Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] applied [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plaintiffs , a borough council , brought proceedings under section 222 of the Local Government Act 1972 and applied for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the defendants from using shop premises of theirs for trade on Sundays in breach of section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 The defendants resisted the claim against them on the ground , inter alia , that section 47 was in conflict with article 30 of the E.E.C . |
| 2 | The desire of politicians to control annual outcomes in this way was unrealistic when applied to a policy in which the industry 's own long-term objectives ( in this case overcoming the capacity backlog ) were in conflict . |
| 3 | The conclusion seems most sensible when applied to the displays between rivals for a mate , for food or for territory . |
| 4 | ‘ So , sometime before or during the course of Thursday evening , a ceremonial sword is taken from its place in the Infantry chapel , sharpened and applied to the head of a priest . |
| 5 | With so many parameters to consider , it is helpful to have a system ensuring that the criteria are consistent and applied in the same order . |
| 6 | With so many parameters to consider , it is helpful to have a system ensuring that the criteria are consistent and applied in the same order . |
| 7 | Having stated the general duty of a doctor towards his terminally ill p it is necessary to examine how this general duty is made more specific and applied in the myriad real-life situations which arise . |
| 8 | Such language would be quite inappropriate if applied to the typical civil law system . |
| 9 | And it is particularly inappropriate when applied to the world 's waters . |
| 10 | This conclusion assumes that phytoplankton productivity can be usefully indexed by biomass levels , which is inappropriate when applied to the North Pacific . |
| 11 | Phosphocellulose fraction C was dialysed against buffer 3 containing 50 mM ( NH 4 ) 2 SO 4 and applied to a DEAE Sephadex A25 column at a rate of 5mg protein/ml bed volume . |
| 12 | The general experience is that they are likely to prove most effective when applied on an area-wide basis , and with the additional objective of improving the quality of the environment . ’ |
| 13 | Even though essential oils are sometimes given orally ( especially in the case of garlic ) they can often be even more effective when applied to the skin . |
| 14 | It would , for example , be no defence for the seller to say that his farm fertiliser was perfectly safe and effective when applied in the right concentration ( at the right time of the year ) if the instructions supplied with the fertiliser stated in error the wrong concentration , whether too weak to be effective or so strong as to kill the crops . |
| 15 | The formula can be extended to a pop group , as in Lester 's Beatles films , or Boorman 's Catch Us If You Can ( 1965 ) centred on the Dave Clark Five , but it looks more than a little shaky when applied to a more complex , not to say maudlin , character like that written by Shelagh Delaney for Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles ( 1967 ) . |
| 16 | Whereas a strategy of incorporation can be relatively successful when applied by a regime of right-wing orientation which is prepared to support it with repression , it has proved to be ineffective for leftist groups which claim to be advancing the interests of the working class . |
| 17 | Such a procedure is much more difficult when applied to a whole system of taboos in the way Freud does in Totem and Taboo . |
| 18 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 19 | Some of its sections and their subdivisions may be found unnecessary when applied to a particular problem ; some may require to be expanded . |
| 20 | The kind of joke related by any man is a good indicator of his character , mood and circumstance — a fact which is as valid when applied to the nation as a whole . |