Example sentences of "it apply to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( At the same time , the government reformed the rating system as it applied to companies by introducing a uniform business rate — set at the same rate throughout the country . )
2 In Plowman 's case it was argued that on its true construction the restrictive covenant was too wide as it applied to goods of all kinds and would prevent canvassing by the employee in articles of trade of any kind .
3 The message that prevention is better than cure applies just as much to dental problems as it applies to heart disease .
4 That is where the complicity erm it applies to clothes , it applies to all sorts .
5 The analytic versus holistic dichotomy as it applies to laterality research has been more often invoked to explain results in a post hoc fashion than it has itself been subjected to experimental scrutiny .
6 Assuming that these risks are real ones in the large public company , the chapter will survey the law of negligence as it applies to directors , and will consider whether the role of the courts as external monitors of management efficiency could usefully be increased .
7 This " supplying the means " infringement is useful as it applies to persons who supply products in kit form .
8 The resulting public pressure led the government in 1985 to remove the right to compensation , as it applies to blocks of flats where the proposal is for an increase in the number of dwelling units ( not for an increase in height ) .
9 However , it will also show how recent developments within the definition of the ‘ urban ’ , as it applies to consumption , are now indeed beginning to touch on our central concerns .
10 The answer , and it applies to Hearts ' Alan McLaren at centre back too , is that it is not possible to think of anyone who could be chosen in front of the pair .
11 However , this makes no difference to what has been stated above , since the judgment in the Brugnoni case is based , as the Commission points out , on the general objective of the First Directive in so far as it applies to transactions with the Directive liberalised , and it is clear from Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 194/84 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4737 , 4750 , para. 9 , that capital movements set out in list A also benefit from ‘ unconditional liberalisation . ’
12 Now if you sort of turn that round there 's a lot in it as it applies to Christians .
13 It applies to shops , offices , factories , universities , schools , colleges of education , colleges of further education and buildings to which the public are admitted .
14 The wording of s17 is slightly different from that of s3 ; it applies to terms in a " standard form contract " .
15 At Keyence , it applies to production of the finished goods as well .
16 In so far as it applies to Arabic , for instance , it suggests that an ego-centred pattern which is perfectly feasible and natural in English has to be replaced in most contexts by a process-centred pattern which is far more typical of Arabic .
17 If we look at rule six , and we 've all been given rulebooks , if people have brought them with us , what we have to do is bend that rule so that it applies to branches , not members .
18 ‘ to persons in or on that vehicle ( or trailer ) 'means that the danger or potential danger is sufficient if it applies to passengers or even the driver of the motor vehicle concerned .
19 It applies to homes for elderly people and homes for people with disabilities , mental health or addiction problems .
20 It applies to health right across the board .
21 That is to say , it applies to novelists themselves as well as to their heroes and heroines .
22 It applies to environments covering the extremes of temperature and density the results of many branches of physics from the special and general theories of relativity and plasma physics to nuclear reactions and elementary particle physics .
23 To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about the United Kingdom trade deficit in 1991 as it applies to food and drink .
24 The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit .
25 Here is De Camp 's description of the continuum as it applies to Jamaica ( 1971:350 ) : no one can deny the extreme variability of Jamaican English … in Jamaica there is no sharp cleavage between Creole and standard .
26 Lawton ( 1980 ) is critical of the " continuum hypothesis " as it applies to Jamaica .
27 It applies to industry in the standard of product or in the service provided , both of which are essential to remaining competitive .
28 It applies to people wheresoever they come from , whether Africa , Asia or eastern Europe .
29 Neither does it apply to claims which are solely or mainly in respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness .
30 Neither does it apply to claims which are solely or mainly in respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness .
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