Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] apply to the " in BNC.
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1 | Within a week she had applied to the court for a widow 's pension . |
2 | The very reason she had applied to the shipping company for a job was that she felt she needed a complete break , a change of scene . |
3 | They began to apply to the revolution the techniques and approaches , the concern with social history and with quantitative methods , already being widely applied in less sensitive fields . |
4 | No criticism of the appellants is to be made in that respect because , alive to the problem , they had applied to the registrar for directions ; it was as a result of his directions , which I do not question for a moment , that the appeal came before this court . |
5 | and erm Wickham Market had erm Machine Centre erm , that was used during the war for erm certain courses er particularly for erm tractor drivers , they used to er have a week 's course , they had to apply to the Education Committee and er we got these applications in and erm they spent a week at Wickham Market , then in they used to stay in lodgings if they came from great distances and erm they would learn about the maintenance of erm of tractors and er , I suppose it 's quite a good thing really because er , it was difficult to get any repairs done in those days |
6 | German philosophy in the first half of the nineteenth century was dominated by the influence of George Friedrich Hegel , especially his concept of ‘ the dialectic ’ — a special kind of logic which he believed applies to the development of thought , human institutions , and social history . |
7 | For either he had to obtain another document for which he had to apply to the court and would be given by its clerk . |
8 | Well now in nineteen twenty six we had the general strike , and the conditions in Ipswich were so violent that our Borough Police we could n't cope with them , and our Chief Constable , he had to apply to the Home Office and he got permission to have men from East Suffolk and West Suffolk Police , Cambridge County Police , Huntingdon Police sent some , and they were billeted in hotels in the town centre . |
9 | He considered applying to the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps of Arkansas University , a nearly foolproof means of escaping combat service in Vietnam . |