Example sentences of "[vb past] to apply for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to apply for a credit card , but they refused me . |
| 2 | Undeterred by the Challenge 's ‘ toughest ever ’ billing , she immediately decided to apply for a place . |
| 3 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 4 | Having just had a row with the acerbic Redwood , Kelly decided to apply for the job as assistant to whoever the new paper appointed as their Belfast representative . |
| 5 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 6 | FIRMS have only a week left to apply for an enterprise initiative which pays half their consultancy fees . |
| 7 | Eventually , Maryport Council had to apply for a special nuclear waste disposal licence from the Department of the Environment so that it could legally dump the silt back in the sea again . |
| 8 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 9 | According to its prospectus , it intended to apply for an Act of Parliament empowering it to acquire all the land south of Downing Street , as far as Parliament Square , between St James 's Park and the river . |
| 10 | No further appeal was possible under Austrian law , but defence lawyers said that they wanted to apply for a retrial because of new expert evidence which cast doubt on their client 's conviction . |