Example sentences of "[been] apply to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | All over the country , polytechnics and colleges have been applying to the Privy Council for approval of their new titles . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The entry started with the statement that ‘ prejudice is an opinion without judgement ’ ( p. 351 ) : i.e. , the processes of reasoning have not been applied to the prejudiced opinion . |
4 | This idea has been applied to the African Plate which , according to some analyses of plate motions , appears to have been almost stationary with respect to the underlying asthenosphere for the past 25–35 Ma . |
5 | The correction for inflation has only been applied to the final sum . |
6 | A variety of techniques have been applied to the complex structural and stratigraphic regimes which have affected the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Southern Uplands . |
7 | The utilitarian approach , if it had been applied to the political life of India , would have led to the forcible ejection of the British on the grounds that the greatest happiness or good of the greatest number in India , namely the Indians themselves , would have resulted from it . |
8 | However , the Regional Development Officer of the housing association insisted on carrying out the same thorough appraisal of its potential that had been applied to the previous buildings . |
9 | The fine for such an offence when this rule had been applied to the original directors of the House of Industry in 1794 was £20 it had now risen to £100 . |
10 | It has also been applied to the special Ministry of Defence payment to the pre-1973 war widows . |
11 | 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 . |