Example sentences of "[adv] [be] applied to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 2 | He argues that the ‘ local state ’ is not simply the national state writ small , and that a general theory of the state can not be applied to the local level . |
| 3 | The biblical account of Adam naming the world can easily be applied to the mass media . |
| 4 | The word may also be applied to the small cursive script developed from the uncial . |
| 5 | These criticisms of Hobhouse might , with little modification , also be applied to the general movements we have examined . |
| 6 | E. A. Freeman 's description of Dalmatia as ‘ a Slavonic land with an Italian fringe ’ refers to the cultural geography of the Adriatic coastlands , but it might also be applied to the physical geography ( as ‘ a Dinaric land with a Mediterranean fringe ’ ) . |
| 7 | If we are smoothing with repeated medians , the appropriate transformation can simply be applied to the smoothed values and new residuals calculated . |
| 8 | These grammars can then be applied to the coded corpus , with the intention of identifying the premodifiers , kernel and postmodifiers of each definition . |