Example sentences of "[adv] apply for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be claimed for romantic and romance , but is not appropriate in the case of arable farmer , nor of foreign policy or animate nouns from ( 7 ) , nor of new in ( 17 ) nor naked in ( 18 ) ; and it would clearly not apply for nuclear scientist either ; while there does exist a noun nucleus , which is certainly the etymological origin of the adjective , the scientist is , synchronically and in the usage of the ordinary speaker , to be connected with the indefinite notion of nuclear matters ( where , for example , Latin would have used the neuter plural of an adjective ) rather than directly with nucleus ; one may reasonably guess that many speakers to whom the word nucleus is quite unfamiliar would nevertheless feel they understood quite satisfactorily a headline which read : TOP NUCLEAR SCIENTIST GOES MISSING ! |
| 2 | Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT ‘ a mere 16 days late . ’ |
| 3 | Certainly , if the latter did not want to be represented or could easily apply for judicial review in person , there might be no good reason to accord standing to a self-appointed representative . |
| 4 | [ Around 1800 ] persons … were enabled by their skill and industry to maintain themselves and families in a state of comfort and respectability ; and to keep their own houses and pay taxes , scot and lot , and contribute towards the maintenance of other persons in their profession , who were either sick or in distress , so that it was scarcely known that any person in this trade ever applied for parochial relief . |
| 5 | The biggest landowners , who could best afford to erect new dwellings with a reasonable standard of construction and sanitation , had the least incentive to do so — indeed , as the principal local ratepayers they might easily penalize themselves by attracting workers who could later apply for poor relief . |
| 6 | The travellers have now applied for retrospective planning permission . |
| 7 | A wave of secondary schools will now apply for grant-maintained status . |
| 8 | Er we 've got one month in which to do it basically erm so what I would suggest is that the officers of the three unions represented here apply for paid release first of all to or , presumably it will be Geoff the Chief Personnel Officer . |
| 9 | Of the survivors , 4168 ( 32% ) were again applying for partial reimbursement of the cost of ulcer drugs in 1989–90 ( Table III ) . |
| 10 | In English cases , the English correspondent should theoretically apply for legal advice and assistance or legal aid in England , and any further work necessary in Scotland should be done by the Scottish solicitor as correspondent of the English solicitor . |
| 11 | A number of other institutions have recently applied for corporate membership . |