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

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1 A similar argument applies to the 900 curies of molybdenum and its breakdown into technetium .
2 The same principle applies to the accused who eats a meal in a restaurant and then decides to leave without paying : Corcoran v Whent [ 1977 ] Crim LR 52 ( DC ) .
3 Thus it applies to the mean velocity and to the fluctuations separately ,
4 This applies to the genital area not less than any other and it would appear that children find pleasure in manipulation of their sexual organs very early in existence .
5 The same applies to the small quadrant-shaped tiles used for finishing off the junction between baths and tiled walls still available , but in a limited range of colours these days ( sealants and plastic trims have taken their place ) .
6 The following description covers the main railway machinery , which applies to the great majority of railway employees in BR .
7 Inheritance tax applies to the total value of the deceased 's assets , so the directors of a haulage company need to be aware of the tax bite on their highly prized commercial wealth .
8 However , there exists the danger that ‘ issues ’ or ‘ problems ’ seen as relevant to gay groups outside of Ireland may be automatically ‘ adopted ’ here with the problem and its solution neatly packaged without first questioning whether it applies to the Irish gay experience and if it does , whether the proxy solutions are a help or a hindrance to the developing gay and lesbian psyche here .
9 CGT only applies to the actual profit you make , so if you buy shares to the value of £25,000 and sell them later for £35,000 the taxman will only be interested in the £1 0,000 profit you have gained .
10 I entirely agree that the Geneva convention — the fourth convention — applies to the occupied territories .
11 Like the hon. Lady , we believe that the fourth Geneva convention — the protocol — applies to the occupied territories .
12 The same problem applies to the new proposals , which are based on compensating flocks that are far lower than the Scottish average .
13 There are three different rates of income tax : the new 20 per cent rate introduced in the 1992 Budget which applies to the first £2,000 of your taxable income ; the 25 per cent basic rate tax which applies to the next slice of taxable income between £2,000 and £23,700 ; and the 40 per cent higher rate tax which is levied on all taxable income over £23,700 .
14 This also applies to the first return .
15 The unspoken assumption here , as so often elsewhere , was that crowds would impair enjoyment — a typically individualistic assumption which it is taken for granted applies to the entire population .
16 One can readily appreciate that what applies to the siting and design of the pool also applies to the internal structure .
17 Their view that the less the state interferes with the market , the better for everyone is a totally different argument , especially as it applies to the developing countries .
18 The low status of utilitarian knowledge also applies to the personal , social and commonsense knowledge stressed by those pursuing the pedagogic tradition .
19 It applies to the symbolic language of dream life , which seems to be almost universal among Homo sapiens and which has a life of its own .
20 The same I 'm afraid applies to the two competitors from our region , Sarah Niklin and Nina Holloway have n't made the cut and will take no further part in the tournament .
21 The same applies to the other aspects of early physical care : nature , it appears , has arranged things rather more flexibly and kindly than Freud believed .
22 A similar comment also applies to the other sort of humour found in some basically unhumorous crime fiction ; the wisecracks or one-liners in many private-eye stories and some other books .
23 Do n't know whether the same applies to the other two .
24 This judgement applies to the I- dominant poems ( 88 , 89 ) as to the Thou- dominant ones , such as 35 , where after the first quatrain excusing the Friend 's faults ( ‘ No more be griev 'd at that which thou hast done ’ ) the second suddenly recoils on itself : This is indeed to bring a plea ‘ 'gainst myself ’ , to become an accomplice or ‘ accessory ’ , plunging oneself in ‘ civil war ’ .
25 The same applies to the general deterrent argument : its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all , and , if it does , whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long , fixed-term sentence .
26 Neither constraint applies to the Tertiary College where adults and part-time students make up a sizable proportion of the student population .
27 The same applies to the Soviet war graves …
28 The same principle applies to the highest key on any track ; as the highest key on track 06 was 298 when the file was created , a record with the key 299 belongs logically to track 07 , whether it is stored on that track already or has not yet been added .
29 The rational way to employ such conflicting prudential principles would not be to deduce from more general principles which of them applies to the present case .
30 Neither of these considerations applies to the present appeal .
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