Example sentences of "apply [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By adopting such beliefs and applying them to contemporary society both found sustenance in elitist moral and ethical beliefs which were far removed from contemporary reality . |
| 2 | The emphasis within this degree is on acquiring analytic techniques , and applying them to real-world problems . |
| 3 | One relatively straightforward approach to this task consists in trying to refine the theory through use — to discover , by applying it to specific problems , whether it can be consistently employed and what explanations it can yield . |
| 4 | The judiciary has the function of interpreting the law and applying it to specific cases . |
| 5 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 6 | Data General Corp is moving into document imaging and forms management in an effort to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 7 | Data General Corp is going into document imaging/forms management to move hardware , taking what it learned in the minicomputer business and applying it to current events . |
| 8 | How many have taken the edge off the phrase at the grass roots by applying it to inappropriate circumstances ? |
| 9 | There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) . |
| 10 | For instance , they discovered how useful honey was in the treatment of wounds and it was thanks to people 's participation that the best ways of applying it to particular kinds of wounds were developed . |
| 11 | In Britain , for instance , Waste Management International , Shanks & McEwan and Severn Trent/Biffa are enraged that the government has decided to postpone the introduction of the landfill standards in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , and refuses to apply them to existing landfills . |
| 12 | The purpose of this chapter is to outline the elements involved in resource management in schools and to apply them to current practice . |
| 13 | Are these sufficiently closely defined for us to be able to apply them to particular cases ? |
| 14 | It 's simpler to obtain large amounts of it and one hopes that if one finds out something of the mechanism through this enzyme one would be able to apply it to other enzymes dependent upon the same coenzyme . |
| 15 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 16 | People who study psychology never seem able to apply it to real life . |
| 17 | After the courts ' acceptance of the neighbour principle , there was an increasing tendency to apply it to new areas , heralding a major advance in the recovery of damages for economic loss ( e.g. Hedley Byrne & Co . |
| 18 | We will extend compulsory competitive tendering to local authority housing management , and examine how to apply it to white-collar services . |
| 19 | The emergence of current cost accounting and of efforts to apply it to public sector organizations has necessitated taking an explicit view of capital maintenance in their accounts . |
| 20 | Monde de L'Art welcomes four artists from Senegal : Amadou cloaks the everyday in the light of legend , applying considerable sophistication to the use of voids and subtle colouring ; Souleymane Keita paints abstract scenes influenced by local mythology and European stylistic developments ; the sculptor Ousmane Sow looks to Rodin , Bourdelle and Giacometti but employs local colours and rhythms ; Serigne Mbaye Camara carves geometric forms and applies them to two-colour backgrounds . |
| 21 | It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights . |
| 22 | I think you , the people you know and I said you could apply it to Tory M Ps , God knows if you 're gon na get a Tory MP for with their organization , but I 'm damn sure you can get G Ps for and you can get pharmacists for or whatever . |
| 23 | A feature of the grammar translation method ; learning by deduction the student starts with a general truth and applies it to particular cases . |
| 24 | He is not a neutral observer who first learns to define Truth and then applies it to different aspects of life . |
| 25 | In our one-day workshop , stencil expert Helen Morris , who runs a successful stencil loan service and shop , will teach you how to cut stencils and then apply them to various materials such as walls , fabrics and furniture , using stencil paint , spray paint and crayons . |
| 26 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 27 | You can define formatted styles for different types of heading and blocks of text ; once the style is defined , you simply apply it to chosen blocks of text and it will conform to your master plan . |
| 28 | Older books surveying the theology of the nineteenth century , such as John Oman 's The Problem of Faith and Freedom ( 1906 ) , commonly applied it to extreme radicals , and spoke of Ritschl as neither ‘ liberal ’ nor ‘ orthodox ’ but ‘ mediating ’ . |