Example sentences of "apply [pn reflx] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm glad you approve , ’ said Helen , applying herself to the acquisitions file . |
| 2 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 3 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 4 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 5 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 6 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 7 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 8 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 9 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 10 | The image of ‘ basket power ’ possessed by women cooperators was a formidable and persistent one , and the guild applied itself to the task of arousing women to a sense of this leverage . |
| 11 | The English Association ( also founded in 1907 ) applied itself to the advancement of the new English within the national culture . |
| 12 | We were , hitherto erm if a person had a problem regarding er his piecework , er it may never have been er er argued to the point where , when the new system came in we were educated you know to the extent where we knew how to apply ourselves to the argument . |
| 13 | Those who acquiesce in this cynical co-incidence of interest would do well to apply themselves to the conclusions of the recent Ramblers ' Association study on Birds and Walkers : ‘ this work suggests that there is no reason to prohibit public access , but that careful management is required . |
| 14 | Her stepsister settled in England , conformed outwardly , and applied herself to the advancement of her plump , dull son . |
| 15 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 16 | While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice . |
| 17 | He issues this warning to parents : ‘ Let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children ’ — in short , not to become obsessed with the whole business of bringing them up . |
| 18 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 19 | I keep silent and simply apply myself to the task of closing the fridge door . |
| 20 | Should you be more diligent in the way you apply yourself to the tasks in hand ? |
| 21 | Putting it in different words , the trick was not applied to the appellants ; they voluntarily applied themselves to the trick . |