APPLY

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a principle applies

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The same principle applies to all kinds of selling.

a restriction applies to sb/sth

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These travel restrictions don’t apply to tourists.

applied for...patent

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He applied for a patent for a new method of removing paint.

apply criteria (= use them )

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There are certain criteria you should apply when buying a computer.

apply for a course

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The following year she applied for a nursing course.

apply for a grant

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We could apply for a grant and start a serious research programme.

apply for a job

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I’ve applied for a job at the university.

apply for a licence

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A doctor who moves to another state must apply for a license to practice medicine there.

apply for a passport

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You can apply for an Italian passport if your parents are Italian.

apply for a permit

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Farmers must apply for permits to use the new chemicals.

apply for a position

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I decided to apply for the position of head teacher.

apply for a post

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I am writing to apply for the post of secretary.

apply for a visa

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I applied for a visa to visit China.

apply for entry

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The number of people applying for entry into the country is increasing every year.

apply for membership (= officially ask to be a member )

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To apply for membership, simply return the attached form.

apply for permission (= ask for official written permission )

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The company has applied for permission to drill for oil.

apply for university

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I applied for university without any real idea of what I wanted to do.

apply for/seek/be granted asylum

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He has been granted asylum in France.

apply paint formal

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Clean the surface before applying the paint with a brush or roller.

apply the brakes formal (= use them )

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Apply the brakes as you approach the roundabout.

apply/enquire within (= used on notices on the outside of buildings )

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Baby rabbits for sale. Enquire within.

ask for/apply for a loan

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He asked his father for a loan.

regulations apply to sth

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The regulations also apply to new buildings.

the rule applies to sb/sth (= it concerns them )

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Everyone thinks that the rule doesn’t apply to them.

use/apply logic

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Why do we not apply the same logic in the way we treat animals?

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

also

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This also applies to a few P1 units which take a column of C cells end-to-end.

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The new Jan. 22 due date also applies to taxpayers in Washington, Mr Keith adds.

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That has created a precedent which, it is argued, could also apply to the presidential term.

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They were also applying for a television license at the same time.

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The directive also applies to objects not returned at the end of a lawful temporary export.

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Marginalism also applies to government tax policy.

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This also applies , to a degree, to some lower-ranking villages.

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When the policy and practice were challenged, the court of appeals also applied the three-pronged Lemon test: 1.

equally

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Both theories apply equally to issues of law and fact.

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These dimensions apply equally to employees of new fishnet organizations and to team members working outside traditionally defined business spaces.

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All this is quite generally true, it applies equally to motor skills, perceptual skills and social skills.

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Whether these characterizations apply equally well in all situations for all philosophical traditions is a question that I leave open.

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Many of the above difficulties apply equally to the retirement of a shareholding director.

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Antitrust laws should be made to apply equally to all.

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The undertaking is applied equally to the House of Lords.

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What has previously been said about development applies equally well to the periods of development about to be discussed.

for

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The terraced house in Station Road, Darlington, is already in multiple occupancy and retrospective planning permission had been applied for .

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These arrangements, however, only affect policies that were applied for after the April 1987 deadline.

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It can be useful to ask yourself whether the profile that emerges is one that suits the job you are applying for .

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But you don't need to apply for or take a Compact job if you don't want to!

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I, too, have lost count of the number of jobs I've applied for .

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Try and pick out the aspects of your background which make you especially suitable for the job you have applied for.

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The more limits you have and the more limits you apply for , the greater the cost.

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You may apply for as many different courses as you wish.

only

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The duty only applies in respect of dwellings and does not apply to commercial or industrial properties.

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The public may think the law applies only to the most dangerous offenders, but inmates know otherwise.

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This extra bonus applies only to the war boar and not to the Orc rider.

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Now, granted, these rules apply only to the smallest kids who are learning the game.

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The settlement terms only apply to Los Angeles County.

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The changes will apply only to new contracts taken out on or after April 6 this year.

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The foregoing analysis applies only to the inclusion of blacks within the Richmond set-aside program.

still

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However, the advice about seeking professional help still applies .

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All the points covered then, both for and against, still apply now, as this unit remains unchanged.

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That still applies and it may prove difficult to finance.

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Nevertheless the Regulations still apply to such a contract.

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Surprisingly, I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply: I don't particularly like children.

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Cynics would suggest that an under-the-counter version of this system still applies - but they would be wrong.

