Example sentences of "apply [art] " in BNC.

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1 If so , this may mean that you applied the strapping ; too tightly .
2 Yvor Winters , eschewing lurid and unstable metaphors of bloodpoisoning and leukaemia , applied the discipline of intellectual history to isolate the virus that for him too disabled American literature of the north-east .
3 Judge Wroath applied the right test in deciding whether or not the mother was unreasonably withholding her consent .
4 WILL CLARK applied the coup de grace that extended the Chicago Cubs ' post-season losing streak to 44 years and took the San Francisco Giants into the World Series against their neighbours the Oakland Athletics .
5 It applied the methods of Kent campus to imaginary grievances in a divided , or divisible , community in Northern Ireland .
6 The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon .
7 Dot watched as her mother applied the shiny flame-red lacquer to each toe-nail .
8 First , however , Mrs Browning rose , and gave the branch of wood a good push , making it spark into life ; then built a little edifice of twigs , and applied the bellows .
9 Some poor sap made the mistake of his career and applied the wrong brand of paint — the kind that would n't wash off .
10 But Grandmother Gertler had her own version and applied the word to less earth-shattering blessings .
11 With the consent of the donor , the Commission applied the fund instead to encouraging secondary schools in the crofting areas to carry out schemes for the improvement of the village environment
12 A number of farms had a son , or other member of the family , who would attend but of the 87 to whom this question applied the main answer received was : ‘ it depends ’ .
13 It is time we applied the same reasoning to all .
14 He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland .
15 The last fish he had landed was a magnificent sea-trout weighing 6lb and , as he applied the priest , he was telling his companions about a similar fish , caught by his father in the dim and distant past : ‘ A beautiful fish , gentlemen , just like this one is . ’
16 Gloria never sunbathed as she thought it was ageing ; she applied the same effect out of a bottle .
17 Then a Hall corner-kick was headed goalwards by Read and Pullen applied the final touch to make it 3–0 .
18 There followed a family of streamlined cars , designed by W. L. ‘ Mac ’ Marshall of English Electric , who applied the railcoach features to open single-deckers and two types of double-deck car .
19 When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes .
20 One of these visions is that of the Indian Aurobindo in which he applied the theory of evolution to the cosmos .
21 Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited .
22 Nobody applied the term ‘ silly season ’ to the news that a man had got into Buckingham Palace and had a chat with the Queen , sitting on the edge of her bed .
23 I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact .
24 Nevertheless the Act is based upon this distinction ; some other countries have followed the logic and applied the legislation to all forms of information systems , whether manual or electronic , but it is not known how effective such legislation is .
25 Fig 2 shows what you would end up with if you applied the formula to the chord voicings that were shown in fig 1 .
26 As the nose of the aircraft was raised and some right bank smoothly applied the aircraft was observed to flick suddenly to the right to ninety degrees of bank , whereupon the nose dropped and it descended steeply to the ground .
27 The French applied the tourniquet just in time to stagger to a winning start .
28 He applied the term ‘ Luminiferous Ether ’ to the formative substrate .
29 Rideout faces a three-match ban after catching Peacock right in front of referee Gerald Ashby , who earlier applied the letter of the law when Southall instinctively grabbed a backpass straight at his midriff whilestanding a yard outside his area .
30 That was certainly the case in the 73rd minute when Hughes applied the killer blow .
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