Example sentences of "apply for " in BNC.

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1 I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back .
2 I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized
3 Reluctantly , Scottie had to be left in kennels in Ostend while her family applied for her entry papers in England .
4 They offered not only to plant a tree in my name , if I applied for a policy , but also the choice of a free radio alarm clock or a telephone .
5 The offer coincided with a move to separate the Cheltenham Schools of Architecture and Art , with which he disagreed , so he applied for the post and succeeded despite his now apparent and debilitating illness .
6 Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio .
7 He surprised the nation with the announcement , made in a radio and television broadcast on Saturday night , that his government has refused registration to any of the 13 political associations that applied for it .
8 In 1923 Van Der Meulen applied for the post of consul there and was selected for a three-year training in Arabic and Islam by the great Leiden Arabist , Snouck Hurgronje .
9 When the appellant received notice of the order , he applied for the order to be set aside on the grounds that he had no notice of the proceedings and had nothing to do with it .
10 Appeals : If planning permission is refused , the person who applied for it can ask the Department of the Environment to reconsider the decision .
11 He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven .
12 He applied for , and won , several scholarships , but was particularly attracted to a scholarship in oil engineering that was on offer from Birmingham University .
13 Her confidence and conviction that she was somebody special served her well when she applied for the UN job .
14 This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries .
15 On the advice of a friend , she applied for and got a freelance job with the BBC in Plymouth .
16 I arrived in England and applied for asylum .
17 Millions who applied for the minimum 100 shares in the great water sell-off are likely today to be told their applications are being met in full despite a huge oversubcription to the £5.24billion privatisation .
18 But when Norway and Austria ( the schilling is pegged to the D-mark ) applied for associate membership last year , they got a cool reception .
19 Nigel wondered if any film star would be discerning enough to employ him if he applied for a chauffeur 's job .
20 Mr Baker said many of the 45,000 people who applied for refugee status in Britain last year were bogus .
21 In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest .
22 In the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday , a banking syndicate headed by HongkongBank Australia applied for a trustee to be appointed after Mr Bond , 53 , failed to repay about £110 million arising from a personal guarantee he gave on a loan to his former Greenvale nickel project .
23 I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train .
24 So I applied for my discharge and it was granted .
25 I applied for leave , and departed from Victoria Station on 15 September 1946 , on the famous Golden Arrow train , which on the other side of the Channel became the Flèche d'or .
26 On arrival he applied for a passport , but neither the French , the Austrian or the Prussian embassies were willing to provide one and he was ultimately obliged to travel disguised , on a Swiss passport .
27 He applied for an MRC scholarship in clinical research at the Gustave-Roussy after seeing the application papers in a friend 's office .
28 BSB 's original backers , who applied for and won the contract to broadcast from 31° West , signed to use MAC .
29 We applied for a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund on the basis that its support alone could save the church .
30 After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ .
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