Example sentences of "[pron] apply a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I applied a couple of generous handfuls and styled away until my quiff was cast in bronze . |
| 2 | After bathing , get someone to apply a ‘ back pack ’ for you : use a facial mask ( choose according to your skin type ) and apply in the same way as for the face . |
| 3 | Then , with the paint still damp on the paper , I apply a small , but watery mixture of burnt umber and Prussian blue to the area where the bulk of the shadows are found and allow this to bleed into the stone undercoat . |
| 4 | Then , with the paint still damp on the paper , I apply a small , but watery mixture of burnt umber and Prussian blue to the area where the bulk of the shadows are found and allow this to bleed into the stone undercoat . |
| 5 | So , given the current limitations on my mobility , I apply a variation of the same technique , and convey myself , travelling from one silvery globule to another , and thus on to the nearest windowpane . |
| 6 | I apply a multiplier of nine , it follows that the figure I allow for this period is five hundred and thirty four thousand seven hundred and ninety seven pounds and sixty four pence and the total cost of future care is therefore eight hundred and ninety four thousand seven hundred and ninety seven pounds and sixty four pence . |
| 7 | For the third period in general management for the rest of her working life , I assess her annual salary at fifteen thousand nine hundred pounds net , to which I apply a multiplier of twelve to reach the figure of one hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred pounds . |
| 8 | This car dealer commits an offence , not under section 1(1) ( a ) , but only under section 1(1) ( b ) because he has not himself applied a false trade description . |
| 9 | Shrugging , she applied a touch of soft coral lipstick and a dusting of grey-green eyeshadow . |
| 10 | This is rendered quite conscious not just in the touching veneration of Andy White ( ‘ it 's in my blood ! ’ ) but even in the work of Sonic Youth , who apply a sense of legacy to their history of rock extremity . |
| 11 | Trends in Old Master drawings over the last twelve years analysed by Professor Victor Ginsburgh and Nicholas Schwed of Brussels University , who apply a new methodology |
| 12 | American zoologists and botanists were , like those elsewhere , divided into ‘ lumpers ’ and ‘ splitters ’ : lumpers are those who apply a coarse taxonomy , putting into one group individuals which may differ quite widely ; whereas splitters use a fine taxonomy , making species where lumpers saw only races or varieties . |
| 13 | Another theory is that of Gibbs & di Marzio ( 1958 ) , who apply a lattice model of a polymer to a statistical calculation of the configurational entropy . |
| 14 | When will there be an end to the philistine approach of the Government who apply a cornershop philosophy to the arts ? |
| 15 | We will give the first 100 people who apply a FREE copy of our broadsheet on " Pesticides : Waging War on our Countryside " . |
| 16 | You want a car that easily forgives if you apply a little too much throttle a little too early on a wet road ? |
| 17 | ‘ That gave the free-lovers a bit of a turn , ’ admitted Constance , ‘ but they think if you apply a nice hygienic bit of clingfilm , everything 'll be all right . |
| 18 | All the nuclei in the body process at a , or rotate at a particular speed , according to whatever size magnetic field you put them in , and then you apply a radio frequency field to the body at the , at just that frequency , and if you tune things correctly , there is absorption of energy , and you can detect that . |
| 19 | So you apply an osmo you in introduce the vesicles into into one chamber , apply an osmotic gradient , and those vesicles then fuse with the artificial bilayer , and again if you 're lucky you see a single channel erm appear in the bilayer and you can then stop the fusion process to stop more er channels appearing . |
| 20 | It comes primed , ready for the paint finish of your choice ( we applied a rich marbled effect ) . |
| 21 | Now suppose we could describe the position of every atom in some global continuum , then we would be " embedding " the entire system in the continuum and , for example , if we applied an homogeneous displacement . |
| 22 | Valdo and Romario soon defied the squelching conditions with a double exchange of passes that took them through the middle of the Dutch defence before the ball rolled across a gaping goalmouth with no one to apply a finishing touch . |
| 23 | Having established a role for women — beautiful and otherwise — Nuttall went on to ask : ‘ Can we apply a quivering phallic strength to our civic organization and our economy ? ’ |
| 24 | For θ <0 , we apply a similar procedure , decreasing θ from zero and calculating θ in each tableau using ( 6.4a ) . |
| 25 | In these methods , we apply a succession of similar transformations to a matrix A : unc and so on , until A is transformed into a form giving the eigenvalues directly : it may be a triangular form , or the ultimate canonical form unc ( or unc if A is defective ) . |
| 26 | If we apply a constant voltage then , after the elapse of a short time , charge neutrality is re-established in the interior of the conductor but there will be some uncompensated charges in the immediate vicinity of the surfaces . |
| 27 | If we apply a voltage the current will appear after some delay . |
| 28 | Tony Smith claims that we apply a double standard to orthodox and alternative medicine , using published studies in the medical literature to denounce the former while relying largely on anecdotal evidence to promote the latter . |
| 29 | When they applied a voltage to the grid , the pyrole polymerised onto it . |
| 30 | When they applied a voltage of — 0.7 V to the mesh they found that the resistance to passage of chloride ions was ten times greater than at zero volts . |