Example sentences of "applicable to " in BNC.

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1 The examples are not always abstract ballets , because the three aspects described above are applicable to most choreography if music and dance are to be equal partners in a ballet .
2 which were and still are a display of dances that may or may not be applicable to the plot .
3 For the purpose of a choreographic grammar the word ‘ impetus ’ can be interpreted in three ways ali of which are applicable to the design .
4 ‘ The only qualifications they would need would be common sense , a judicial temperament and an elementary knowledge of the limited aspects of the law which are applicable to such disputes , ’ Lord Donaldson said .
5 Faith and Reason : We know only that God is a mystery : In the fourth article in our series on the mutability of God , Herbert McCabe OP argues that neither change nor stasis are applicable to God 's ‘ human ’ suffering
6 As Britain 's only national pop music station at present , Radio 1 is most likely to interest aspiring rock and pop musicians , so I will explain its workings and policies in some detail ( although much of what is said about Radio 1 will also be applicable to Radio 2 ) .
7 I shall be watching the practical results with interest to see what might be applicable to our work in the Duchy of Cornwall , for I am sure that there will be lessons that we can learn .
8 Every song on the album contains something of my own experience over the last year but the words are applicable to everyone . ’
9 Unfortunately , IPC as proposed is applicable to only a relatively small number of pollutants .
10 Malebranche had argued , moreover , that the argument from the relativity of perception was just as applicable to primary qualities such as extension and motion : what looks small to me will seem large to a mite ; some movements may be too slow for the human eye to detect .
11 But the same rules as before are applicable to a mortgagee who takes possession , and to a mortgagor who is in possession .
12 For instance , the rule of contributory negligence applicable to collisions at sea differed from that established by the common law of tort .
13 Moreover , even at common law a lease which ought to be made by deed but is not will not completely fail of effect , if possession is taken and rent paid under it ; the tenant will be treated as tenant from year to year upon the terms of the lease so far as they are applicable to such a tenancy .
14 The income of a trust is liable to income tax at the rate applicable to the beneficiary to whom the income is paid .
15 Most recently the Law Commission in 1989 recommended replacement of the dual system of trusts for sale and Settled Land Act settlements by a new trust machinery applicable to all trusts of land .
16 A corporation can not be made bankrupt ; but a company formed under the Companies Act 1985 or similar earlier Acts can be wound up , and its property distributed , according to rules similar to those applicable to bankruptcy .
17 As Wordsworth wrote , ‘ Nothing was more difficult for me in childhood than to admit the notion of death as a state applicable to my own being …
18 Would it not be preferable to broaden the defence of diminished responsibility so as to convert it into a defence of extreme emotional disturbance , applicable to both sexes ?
19 In Seymour the House of Lords seemed to be principally concerned with manslaughter committed with a motor vehicle , but subsequent cases establish that the test of ‘ obvious and serious risk of physical injury to some person ’ is applicable to offences using different methods , such as fire .
20 Some preventive rules , together with endangerment offences , can be seen in a variety of other situations , but nowhere is there such a detailed and fairly widely known set of standards as that applicable to drivers on the roads .
21 Its central belief , in the wisdom of the marketplace , was less than immediately applicable to the running of Kew Gardens or the British Museum .
22 The theorem is applicable to polygons whose constituent triangles share the above properties .
23 In 1896 , as a 21 year old French medical student preparing a thesis for his MD degree , Ernest Augustin Clement Duchesne unmistakably demonstrated the antibacterial action of Penicillium ( see Scientific American , November 1978 ) and recommended that further research might lead to new developments that could prove directly applicable to prophylactic hygiene and therapy .
24 There is now a wide variety of special hardware and software for handicapped people , much of it designed to work with the BBC , Archimedes and IBM PC-compatible computers commonly used in schools , though it is equally applicable to adults .
25 Although these technical advances will not significantly alter the dominant influence of climate on the length of the growing season or on the difficulty of harvesting crops in the hills , the ideas on which they are based seem to be relevant and applicable to a wide range of hill environments and can accommodate many of the regional variations in farming practice .
26 He could not accept that Christ 's Atonement was not in some sense , applicable to the entire human race .
27 While these shifts in emphasis have special relevance for countries in the less developed regions of the world , they are also applicable to the more developed countries .
28 While we do not suggest that they are applicable to or practicable in other countries , we believe that they have features that are worthy of consideration elsewhere .
29 Cognitive therapy has sometimes been accused of being only applicable to the ‘ intellectual ’ client .
30 Some of the conclusions from this literature do seem applicable to our topic , and they will be considered at the end of this section .
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