Example sentences of "apply for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly .
2 I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children .
3 that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market .
4 On Dec. 16 MCC applied for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States code of bankruptcy law and on Dec. 20 the UK High Court placed MCC in administration .
5 The Melrose saga began earlier this year when he was one of several players , including former Wallaby Mitchell Cox , who applied for reinstatement to play the game .
6 Geisler applied for probation for Mitchum and a further hearing was set for February .
7 When parents applied for assistance they were asked to provide general information about the family , including occupations , earnings , rent , and size of accommodation .
8 They applied for redundancy payments .
9 When he applied for immigration into Australia he had to undergo a routine medical examination .
10 " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children .
11 I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train .
12 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 .
13 I arrived in England and applied for asylum .
14 From Germany , they travelled by train to Sweden , where he applied for asylum , the first American citizen to do so since the Vietnam War .
15 On 1 December , the IDA applied for permission for an asbestos waste dump on land it owned at Curraghbinny , an exclusive residential and scenic area of Co .
16 Mr Richardson applied for outline permission to build the chalets after winning approval for a hotel and golf complex at Humbleton .
17 He applied for discovery of certain internal police reports .
18 ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’
19 When I first applied for part time training in September 1984 I was interviewed within two weeks of the birth of my first child .
20 26–12- James McDermid , shepherd at Lossit , applied for baptism of his child .
21 Before learning about our infertility , we had already planned to adopt ‘ hard-to-place ’ children , and so , with little prospect of natural children , we applied for adoption all the sooner .
22 When the firm applied for consent it was refused .
23 I applied for membership , but the day approval finally arrived , four years later , was the day we left the valley .
24 They intended , they said , to be stricter in the way they selected credit traders who applied for membership , and to distance themselves from ‘ rogue moneylenders ’ .
25 Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica .
26 Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 .
27 Switzerland applied for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank on June 6 , 1990 .
28 On July 1 Sweden applied for membership of the EC .
29 On March 18 Finland applied for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) .
30 Mr Curtin had been suspended from practice for three months in 1991 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the condition imposed by an Assistant Director of the Solicitors Complaints Bureau when Mr Curtin applied for renewal of his practising certificate was that of practising only in approved employment , as opposed to in approved partnership , which had been the condition applicable to Mr Curtin 's certificate prior to his suspension from practice .
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