Example sentences of "apply only to a " in BNC.

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1 In this latter regard , a distinction must be drawn between , on the one hand , Bills of general application — Public Bills , and Bills applying only to a particular area or person — Private Bills .
2 To be accurate , ‘ private press ’ should be applied only to a press where the owner 's or operator 's chief objective is to print a fine book , without being at the mercy of a publisher 's instructions and a first necessity to show a profit , even though he may sell his wares through commercial channels .
3 John Carter , on the other hand , concluded that ‘ as generally understood , the term private press would be applied only to a shop where the work was hand-set and hand-printed ’ .
4 Although there is some laxity in the use of the term , ‘ broadside ’ or ‘ broadsheet ’ should properly be applied only to a complete , undivided large sheet , printed on one side .
5 It applies only to a few high risk processes and is invariably achieved by means of heat .
6 Mr. Armitage [ junior counsel for the plaintiff ] suggested that clause ( b ) applies only to a mistake made by the officials in the Registry and not to a mistake made or induced by one or other of the parties .
7 The defence contained in the proviso applies only to a contravention of subs .
8 Curiously , the Order discriminates against Scottish and Irish lawyers : the relaxation of the general rule applies only to a defined class of EC lawyers from which those qualified in Scotland or Northern Ireland are , whether by accident or design , excluded .
9 Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’
10 Consequently , the defence account of mistake is of general applicability whereas the definitional account can apply only to a limited range of cases .
11 This would apply only to a juvenile already in care of a local authority and then found guilty of a further imprisonable offence , and would be for a fixed period of not more than six months .
12 If asthmatics with reflux were somehow more readily influenced to have endoscopy than asthmatics without reflux , our results would apply only to a selected group of asthmatics , and selection bias would be present .
13 The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group .
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