Example sentences of "[was/were] apply the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infant mortality rates are rising rapidly , reaching 17.9 per 1,000 births in 1991 according to the Russian statistical classification , although the report states that if international standards were applied the figure could be three times this level . |
| 2 | His orders were to apply the methods that had proved so successful in Vienna to mop up the surviving Jewish influence at the heart of the Reich . |
| 3 | However , the payments were paid out regularly and if one were to apply the normal UK rules those payments would have taken on the form of income ( see Brodie 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1933 ) 17 TC 432 ; Jackson 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1942 ) 25 TC 13 and Postlethwaite v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 224 ) . |
| 4 | Mahfouz was applying the spirit of scientific inquiry to spiritual matters . |
| 5 | Still , it was heartening to see that Baryshnikov , now that he is running a company of his own , was applying the wisdom taken for granted in ballet , but still to be learned in too many American contemporary companies : that it is dangerous to make up a mixed programme using the work of only one choreographer . |
| 6 | On May 4th , before a meeting of the Council of the Americas , he said that the only way he could build support for a system of open trade was to apply the laws that Congress had put in place , and to hold America 's partners to agreements they have made . |
| 7 | An alternative was to apply the abrasive in powdered form to saws of materials like bone , wood , bamboo or iron . |
| 8 | The expressed regulatory purpose was to apply the new rules equally to all NVOCC 's , both foreign and domestic , ‘ inasmuch as foreign NVOCC 's were already subject to tariff filing requirements under the Shipping Act of 1984 . ’ |
| 9 | His distinctive contribution was to apply the conventions of estate and garden plans to county maps . |
| 10 | What however he did seek to do , starting from about nineteen-hundred erm and ten , or nineteen-twelve , was to apply the same methodological procedures which he 'd applied in mathematics , to a range of philosophical problems . |