privacy under article 8 of the human rights convention . |
| 16 | The old adage ‘ The mind is willing but the flesh is weak , ’ could be said to apply to the M.C.R. and its attitude towards sport . |
| 17 | The unspoken assumption here , as so often elsewhere , was that crowds would impair enjoyment — a typically individualistic assumption which it is taken for granted applies to the entire population . |
| 18 | German philosophy in the first half of the nineteenth century was dominated by the influence of George Friedrich Hegel , especially his concept of ‘ the dialectic ’ — a special kind of logic which he believed applies to the development of thought , human institutions , and social history . |
| 19 | When Fifa , the international federation of football associations , began to enthusiastically embrace professionalism , blissfully unaware of the social coding that England sought to apply to the game , the FA leaders retreated behind their entrenched ideas of what football represented . |
| 20 | If these proportions were to continue to apply to the projected household population , the proportion of owner-occupier households would fall from 58 per cent in 1981 to 55 per cent in 2001 ( including allowance for difference in concepts of married male heads and married couple households ) . |
| 21 | Although this principle was intended to apply to the Nazi-occupied territories of Europe , nationalists throughout the colonial world , particularly in India and Burma , demanded its application to all dependent peoples . |
| 22 | The Estonian parliament , influenced by these concerns , adopted a constitutional amendment on 16 November providing for the right of veto over all legislation that was intended to apply to the USSR as a whole . |
| 23 | Apart from authority , it seems to me plain enough that s. 2 was intended to apply to the agreement which created the option and not to the notice by which it was exercised . |
| 24 | In attempting to influence political developments in Poland , the West was reduced to using precisely those instruments that the Bonn government ( and Social Democratic opposition ) is now belatedly attempting to apply to the GDR : first , a symbolic politics recognising the Church and opposition as partners no less important than the communist authorities who claim to be , but are not , identical with ‘ the state ’ and , second , the conditional offer of economic help ( politely called ‘ co-operation ’ ) as a goad to political change — neither pure ‘ carrot ’ nor simple ‘ stick ’ , but a carrot-cum-stick . |
| 25 | Of course , this can only be verified by a complete inventory , but the important point is that the sampling methods used , and the way in which the results were extrapolated to apply to the whole collection , are based on a sound mathematical theory which is widely used and tested in other fields , and therefore carried sufficient weight to satisfy the Museum and its auditors . |
| 26 | Per Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. ( i ) In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or to cause irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance ( post , pp. 798G — 799A , H ) . |
| 27 | In cases of doubt as to the effect of a purported refusal of treatment , where failure to treat threatens the patient 's life or threatens irreparable damage to his health , doctors and health authorities should not hesitate to apply to the courts for assistance . |
| 28 | Though there is no appeal procedure laid down if the chairman of the meeting rejects a proxy duly lodged and therefore does not allow that creditor 's vote , it is open to the creditor affected to apply to the court for the chairman 's decision to be reversed and for a new meeting to be held . |
| 29 | We shall find that there is a very good general rule that , while adjectives may qualify verbs or verb phrases as well as nouns , the property which an adjective designates is understood to apply to the entity of that noun phrase with which it is in construction most directly ( but not necessarily immediately , as we see in Chapters 3 to 9 ) . |
| 30 | The main group of verbs which will both justify the singling out of some adjectival property of the entity behind the object phrase , and which , moreover , have a lexical value such that this adjectival property will be understood to apply to the object in some way especially relevant to the meaning of the verb are , as we have indicated , verbs which include the notion of a change of state . |