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You can still apply to the Rent Officer to fix a Fair Rent for your accommodation.

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When this is not as a substitute for the individual fund balance sheets, the argument about incomprehensibility still applies .

to

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If you live in separate districts you must apply to both the registrars of both districts.

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The Bill provides for the right to apply to and have papers considered by the adjudicator.

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This applies to , for example, gold, petroleum, copper, iron ore, lead, silver, nickel and zinc.

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Careers teachers are advising worried pupils to contact the colleges they applied to directly.

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They will apply to almost all workplaces.

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It is not legally necessary for the same notice entitlement to apply to both you and your employer.

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Courses would have elements which applied to both professional and to amateur musicians.

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But how does this ministry apply to today's church?

■ NOUN

act

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Under my construction, the Act would apply to all customers in all the enumerated places of public accommodation.

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And yet there remains the fact, noted at the outset, that the Act applies to violence and violent threats in private.

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Keep in mind that the federal Fair Credit Act applies to online purchases as well.

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The Act does apply in negligence, nuisance, and actions under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher.

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It is unclear whether the Act applies to trespass to the person but apparently it does.

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The court ruled that the Federal Advisory Committee Act does not apply to such subcommittee working groups.

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Section 2 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act applies here.

brake

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Mrs Thatcher is anxious to apply the brakes .

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She saw his physical symptoms as evidence that he was trying unsuccessfully to apply the brakes on a natural evolutionary process.

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That's because with intervention stocks rising, the Commission has to apply the brakes .

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If the driver does not respond, a back-up system automatically applies the brakes or makes less engine power available.

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The same applies to the brakes .

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Seasoned observers have no doubt that the vocal response of so many has been instrumental in applying a brake .

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Stand by the bicycle, apply the front brake and try to push the bicycle forwards.

case

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The same principles would apply in the case of a club.

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What constitutional considerations apply in cases of libel or slander?

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Thus the First Amendment did not apply to this case since the discharge of the teachers was not a state action.

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The official departmental view is that no case is exactly like another, and hard and fast rules can not be applied .

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In resolving these conflicts, the courts establish legal principles that apply to similar cases .

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If this is so, s 7 may apply in some cases .

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The same team-based approach was applied in all cases , and it worked everywhere.

court

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Creditors have applied for a court order to take over and sell the building.

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Shariia is strictly applied by religious courts , and even the punishments for violations of the law are specified in the Koran.

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It must be applied in our courts .

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More habitual bankrupts have to apply to the court after five years and argue their case.

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Within a week she had applied to the court for a widow's pension.

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He may apply to the court if his right to redeem is disputed.

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If they still do not pay, the council can apply to the magistrates court for a summons to be served.

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What prospect has the prisoner of redress if he abandons the complaints procedure and applies to the courts ?

force

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This is just like the sweep stroke where we extend the reach to apply more force .

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The same argument is supposed to apply now with equal force .

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In order to achieve this acceleration he must apply a force much greater than the weight of his ann.

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When they pushed at the end of the arm, they were applying force farther from the fulcrum.

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The same argument applies with even greater force to the parliamentary candidates - Jones, Thorne, Davis and Gardner.

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All, with the possible exception of employer conflicts, apply with equal force to dropout rates from public schools.

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Once again Charles applied superior force , and many of the rebels immediately submitted.

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If they used a shorter pencil, they had to apply more force because they were pushing closer to the fulcrum.

grant

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He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum.

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Sniffen said he has applied for other grants but has come up empty.

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We applied for a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund on the basis that its support alone could save the church.

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Back in November, the state allowed cities that host major-league teams to apply for special grants for improvements to keep them.

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We applied for grants from a number of grant-giving bodies.

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Institutions can only apply for one grant per year.

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Project staff will help you to apply for the available grants and carry out practical work.

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By summer 1990, 44 schools had successfully applied for grant maintained status.

job

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One of these, a young man called Steve Fields, had applied for a job as a paint sprayer.

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There is just one problem: I lied about my age when I first applied for the job because of age-discrimination fears.

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I applied for a job on Query and got it.

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The teacher, Hett, had applied for a job at another school and had listed the superintendent as a reference.

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BHis biggest hurdle, however, may come when he applies for a job .

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The speculation might have been premature but Rioch has since applied for the job .

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Such a record, which is not erasable, can be held against people when applying for jobs .

law

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Until recently, however, it was thought that these laws did not apply to the beginning of the universe.

