Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] apply to the " in BNC.
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1 | The House of Lords upheld the award , ruling that the writers ' intention was immaterial ; what mattered was whether reasonable readers would think that the words used applied to the plaintiff . |
2 | More habitual bankrupts have to apply to the court after five years and argue their case . |
3 | When Fifa , the international federation of football associations , began to enthusiastically embrace professionalism , blissfully unaware of the social coding that England sought to apply to the game , the FA leaders retreated behind their entrenched ideas of what football represented . |
4 | As a consequence , fiduciary duties continue to apply to the directors of a company and to 'shadow " directors ( persons whose instructions or directions often determine the decision of the board of directors ) . |
5 | The Data Protection Act did apply to the doggy database , he added , and all details would kept confidential . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The supermarket chains , Sainsbury , Tesco and Safeway have applied to the high court to try to stop the opening in this country of an American style warehouse club . |
8 | Phonelink Plc has applied to the London Stock Exchange for trading of its shares on the Unlisted Securities Market ( CI No 2,166 ) and will use the £9.9m raised to fund research and development , increase its visibility on the market , and ensure it has the financial clout to sit alongside its partners on a equal footing . |
9 | This scenario seems to apply to the position in The Netherlands , otherwise seen as being in the forefront of community care . |
10 | Though there is no appeal procedure laid down if the chairman of the meeting rejects a proxy duly lodged and therefore does not allow that creditor 's vote , it is open to the creditor affected to apply to the court for the chairman 's decision to be reversed and for a new meeting to be held . |
11 | A group of Yorkshire farmers has applied to the UK Trading Standards Office for approval to use the British Standard ‘ kite mark ’ as an endorsement of the quality of their beef . |
12 | It was later reported that South Africa had applied to the Botswana government on Feb. 22 for the extradition of the other three missing co-defendants . |
13 | By March 1987 the UK had applied to the Commission for a delay until 1989 for all areas where , on a random survey , more than 2.5 per cent of the properties showed the MAC was exceeded . |
14 | Ipswich have applied to the management committee of the British Speedway Promoters ' Association to use the rider replacement facility for Parker until the Australian is fit — or until a signing is made . |
15 | The same pattern has applied to the print media . |
16 | And do , do people have to apply to the Association ? |
17 | Will an amicable agreement be reached , or will the villagers of Seamer decide to apply to the Home Secretary for their charter to be revoked ? |
18 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
19 | However average does apply to the OT policy . |
20 | A total of 34,521 families and single people have applied to the local authorities under the homelessness legislation in 1990-91 . |
21 | Snell has suggested that this sense of right was sufficiently marked to make expectations from the Poor Law part of the " moral economy " which Edward Thompson has applied to the poor 's expectation that corn would be sold to them at " just " prices . |
22 | The agency has applied to the Scottish Office for permission to erect a barrier across the mouth of the dock which is used by local fishermen to unload their catches and berth their boats . |
23 | Notice that , if the adjective is not initially ( in the constructional sense ) applied to the noun phrase , it does not necessarily imply that an extralinguistic correlate of the latter must initially lack that property , and it is even compatible with the speaker or hearer knowing that the property does apply to the referent ( see ( 36 ) to ( 40 ) ) . |
24 | Governors at Heworth Primary School in York have applied to the city council to be allowed to make alterations to the building to form an upper storey and to install a fire escape . |
25 | Significantly , in the House of Lords the limitation clause was as a matter of construction upheld to apply to the circumstances of the case although , in the event , their Lordships affirmed the unanimous judgment of the Court of Appeal in holding that the clause was rendered unenforceable by statute because it would not be " fair or reasonable to allow reliance " on it . |
26 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
27 | And promoter Mickey Duff has applied to the IBF and WBA to have the fight recognised as a world title eliminator . |
28 | Further , while the rapist was in prison , the victim had applied to the housing department for a change of flat , but after discussions with a social worker , she apparently decided to stay put . |
29 | Indeed part of the drive towards modern science in the West was the search for the laws which God had in fact chosen to apply to the world ; experiment as well as deductive reasoning were necessary to find them out . |