Example sentences of "[be] [adv] apply to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sociologists erroneously claim scientific method can be successfully applied to human behaviour . |
| 2 | The problem is no easier with other schemes of the same kind ; accusations of chauvinism , racism , and inability to transcend the limited nineteenth-century world view can be successfully applied to them all . |
| 3 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 4 | There remains , however , considerable debate concerning how a rule might be precisely defined and how such a construct can be properly applied to the study of social behaviour . |
| 5 | Whatever its precise terms an exclusion clause designed to operate on a national basis can not be justly applied to a party active in only one part of the country and putting up no candidates elsewhere . |
| 6 | Since such rules can be optionally applied to the same basic sentence structures , they provide a linguistic basis for the notion of * In this , as in subsequent chapters , we number examples and extracts only where we need to refer to them in the text . |
| 7 | The significance of the results extends beyond Unzen , as it reinforces a volume-composition pattern found across the western United States , and suggests that Nd-isotope tracers might be generally applied to continental effusive volcanism in the effort to minimize volcanic hazards . |
| 8 | Responses to controlled hypoglycaemia induced in a laboratory setting can not be directly applied to the clinical situation . |
| 9 | The pragmatic theories we have examined leave a number of unanswered questions , and they are in need of considerable extension before they can be fruitfully applied to discourse analysis and language teaching . |
| 10 | One can be confidently applied to Middlewich in Cheshire , where early exploitation of the inland brine springs is attested by the excavation of several brine pits and quantities of briquetage . |
| 11 | This definition was used by Cohen to explain the response to youth in the 1950s and 1960s but it can be similarly applied to moral crises in the more distant past — one may refer by way of example , to the nexus of fears generated by the French Revolution , which significantly shaped the contours of ‘ Victorian ’ sexuality , or the anxieties which produced the legislative restructuring of the 1880s and 1900s , or the fears generated by the cold war in the 1950s . |
| 12 | I have been talking only about directors who own their own company but the concept of restricting earnings can often be profitably applied to other employees . |
| 13 | But the different ways in which thought can be creatively applied to both mental and practical problems are indispensable tools for student success . |
| 14 | Nuclear microscopy uses a focused MeV ion beam ( for example , 3MeV protons ) and employs a group of analytical techniques that can be simultaneously applied to a sample . |
| 15 | Can the reasoning of Lord Ellenborough C.J. in Bilbie v. Lumley , 2 East 469 , be appropriately applied to the complex legislation both primary and subordinate to which the citizen is subject in present times ? |
| 16 | For to say that entities of a certain sort do not exist is to say , in effect , that not a single entity in the world has the indicated property , or properties ; or , expressed differently , that the relevant concept can not be correctly applied to anything . |
| 17 | Could the word be accurately applied to these two apparitions ? |
| 18 | That Burgess ' model can not really be accurately applied to Nottingham because it is too rigid in its form . |
| 19 | But nothing can be shown to remain absolutely invariable over any length of time ; so how can we be certain that identity can be legitimately applied to anything ? |
| 20 | The popular slogan ‘ This we will maintain ’ , that is the union with Britain , can be equally applied to the religious and moral values the loyalists pride so much and which they see as embodied in the protestant — loyalist statelet , with its appropriate state apparatus of coercion and alternative paramilitary units . |
| 21 | We will illustrate the techniques involved by solving examples but the general principles should emerge sufficiently clearly to be readily applied to any problem . |
| 22 | However , an irregular inflection like sung would be listed , so that the lexical rule for the formation of the regular plural present tense would not be inappropriately applied to the base to give singed . |