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The public may think the law applies only to the most dangerous offenders, but inmates know otherwise.

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The second is: is the law we have being applied ?

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As in many other areas of the law , the standard applied is what the reasonable person would believe under similar circumstances.

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In humans, biology grants even more, but the same laws apply .

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The state, on the other hand, insisted that the compulsory laws applied to all children, without exception.

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By Newton's third law the skin applies an equal force back and the molecule reverses direction.

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This law applies to purchases of $ 25 or more.

membership

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To apply for Membership and to claim your free introductory book, simply complete, sign and return the Membership Application.

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After I had published a dozen pieces, I could apply for full membership .

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Britain has also persuaded our partners to welcome new countries who apply for Community membership .

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She says she once applied for membership in the party, but never knew whether she had been accepted.

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This does not apply to membership or employment in any public body, e.g., an electricity authority.

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A number of other institutions have recently applied for corporate membership .

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It was about this time that Fred McKinley was invited to apply for membership .

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The Society has also applied for membership of the Association of Independent Museums.

method

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There is, however, considerable pressure in many parts of the world to apply these methods as screening tests.

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Quality assurance must be an ongoing improvement activity applying multiple methods most suited to content. 5.

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The Survey's ability to apply vector electromagnetic methods to hydrogeological and other near-surface site-investigation work was studied.

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Not everyone agrees that it is appropriate and desirable to apply the scientific method to politics.

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The same suggestion applies to methods of establishing the existence and contents of bill of lading telecommunications.

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It applied the methods of Kent campus to imaginary grievances in a divided, or divisible, community in Northern Ireland.

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In order to apply this method to large-scale problems, we must find the tree T B using the pointers available.

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But there is large-scale agreement that the aim is explanation by applying the methods of natural science.

permission

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A developer could go ahead without applying for planning permission , or could even ignore a refusal of permission.

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The owner of a sterile racehorse named Cigar said he would apply for permission to replicate the beast.

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It also applied for planning permission to dump at another site it owned at Barnahely, Ringaskiddy.

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Detectives are applying to magistrates for permission to hold them for a further 24 hours.

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The Fowlers claim just 3 weeks after he bought the property, Mr Mackarness had applied for planning permission .

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This would require farmers to apply for planning permission as is the case with other commercial or industrial developments.

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The final decision on where to apply for planning permission to build is certain to be taken on political grounds.

post

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The same applies for the post of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp's vice president of marketing.

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Three of the committee members have applied for council posts , negating their earlier commitments not to.

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I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting, but never heard anything back.

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Students are eligible for a loan during the sandwich or placement year and may apply by post .

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Originally I'd hoped to apply for Scale 2 posts ... but there are very few jobs, now.

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A similar procedure should be applied to all research posts .

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Pregnancy is acceptable, but should a woman lose her baby she will lose her right to apply for such a post .

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They became close friends, and when Arnet died in 1728 Hooper applied for the vacant post .

pressure

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If you have a nose bleed, apply pressure to the nose by pinching the nostrils together for about ten minutes.

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Thee government, but it had then successfully applied steady and persistent pressure to force Park to reestablish civilian government.

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While applying this pressure , the horse should not move or flinch away.

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Super slow-motion replays appeared to show O'Driscoll did not apply downward pressure on the ball.

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The government is applying pressure , too.

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Bjorn applied pressure in a tense finale by putting his drive on the fairway.

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In part, this was because he still thought he could make Stalin behave by applying economic pressure .

principle

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The same principles would apply in the case of a club.

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The affirmative action principle could be applied to virtually all economic or social goods.

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Puzzle number two is that other changes in financial markets were meanwhile making it easier for such principles to apply .

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The same principles apply: accuracy, detail.

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Lawrence sought to see how the domain principle might apply in mice.

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The shared earnings principle can also be applied to individual pay.

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The principle applies even with very small conferences.

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You must distinguish the two cases to know which management discipline and principles to apply .

regulation

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Britain won an important concession-a 15-year transition period during which the regulation would not apply .

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Whose regulations apply to whom and where?

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He said the regulations did not apply to the whole building, only to the alterations carried out.

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A requirement imposed by regulations shall not apply to any follower of the Sikh religion while he is wearing a turban.

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Statutory regulations applying to the industry state that all machines must be fitted with a guard.

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This definition does not affect each nation's own definition and the regulation does not apply to trade between member states.

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These regulations apply to all personnel on site, including visitors.

