Example sentences of "[noun sg] to apply [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime Minister John Major 's Citizen 's Charter initiative , launched in the summer of 1991 , represents an attempt to apply some of the tenets of total quality management to the civil service , transport , health and education . |
| 2 | The most influential attempt to apply natural science methodology to sociology is known as ‘ positivism ’ . |
| 3 | It is squarely in the scientific tradition and is a conscious attempt to apply scientific method to international relations . |
| 4 | I gave Howard some lavender essence to apply neat ( one or two drops ) to the fissures between his toes , three times a day . |
| 5 | As well as the colour washes I used a gutta nib to apply waterproof clack ink and Quink ink , which is non-waterproof . |
| 6 | However , it can surely do no harm to apply these methods to code switching data , as long as the analyst is aware of the boundary between participants ' own interpretations — as warranted by " displays " within the talk — and the analysts ' intuitive interpretations . |
| 7 | As a result , it has never convincingly been able to counter the criticisms , which inevitably arose , when commonplace human capacity to apply intelligent questioning to proffered articles of faith , had become widespread and powerful enough to prevail above all dogma and superstition . |
| 8 | Use a comb spreader to apply fresh adhesive to the floor . |
| 9 | For example , the extract in Figure 14.3 instructs the user to apply various preservation techniques ( in 641.41641.47 ) to various meats and allied foods ( in 641.49 ) . |
| 10 | The only case to apply this approach to the running of covenants is Boyer v Warbey [ 1953 ] 1 QB 234 , in which Denning LJ stated : " I know that before the Judicature Act 1873 , it was said that the doctrine of covenants running with the land only applied to covenants under seal and not to agreements under hand … |
| 11 | Mere are many ways in which governments and their supporters can prevent these methods from being effective , but they can not work at all if the opposition has no real procedural opportunity to apply real scrutiny , nor if its efforts do not arouse the media of information and public opinion . |
| 12 | Each student then has the opportunity to apply this experience in an individual research project supervised by a member of staff . |
| 13 | Scudder ( 1964 ) , however , has emphasized the need to apply modern concepts of homology based on experimental studies of development ; such an approach , combined perhaps with the use of genetic markers for homologous segmental regions may eventually help to resolve some of the persistent difficulties in this field ( Sokoloff and Hoy , 1968 ; Fletcher , 1970 ) . |
| 14 | However , the development of better approaches to assessment requires not only that managers facilitate such development but also that practitioners are prepared for the need to apply new skills and face new dilemmas . |
| 15 | The corruptions in the West have come from man 's failure to apply those beliefs correctly . |
| 16 | Failure to apply this pressure differential will probably result in a fracture of very limited height , of the order of |
| 17 | The General was a portly , ugly man , his manners were not refined , and his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters . |
| 18 | First are theoretical approaches which depend upon some empirical knowledge to apply theoretical concepts such as the continuity equation . |
| 19 | This is just like the sweep stroke where we extend the reach to apply more force . |
| 20 | If you knew the equation relating light intensity to position in an intensity profile it would be a relatively simple matter to apply double differentiation and extract the points of maximum change . |
| 21 | This issue comprises an extensive effort to apply economic modelling techniques and other analytical approaches to policy issues in a specific sector . |
| 22 | ‘ A national court which is called upon , within the limits of its jurisdiction , to apply provisions of Community law is under a duty to give full effect to those provisions , if necessary refusing of its own motion to apply any conflicting provisions of national legislation , even if adopted subsequently , and it is not necessary for the court to request or await the prior setting aside of such provisions by legislative or other constitutional means . |
| 23 | A national court which is called upon … to apply provisions of Community law is under a duty to give full effect to those provisions , if necessary refusing of its own motion to apply any conflicting provisions of national legislation , even if adopted subsequently , and it is not necessary for the court to request or await a prior setting aside of such provisions by legislative or constitutional means . |
| 24 | There is , however , considerable pressure in many parts of the world to apply these methods as screening tests . |
| 25 | Professor Hutton 's massive study of engineering in Germany ( Hutton et al. , 1977 ) found that the average West German engineer values the ability to apply well-proven engineering solutions to problems , in a professional manner , above original thought . |
| 26 | 1977 ) found that the average West German engineer values the ability to apply well-proven engineering solutions to problems , in a professional manner , above original thought . |
| 27 | The bases of power are coercion , or the ability to apply physical sanctions ; remuneration or the ability to control rewards ; normative power or the control of symbolic rewards ; and knowledge , or the control of information . |
| 28 | What an economy needs is shareholders who have both a long-term interest in the companies they own and the desire and ability to apply some discipline to managers . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most striking indication of how cloth overtook wool as the country 's major export is an action of Henry VII in 1493 : in order to apply economic sanctions to the Low Countries , he banned cloth exports , but not those of wool ( 84 , p.283 ) . |
| 30 | We need to have some idea what the cells are picking up from , and where they are sending information to , in order to apply those two principles I gave you earlier , the selective trigger feature , and the selective projective zone . |