Example sentences of "apply [pers pn] to the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principles can be demonstrated by applying them to the design of a stepped shaft where a maximum stress concentration factor has been specified . |
| 2 | Only through composition can pupils acquire effective mastery of the enlarged vocabulary with which they become acquainted through literature , but which remains inert in their minds without the exercise of applying it to the expression of their own thought . |
| 3 | There , sure enough , I found the recipe for dissolving phosphorus in olive oil and applying it to the face for a ‘ ghost ’ . |
| 4 | We have further developed the ‘ flooding dose ’ technique for measurement of tissue protein synthesis in normal and pathological tissues in man , in vivo , and have now applied it to the study of normal and diseased colorectal tissue . |
| 5 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |
| 6 | We can then proceed to apply them to the work on literacy that we have been examining . |
| 7 | As Giles Worsley explains in Architectural Drawings of the Regency Period , the term ‘ Regency ’ is technically understood to cover the period from 1811 to George III 's death in 1820 , but in matters concerning architecture , decoration and furniture , it is more appropriate to apply it to the years from 1790 to 1837 with the accession of Queen Victoria . |
| 8 | He takes poststructuralist assumptions about the death of the author and the disappearance of the self-subsistent ego , and applies them to the history of English poetry , in a work which combines ingenious close reading , impressive knowledge of metre , and an overall argument of stratospheric thinness and remoteness . |
| 9 | In particular , it attempts to assess how rational decision-makers will act in certain situations : ‘ It takes the tools of economics and applies them to the material of politics . |
| 10 | Much more important is that the student is aware of the general principles of that particular area of law , has acquired the proper technique for finding out the specific rules and can apply them to the facts of the case . |
| 11 | First , he applies it to the rites of purification which a warrior has to perform among , for example , the American Indian peoples of Natchez and the Pima , which involve the killer in being taboo for days , weeks or even months after the killing . |
| 12 | there is a similar teleology present in Marx 's historical materialism that says there are a series of economic modes of production that societies must pass through until socialism is reached , when the economic contradictions of all previous modes are resolved Lukács borrows the structure of Marx 's economic argument and applies it to the process of knowledge/consciousness/ideology , supporting his own argument with Marx 's economic theory . |
| 13 | Another method , used especially for figures , was to pour the clay into a mould and when dry apply them to the surface of the vessel . |
| 14 | We will revitalise Section 4 of the 1968 Theft Act , i.e. the crime of gaining property and pecuniary advantage by deception , and apply it to the activities of Life Assurance salesmen . |
| 15 | He struck the match and applied it to the heads of all the other matches in the partly open box . |