Example sentences of "[was/were] apply to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was no better reflected than in his creation of A Distant Drummer with its horrific theme of man 's inhumanity to man , where ritual warlike movements were applied to the jack-booted soldiers of Nazi Germany . |
| 2 | The resources of many pharmaceutical firms were applied to the search for new moulds and other micro-organisms . |
| 3 | Configurational restraints based on those of Reinhart ( 1983 ) were applied to the set of candidates delivered by the preceding stage . |
| 4 | Similar principles were applied to the assessment of each case . |
| 5 | If these measures were applied to the country as a whole , it is conservatively estimated that a reduction of over 10,000 in jury accidents could be achieved every year . |
| 6 | Conservative philosophy has relied on competition to improve efficiency in other areas of the economy and the same principles were applied to the NHS . |
| 7 | These contrasted the Western models with the sorts of restrictions that could and were applied to the media in other political systems : the media were not free to publish , the expression of opinion was controlled , the Party/government could dictate the content of the media , and the essential freedoms associated with the Western models were obviously absent . |
| 8 | FIG. 3 Five conditions were applied to the tomato seedlings . |
| 9 | The deceased then became " he who has gone to his Ka " , which in Ptolemaic times were applied to the god and the king and which wee enumerated as strength , might , prosperity , food , veneration , eternity , radiance , glory , fame , magic , authority , sight , hearing , and perception . |
| 10 | How do these different ways of understanding contemporary racism relate to the ideologies of reading which were applied to the study texts ? |
| 11 | As to gold , sheets of the metal were applied to the large shale buttons found with prestigious burials under a group of round barrows in Wessex . |
| 12 | We were ( unusually ) blessed with good weather over this period and the following weekend three coats of G4 were applied to the interior walls of the new pond and the header pools . |
| 13 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 14 | A change of representation is necessary , though , in the case of a circular flock of starlings ; for if the basic clustering algorithm were applied to the cartesian coordinates of the birds , then the information that they are in a circle would be lost . |
| 15 | Such models were applied to the car market by several authors in the 1960s and early 1970s ; this research is intended to determine whether the principle can still be usefully applied in forecasting the size of the market . |
| 16 | He has found in a three-year programme that tuber size and yield increased the most when both foliar phosphate and basal fertiliser phosphate were applied to the plants . |
| 17 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 18 | If this kind of picture were to apply to the London Caribbean community , we should expect to find a pattern where Creole was used between members of the first generation and by them to their children . |
| 19 | Eliot discussed the shrunken sense in which ‘ culture ’ was applied to the arts , culture centring on Paris , London , and more recently New York . |
| 20 | A bituminous primer was applied to the existing asphalt covering , which was left in position to form a vapour check layer , before layering the insulation and then the finish was provided by a cap sheet of Vulcanite Tribond 350 elastomeric , white mineral . |
| 21 | Some girls , who worked in a factory where luminous radioactive paint was applied to the dials of watches , developed necrosis of the jaw and fatal anaemia . |
| 22 | The experimenters found , however , that when the guinea-pig lymph nodes were stretched for 100 seconds , and a related statistical method ( transient response frequency characteristics analysis ) was applied to the resulting stretch movement , three rhythmic components could be identified . |
| 23 | Mousse was applied to the hair to give body and firmness . |
| 24 | Suzanne first gave Santa an exfoliating body scrub , then seaweed gel was applied to the Claus tum , hips and legs . |
| 25 | The statutory lettering and ‘ Type J/2 ’ were in white and at a later date the title ‘ SouthmeT ’ was applied to the centre of the side panel . |
| 26 | A brake was applied to the speed of reform . |
| 27 | Styling gel was applied to the ends which were then finished with a twist . |
| 28 | A similar scumble of white was applied to the heel of one shoe where it too was curved and , for good measure , a few coloured highlights were added along the edges of the strap loops , where the leather 's surface was uneven . |
| 29 | A checklist of predictors was applied to the maternity notes of all non-Asian women who had delivered a child under consultant care when they were discharged from the maternity unit . |
| 30 | Substrate was applied to the sections and incubated for 3–5min , resulting in a brown reaction product . |