Example sentences of "[was/were] apply [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canary yellow , no. 108 , ochre , No. 184 and brown ochre , No. 182 were applied for the golden glazes on the coffee pot , cup and saucer , with an ultimate highlight of white . |
| 2 | This was no better reflected than in his creation of A Distant Drummer with its horrific theme of man 's inhumanity to man , where ritual warlike movements were applied to the jack-booted soldiers of Nazi Germany . |
| 3 | The resources of many pharmaceutical firms were applied to the search for new moulds and other micro-organisms . |
| 4 | Configurational restraints based on those of Reinhart ( 1983 ) were applied to the set of candidates delivered by the preceding stage . |
| 5 | Similar principles were applied to the assessment of each case . |
| 6 | If these measures were applied to the country as a whole , it is conservatively estimated that a reduction of over 10,000 in jury accidents could be achieved every year . |
| 7 | Conservative philosophy has relied on competition to improve efficiency in other areas of the economy and the same principles were applied to the NHS . |
| 8 | These contrasted the Western models with the sorts of restrictions that could and were applied to the media in other political systems : the media were not free to publish , the expression of opinion was controlled , the Party/government could dictate the content of the media , and the essential freedoms associated with the Western models were obviously absent . |
| 9 | FIG. 3 Five conditions were applied to the tomato seedlings . |
| 10 | The deceased then became " he who has gone to his Ka " , which in Ptolemaic times were applied to the god and the king and which wee enumerated as strength , might , prosperity , food , veneration , eternity , radiance , glory , fame , magic , authority , sight , hearing , and perception . |
| 11 | How do these different ways of understanding contemporary racism relate to the ideologies of reading which were applied to the study texts ? |
| 12 | As to gold , sheets of the metal were applied to the large shale buttons found with prestigious burials under a group of round barrows in Wessex . |
| 13 | We were ( unusually ) blessed with good weather over this period and the following weekend three coats of G4 were applied to the interior walls of the new pond and the header pools . |
| 14 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 15 | A change of representation is necessary , though , in the case of a circular flock of starlings ; for if the basic clustering algorithm were applied to the cartesian coordinates of the birds , then the information that they are in a circle would be lost . |
| 16 | Such models were applied to the car market by several authors in the 1960s and early 1970s ; this research is intended to determine whether the principle can still be usefully applied in forecasting the size of the market . |
| 17 | He has found in a three-year programme that tuber size and yield increased the most when both foliar phosphate and basal fertiliser phosphate were applied to the plants . |
| 18 | The situation which has applied in two out of the last three years , when percentage cuts or hold-backs were applied across the board by Management , is incompatible with the special factors involved in Library financial management . |
| 19 | Polyclonal antibodies to the three clases of glutathione S-transferase were applied at the following dilutions of a stock solution ( protein concentration 1 mg/ml ) : glutathione S-transferase α 1/100 ; glutathione S-transferase µ 1/50 ; glutathione S-transferase π 1/200 . |
| 20 | These were applied in the case of the Jones family . |
| 21 | They were applied in the Northern Ireland election we are examining . |
| 22 | **Separate 5 per cent thresholds were applied in the eastern and western sectors . |
| 23 | And since the frozen peas and firm bandaging were applied by the fair hands of a comely maiden , I began to think that perhaps I could reasonably update my views on the ankle , Eros-wise . |
| 24 | The principles of Lampleigh v. Brathwait as interpreted in Re Casey 's Patents were applied by the Privy Council in Pao On v. Lau Yiu Long , [ 19801 A.C. 614 , below , pp. 229 and 650 . |
| 25 | They drew attention to Israel 's refusal to implement UN demands to withdraw from the occupied territories and asked why no sanctions were applied against the Israelis . |
| 26 | In due course , these new laws were applied against the protesters who appeared to be on strong ground when challenging their convictions , since , in their haste to bring these laws into operation , the drafters had apparently acted ultra vires . |
| 27 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 28 | If this kind of picture were to apply to the London Caribbean community , we should expect to find a pattern where Creole was used between members of the first generation and by them to their children . |
| 29 | The new reserve ratio arrangements were to apply across the whole ofthe banking system and not merely to the London clearing banks . |
| 30 | Each CV was tailored to a particular post by including a short paragraph explaining why the candidate was applying for the job . |