Example sentences of "[not/n't] apply the " in BNC.

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1 Would you so react to the particular situation which confronts us now , if you were not applying the standard mechanically ?
2 ‘ David had a very good game at Leeds , apart from not applying the golden rule of playing until the ref blows his whistle .
3 Now they 're not applying the same rules and regulations in Savac and Sarouac , it 's the island peninsular , maybe their reaction to the Friends of the Earth is symptomatic of a certain degree of bad conscience that they have with the , with the other two .
4 After which it is something of a disappointment to see that Olivetti or the firm 's advertising agents have not applied the spelling disk to the advertisement .
5 The Court of Appeal held that this decision should be quashed because the Minister had not applied the correct test of competing needs , in this case between those of local government and those of other office users .
6 The credentials of team B over the last two General Elections have been so patently hopeless that the floating voter has very rightly not applied the principle .
7 Knowing when not to apply the rules is clearly an important skill to acquire .
8 So in relation to section 13(1) of the Acts of 1974 and 1976 , for a judge ( who is always dealing with an individual case ) to pose himself the question : ‘ Can Parliament really have intended that the acts that were done in this particular case should have the benefit of the immunity ? ’ is to risk straying beyond his constitutional role as interpreter of the enacted law and assuming a power to decide at his own discretion whether or not to apply the general law to a particular case .
9 Shareholders will be asked to renew the authority of the Directors to allot and issue the Ordinary Share capital in the Company and to renew , until the Annual General Meeting in 1994 , the authority not to apply the strict statutory pre-emption provisions in the events of a Rights Issue or in any other issue up to an aggregate of 5 per cent of the issued Ordinary Share Capital as at 31 December 1992 .
10 First , an objector might try to press the fashionable distaste for the first-person perspective and say that the fact that I can not apply the theory to myself shows nothing except that one should not approach the philosophy of mind via the first person .
11 Conversely , in families where this norm does not apply the Act stipulated the use of alternative care provisions and could not authorize the use of support within such family units .
12 Yet we do not apply the same common-sense principles to our own bodies .
13 We do not believe that such operations can be shown to meet our public transport target safety level , and it may be that some of our European colleagues do not consider such operations to be public transport , or do not apply the same target level of safety to such operations .
14 In this way an allegation to the effect that the officer did not apply the brake correctly may be quickly dealt with by saying ‘ After ( the officer ) tested the brakes and found the handbrake to be defective I asked the defendant to apply the handbrake .
15 By all means consider a tank of an unusual or irregular design , but be aware of the limitations and do not apply the same criteria as you would to the more conventional rectangular aquarium , especially where stocking levels are concerned .
16 Lord Armstrong wrote in his letter : ‘ We do not apply the arm 's length principle to the national museums and galleries , and we are not on the whole much troubled with allegations of political interference in curatorial or Museological policies … ’ .
17 I am sure that , despite his letter in your May issue ( Arm 's length or arm 's twist ) John Mallet really understands as well as the next man that , when I wrote in my letter of 10 March in The Times that ‘ we do not apply the arm 's length principle to the national museums and galleries ’ , I was saying no more than that there is no funding body between the Office of Arts and Libraries ( now the Department for the National Heritage ) and the national museums and galleries as there is between the Government and the subsidised theatres and performing arts bodies .
18 They decided the matter apparently on general welfare grounds and did not apply the section 25 criteria .
19 In cases where the normal rules in Stage II do not apply the entries in Section 3 are made according to the illustrated schedule in Figure 4.2 .
20 The untrained eye from ‘ off the street ’ can not apply the classification of every-day life to high modernist art .
21 In exceptional circumstances , your Head of Department will not apply the withdrawal clause if there is a reasonable explanation for failure to notify .
22 Traditionally one would not apply the ‘ schizophrenic ’ diagnosis to other religious fanatics , but why not ?
23 The EFTA countries would not apply the EC 's common agricultural or fisheries policies or the coal and steel policy , and would retain sovereign control over their energy resources and production ; stricter environmental controls on the use of chemicals would be retained by certain EFTA countries , while Norway and Sweden would retain their state alcohol monopolies .
24 In the case of a fixed date action to which Ord 17 , r 11 does not apply the return day must , unless the court otherwise directs , be a day fixed for a pre-trial review ( Ord 3 , r 3(3) ) .
25 In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable .
26 I do n't understand why we do n't apply the same logic to other mammals .
27 Whatever , you ca n't apply the urban type of capital back onto the land , so it 's okay to say this would work if capital was completely and perfectly mobile , but it is n't so , you do n't get that and you do n't get balanced growth of that .
28 It 's much easier to get good marks on a short answer question than it is in theory to but most people do n't because they do n't apply the correct technique so to writing short answers .
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