Example sentences of "apply to the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When applying to the religious authority under which the ceremony is taking place the couple must be accompanied by at least one witness ( preferably a parent ) and have relevant documents ( birth certificates , parents Jewish marriage lines , etc. ) with them .
2 Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one .
3 Talks on a merger between the polytechnics ' and the universities ' admissions systems now seem to be in trouble , and many students will be left unsure how to go about applying to the new universities .
4 The proportion of people initially becoming unemployed as a result of the coming to an end of a temporary job who found a new job within 10 months of initial registration was not markedly different from the proportion applying to the total sample , even after taking age into account .
5 Applying to the inhibitory case the analysis of conditioning presented above leads to the suggestion that one of the associative links likely to be formed will be between the CS and a representation of no event .
6 He considered applying to the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps of Arkansas University , a nearly foolproof means of escaping combat service in Vietnam .
7 Signed Danish is not Danish , when you can not hear/distinguish the words — but another type of sign language , which has the primary advantage that hearing people can use it at the same time as they use spoken language , and the secondary advantage is that some — and only some — rules applying to the spoken language are conveyed to the deaf child .
8 Now it must , I think , be conceded that the language of the enactment here in question is fairly express — express , that is to say , to the effect of making an unlimited and unqualified prohibition , applying to the whole area specified , and affecting everybody — whether British subjects or foreigners .
9 He states that natural justice , being a flexible term which imposes distinct requirements in different cases , is capable of applying to the whole range of situations encapsulated by the terms ‘ judicial , ’ ‘ quasi-judicial , ’ ‘ administrative ’ or ‘ executive ’ .
10 Difficulties sometimes arise when one of the parties refuses to join the other party in applying to the designated appointing authority to appoint an expert .
11 Where the cover which applies to the towing unit is different from that applicable to the trailer , the application of the Partial Indemnity Clause will be governed by the cover applying to the towing unit .
12 All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles .
13 Even though the process of applying to the High Court may be a somewhat slow one ( in a context where speed of response may be all important ) , the application for review may enable the court to give useful guidance for the future relating to , for example , the meaning of a term like ‘ serious disruption to the life of the community . ’
14 After evidence came to light that some members of the Society had committed suicide by following methods described in the booklet , the Attorney-General sought to dissuade the Society from further dissemination of the Guide by applying to the High Court for a declaration that its publication amounted to the crime of aiding and abetting suicide .
15 The term Designer , when applied to the visual medium , is almost as old as the medium itself .
16 Hence , the ratio decidendi of a case may be defined as the statement of law applied to the legal problems raised by the facts as found , upon which the decision is based .
17 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 .
18 Early holiday camps had been influenced by welfare considerations , educational ideals , political dreams of the collective subject , and the Social Darwinist spirit applied to the outdoor life .
19 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 .
20 The second meaning of the word ‘ impetus ’ should be applied to the actual performance of any step or pose in the purely technical sense .
21 Lepine had applied to the Polytechnique school of Engineering in 1986 , but was offered just a conditional place pending the completion of a chemistry course .
22 If the same anticorrelation can be applied to the longer-term decline in the Sun 's diameter , it may provide a clue to the dearth of sunspots during the height of the Little Ice Age , 300 years ago .
23 All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it .
24 The full supply voltage is applied to the winding and the current is rapidly boosted to slightly above rated .
25 This concept could be applied to the machine-readable database in very literal ways .
26 April 13th ) is , I suppose , typical of the modish caricature of realpolitik now being applied to the Middle East .
27 When applied to the elderly , this shifting criterion for scoring Stages 3 and 4 may tend to inflate the actual amount of deep slow wave sleep actually scored .
28 Such language would be quite inappropriate if applied to the typical civil law system .
29 A bead of non-setting mastic is applied to the external joints , between the aluminium and hardwood frames at head and jambs , and between timber frame and brickwork
30 Many taxonomists have preferred to avoid a terminology based on uncertain homolgies , so that a large number of special anatomical terms are now applied to the external genitalia of insects ( Tuxen , 1970 ) .
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