Example sentences of "apply [pn reflx] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm glad you approve , ’ said Helen , applying herself to the acquisitions file . |
| 2 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 3 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 4 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 5 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 6 | I hope that he now applies himself to them , because he has not applied himself to the rest of his portfolio . |
| 7 | It is a consideration which I should have applied myself to the assessment of general damages to favour this plaintiff . |
| 8 | The English Association ( also founded in 1907 ) applied itself to the advancement of the new English within the national culture . |
| 9 | The image of ‘ basket power ’ possessed by women cooperators was a formidable and persistent one , and the guild applied itself to the task of arousing women to a sense of this leverage . |
| 10 | We were , hitherto erm if a person had a problem regarding er his piecework , er it may never have been er er argued to the point where , when the new system came in we were educated you know to the extent where we knew how to apply ourselves to the argument . |
| 11 | Those who acquiesce in this cynical co-incidence of interest would do well to apply themselves to the conclusions of the recent Ramblers ' Association study on Birds and Walkers : ‘ this work suggests that there is no reason to prohibit public access , but that careful management is required . |
| 12 | Her stepsister settled in England , conformed outwardly , and applied herself to the advancement of her plump , dull son . |
| 13 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 14 | He issues this warning to parents : ‘ Let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children ’ — in short , not to become obsessed with the whole business of bringing them up . |
| 15 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 16 | I keep silent and simply apply myself to the task of closing the fridge door . |
| 17 | Should you be more diligent in the way you apply yourself to the tasks in hand ? |
| 18 | Putting it in different words , the trick was not applied to the appellants ; they voluntarily applied themselves to the trick . |