Example sentences of "[adv] [be] apply to the " in BNC.

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1 The correction for inflation has only been applied to the final sum .
2 The principle just formulated can quite obviously be applied to the infinitive of purpose : ( 33 ) He struggled to get free .
3 National rules in the member states where services are provided can only be applied to the extent that the public interest requires it , and after due account is taken of the national rules applied to the company in the member state of establishment .
4 It helps a great deal to have a large number of clear , separate concepts , ideas that can quickly and easily be applied to the sometimes confusing variety of animal actions we observe when we sit down to watch other species .
5 Both are referring specifically to the woman 's role in personal relationships , but it seems to me that their comments could just as easily be applied to the role of children in relation to adults .
6 The biblical account of Adam naming the world can easily be applied to the mass media .
7 Naturphilosophie was already being applied to the unity of type in the organic world by Lorenz Oken ( 1779–1851 ) and others .
8 They say that search is monotonic if , whenever two operators can be applied to a state , either can still be applied to the state produced by the other .
9 The ethic of abstinence and effort could hardly be applied to the success of the American millionaires of the 1860s and 1870s , or even to the wealthy manufacturer , retired to a life of country-house leisure , still less to his rentier relatives ; to those whose ideal was , in Ruskin 's words :
10 It has also been applied to the special Ministry of Defence payment to the pre-1973 war widows .
11 The Law can also be applied to the depth dimension , with a fulcrum in the middle ground .
12 Ashby 's warnings of the dangers of professionals , although apparently directed against those in extra-mural departments , could also be applied to the staff of the WEA .
13 Nevertheless , its point about the evidence for God 's goodness — that it is not compelling and that , indeed , there may be moments when it appears that the facts of life may not be reconciled with a good Creator at all — might also be applied to the evidence for God 's existence .
14 Once admitted , however , the principle could then also be applied to the Magyar treatment of the Croats , the Polish of Ruthenians , etc .
15 The word may also be applied to the small cursive script developed from the uncial .
16 In addition to , secondary prevention could also be applied to the alleviation of social and psychological difficulties which might lead to attempts .
17 These criticisms of Hobhouse might , with little modification , also be applied to the general movements we have examined .
18 Could such a scientific , ‘ rational ’ approach also be applied to the analysis of humans ' social worlds , their relationships , experiences and behaviour within it' ?
19 Some pressure must also be applied to the top of the assembly to keep them from lifting apart .
20 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 ’ ) .
21 But the basic concept can also be applied to the establishment of networks within large organizations .
22 Many of the points which are made concerning alphabetical indexes in Chapters 15 , 16 and 17 may also be applied to the construction of indexes to classification schemes .
23 To get a true feeling for the plan it should also be applied to the Principal because although you have been paying a fixed amount in each month the value of this has also decreased due to inflation .
24 How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers .
25 Genetic engineering is also being applied to the production of new crop strains and agents , such as viruses , that can protect existing crops from pests and frost .
26 Forestry has now been applied to the upper slopes ( Johnson would have been pleased ) , and in sunshine the views of the distant coast sparkle to the north-west .
27 Science is a unity , and the test of simplicity should really be applied to the whole of science .
28 However it does mean that the additional information can be removed from the look-up tree , which in turn means that a compression method can now be applied to the tree , such as utilising a directed acyclic word graph ( section 3.2.5 and section 3.3.3 ) .
29 April 13th ) is , I suppose , typical of the modish caricature of realpolitik now being applied to the Middle East .
30 The powerful techniques of molecular biology are now being applied to the classical problems of embryonic development that were studied by an older generation of biologists .
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