Example sentences of "apply it to the " in BNC.

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1 The backing sheet is then removed from the film before wetting it and applying it to the window .
2 There , sure enough , I found the recipe for dissolving phosphorus in olive oil and applying it to the face for a ‘ ghost ’ .
3 On an impulse , she opened the case and took the violin out , held it and held the bow without applying it to the strings .
4 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 .
5 This unit had been set up originally to refine the art of specific writing for Television ; either by seeking out works of literature suitable for adaption , or by commissioning new material and applying it to the ‘ TV-writing art form ’ .
6 Turn to allow for this drift , applying it to the QDM you are now flying .
7 Applying it to the particular example , already considered , and so that as before .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Much the better practice is first to state the rule of law and then to apply it to the facts .
12 Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time .
13 There continued , then , to be systematic efforts to standardise examination procedure , to apply it to the whole age group , and to make it more equitable .
14 The cement was freezing before we were able to apply it to the bricks .
15 They would apply it to the mucus membrane of their vagina using a broomstick .
16 We submit our CVs with a joint covering letter explaining about job sharing , our reasons for choosing it , and how we would apply it to the advertised post .
17 we 'll now we 'll now have a we 'll do one more of those and then we 'll apply it to the wonderful cos sine and sec squared
18 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 .
19 He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level .
20 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 .
21 In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors .
22 Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared .
23 We could always engage in the Rawlsian form of argument and apply it to the new information once it becomes available .
24 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 .
25 At this stage you must use your knowledge and apply it to the question and its information content .
26 But in order to understand the problems faced in accounting theory students must often look to the literature on business organizations and apply it to the public sector context , albeit with great caution and common sense .
27 The first is to calculate the risk-adjusted discount rate and apply it to the unadjusted cash flows .
28 Here , he introduced into New Testament criticism the idea of ‘ myth ’ , and applied it to the supernatural elements in the gospels .
29 It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart .
30 applied it to the universe , they meant the rational , the
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