Example sentences of "[be] apply to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bowel scintigraphy using Indium-111 labelled leucocytes has been applied to the assessment of disease extent and activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 2 | Statistical information about n-grams has been applied to the output to select a single most likely letter string result . |
| 3 | The evidence of uncertainty and equivocation in the way in which the laws of war have , or have not , been applied to the problem of nuclear weapons is plain enough . |
| 4 | ‘ The C. and A.G. shall satisfy himself that the money expended has been applied to the purpose or purposes for which the grants made by Parliament were intended to provide and that the expenditure conforms to the authority which governs it . ’ |
| 5 | It can not be claimed that even as much testing as was possible of the information retrieval systems during the Resource Centre Project has been applied to the discussion in these subsequent pages . |
| 6 | Sometimes the term has been applied to the linguistic habits of a particular writer ( " the style of Dickens , of Proust " , etc ) ; at other times it has been applied to the way language is used in a particular genre , period , school of writing , or some combination of these : " epistolary style " , " early eighteenth-century style " , " euphuistic style " , " the style of Victorian novels " , etc . |
| 7 | It does not require that contests be pairwise , and is not confined to fighting behaviour ; it has been applied to the evolution of the sex ratio , of dispersal , of growth strategies in plants , and so on . |
| 8 | Then working to a computer-generated plan , he lays the tiles dry , later repositioning them after adhesive has been applied to the floor . |
| 9 | The term ‘ twist ’ implies that a degree of torque has been applied to the line during manufacture . |
| 10 | Often this tag has been applied to the programme , but never , ever , has it held a vestige of truth . |
| 11 | Calculations have been applied to the study of : |
| 12 | In more recent years , as understanding of platelet physiology has increased , newer tests have been applied to the study of platelets from diabetic subjects which may be more relevant to platelet function in vivo . |
| 13 | This technique has been applied to the study of platelet function in diabetic subjects ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | Be that as it may , the general style of thinking about evolution has been applied to the study of animal communication in ways that suggest that all activities directed by one individual towards another are manipulative . |
| 15 | The secondary convection model has been applied to the Gulf of Suez at the northern end of the Red Sea . |
| 16 | A range of methods have been applied to the recognition of printed characters , or unconnected handwriting , especially for oriental alphabets as well as for English . |
| 17 | A variety of fluorescent , peroxidase-labelled , or radiolabelled , antibodies , lectins and other ligands have been applied to the mouse embryo in studies of the organization , composition and function of cells at different stages ( for comprehensive reviews see 36–39 ) . |
| 18 | The Company 's own lettering had not yet been applied to the rocker panels . |
| 19 | The same motto could have been applied to the meeting itself . |
| 20 | The construct theory of Kelly ( 1955 ) ( see pp. 61–2 ) has been applied to the family by Proctor ( 1981 ) who proposed a model of family functioning based upon shared constructs . |
| 21 | More recently , this phenomenon has been applied to the attempt to rescue the US hostages in Iran in April 1980 . |
| 22 | The software has been applied to the understanding of problems relating to the development of porosity in hydrocarbon reservoirs and the behaviour of rocks to be used for radioactive-waste repositories . |
| 23 | In recent years , TL has increasingly been applied to the dating of terrestrial sediments . |
| 24 | Executed in the artist 's late , expressionistic manner , the paint has been applied to the canvas with a palette knife , brush and finger or thumb covered with a rag . |
| 25 | Political pressure has been applied to the Colony 's government , he said . |
| 26 | The centre has implemented effective systems for ensuring that consistent standards are applied to the evaluation of the candidates ' work and that the standards comply with those specified in the unit/model . |
| 27 | Unpublished works include Latin translations of an astrological text by Benjamin Worsley [ q.v. ] ( c .1657 ) and Kinckhuysen 's textbook on algebra ( c .1669 ) , and versions of a treatise on music theory in which logarithms are applied to the division of the musical scale ( c .1672 ) . |
| 28 | Successive washes of burnt umber mixed with Prussian blue are applied to the top of the composition and pulled down , blotting out the light sections and leaving the shadows to create their own shapes . |
| 29 | Successive washes of burnt umber mixed with Prussian blue are applied to the top of the composition and pulled down , blotting out the light sections and leaving the shadows to create their own shapes . |
| 30 | The key term here is ‘ control ’ whose biological and political connotations are applied to the ordering of Pynchon 's text . |