Example sentences of "[Wh pn] apply for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |
| 2 | He told him to whom to apply for union membership . |
| 3 | The Melrose saga began earlier this year when he was one of several players , including former Wallaby Mitchell Cox , who applied for reinstatement to play the game . |
| 4 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 5 | They intended , they said , to be stricter in the way they selected credit traders who applied for membership , and to distance themselves from ‘ rogue moneylenders ’ . |
| 6 | He said that there had been an unprecedented 37 per cent rise in the number of recently arrived Soviet Jews who applied for unemployment benefit in March , as increasing numbers ended their initial period of direct state support . |
| 7 | Mr Baker said many of the 45,000 people who applied for refugee status in Britain last year were bogus . |
| 8 | For example , a person who applies for life assurance will be asked whether they have already had the HIV antibody test . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Women and men living together as couples who apply for Poll Tax benefit will have their joint incomes assessed when the amount of benefit is calculated . |
| 11 | At one point Dr. Goldsmith was informed that ‘ this committee definitely order him to see all persons who apply for admission to the House before they are admitted , in accordance with the requirements of the local government board ’ . |
| 12 | There is a limited amount of money available for these payments , so social fund officers have to look at the needs of all those who apply for help and decide which needs can be met . |
| 13 | MORE THAN four out of five people who apply for planning permission get it . |
| 14 | Britain has also persuaded our partners to welcome new countries who apply for Community membership . |