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The regulations also apply to new buildings and alterations and extensions of existing buildings.

rule

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However, the same rule applies to evening classes as to joining clubs - it must be a subject that really interests you.

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But under the arcane House rules that applied , the outcome actually was much closer.

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Perform a private lap dance for him where standard club rules apply , e.g. the audience can look but not touch.

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No matter how powerful the political interests, the same rules must apply to all.

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This rule did not always apply but was judge made.

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However, the rule is irresponsible if applied generally.

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In other environments the raising and lengthening rule does not apply .

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But you lose your head in this crazy hellhole, you do, and different rules apply .

section

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The circumstances in which section 75 applies are set out in Chapter 23.

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Two other caveats: First, what we have discussed in this section applies to service delivery, not regulation.

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The Regulations make clear that these sections do not apply to any private companies, whether limited by shares or guarantee.

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It would appear that the effect of the section will be to apply a fault based regime to new products.

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Accordingly the other subsections of section 4 and section 5 do not apply to section 15.

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However, others did not satisfy the requirement and the section did apply with respect to those particular transfers.

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We suppose that the Boussinesq approximation may be made and so the discussion of dynamical and thermal similarity in Section 14.5 applies .

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If section 6 applies , the contract is void.

standard

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However, it no more obliges me to apply without question your standards to you than mine to myself.

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The students argued that the school discriminated against them by applying more lenient standards to minority applicants.

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That he went grossly wrong in applying the standard does not mean that the standard as such was inapplicable.

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Professionals have to be wary of applying their own standards .

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Gradually, I was made to feel unpopular and I applied these new standards to him.

technique

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Plans are under way to apply the technique to other types of cancer as well.

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Gandhi applied a technique of combat which turned the traditional docility of the gentle Hindu into heroism.

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This issue comprises an extensive effort to apply economic modelling techniques and other analytical approaches to policy issues in a specific sector.

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A final problem with applying traditional measurement techniques to white-collar professional groups was that traditional measurement focused primarily on efficiency.

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Public awareness of the value of applying these techniques to archaeology has increased in consequence.

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Texas Instruments, for example, is finding good success with applying data compression techniques to the training sets.

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However, a number of problems confront investigators applying this technique to studies of alcoholic liver disease.

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As if to compensate for this, he applied military techniques in the colony.

test

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The Workhouse Act of 1723 had empowered parishes to apply a workhouse test by denying relief to those who refused to enter.

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It is not clear precisely how the Commission will apply these tests .

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But the House of Lords refused to apply the but for test .

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The claim by the widow was allowed by the court applying the direct consequence test for remoteness.

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They would in fact be applying a test for review not dissimilar to the one about to be examined. 2.

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As will be seen the courts have not applied this test literally.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

applied science/physics/linguistics etc

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If applied linguistics is left exclusively to an elite band of researchers, then the whole object of the exercise disappears.

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Introduction to nonlinear problems with emphasis on practical modelling, illustrative examples from pure and applied science, and use of computers.

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Since then, there has been a steady output of research within this branch of applied linguistics.

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Supported by four applied science courses covering the biology, entomology and pathology of seeds, and plant breeding.

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There is a very pervasive belief that it is research in theoretical and applied linguistics which provides the solutions.

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These four key elements are well developed and widely shared within the research communities of every natural and applied science.

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These will include basic skills as well as specialised competences in areas of applied physics.

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Why are engineering, medicine and agriculture not all grouped together as applied sciences?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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"I still haven't received my passport" "When did you apply ?"

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Apply the cream in the morning and the evening.

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Apply the lotion evenly over the skin.

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Finland did not apply to join the EC until 1992.

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How many jobs had you applied for before you were offered this one?

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Make sure the surface is completely dry before applying the final coat of paint.

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Many of the restrictions no longer apply .

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On wet or icy roads, apply the brakes gently.

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Some of the children seem unable to apply what they have learned.

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The crystal vibrates when a small electric current is applied to it.

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There are several tests you can apply to find out how old a tree is.

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You can't apply policies designed for a big country like the United States to a small country like Cuba.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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Aisha applied and was told that the dass was already full.

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However this is beginning to apply to classroom video materials too as more and more people today have video machines at home.

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I alternate the direction of these strokes, imitating the direction I use to apply the pastel in the first place.

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It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered.

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The same applies to the male.

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They try to apply pressure on both the masons and the material suppliers.

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Use the brush to soften the outline, then pencil over lips before applying lipstick.