Example sentences of "applied [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the residents , they applied successfully for finance through the Inner Area Programme to establish the Braunstone workshops on the estate . |
| 2 | Mrs M. 's husband , a coal-miner , had been out of work for nine months when she applied unsuccessfully for her union card . |
| 3 | Argyll applied unsuccessfully for judicial review based on a restrictive view of the Commission 's substantive and procedural powers . |
| 4 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 5 | Imprisoned as a loan resister in 1627 , he was one of the ‘ five knights ’ who applied unsuccessfully for a writ of habeas corpus . |
| 6 | Sathasivam Krishna Kumar ( " Kittu " ) , 31 , regarded as the LTTE number two and a member of its central committee , who had first arrived in the United Kingdom in October 1989 and applied unsuccessfully for political asylum there in August 1990 after the breakdown of peace talks with the Sri Lankan government , was told in early August 1991 that he had to leave the UK by Aug. 7 or face deportation , for having abused his refugee status by collecting funds and trying to procure arms . |