Example sentences of "be applied to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As that is the political sphere given to the health service — it is a public service accountable through my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to the House — the management of the health service has set out clearly how that principle should be applied to the management of ECRs .
2 Science is a unity , and the test of simplicity should really be applied to the whole of science .
3 Assuming that the proportion of visits done in the sample between 2300 and 0700 can be applied to the whole of Berkshire , it becomes possible to estimate the number of night visits which would have been claimable by using the definition of a night visit which applied before April 1990 .
4 When hanging these wallcoverings it is important to use the paste recommended by the manufacturer , and to check whether the paste should be applied to the back of the material or to the wall .
5 Hence the pull-out torque for one-phase.on operation of the three.phase motor is simply the average of 7A over this interval : Similar methods can be applied to the calculation of pull-out torque for other excitation schemes .
6 By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother .
7 BY SUGGESTING that women have a monopoly on being civilised , does Tony Parsons not open the door for double standards of judgment to be applied to the behaviour of women and men ?
8 This means that , if the conditions are all true in some state , then the operator called action can be applied to the state , and what is more , this operator may help the search .
9 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 .
10 Some limit must be applied to the council tax levied on any household as a proportion of income , and a figure of say 5 per cent might well be appropriate .
11 To suggest that a 60% allowance should be applied to the Structure Plan target of 2,500 in the period 1991 to 1996 to calculate a total housing land supply for the five year period is not valid .
12 We could specify in which hand the draw-sheet is to be held , which arm the nurse is to use to support the patient , the degree of tension to be applied to the draw-sheet to make it taut and smooth .
13 Here , following Musgrave and Musgrave ( 1989 ) , our objective is to show how this theory can be applied to the question of the optimum size of local authorities .
14 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 ) .
15 It would also appear that the rule applies to realty and could be applied to the builder of a house and possibly a local authority building inspector .
16 Some pressure must also be applied to the top of the assembly to keep them from lifting apart .
17 By 1987 , the Home Office Research and Planning Unit Programme was indicating , ‘ now that resources are more constrained , more stringent criteria of relevance must be applied to the funding of research for the Home Office ’ .
18 The principle just formulated can quite obviously be applied to the infinitive of purpose : ( 33 ) He struggled to get free .
19 As a temporary measure ( especially useful with burst lead pipe ) , there are resin filler products which can be applied to the pipe to stem the flow of water , some of which will withstand mains pressure almost immediately .
20 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 .
21 Therefore , and to counteract this possibility , a good sprinkling of Jeyes Fluid should be applied to the floor of the hutch after cleaning out and before the new straw and shavings are added .
22 This can be applied to the case of marriage , where there will of course be usually sanctions of varying degrees against behaviours that threaten marriage , and sexual activity outside marriage may be disapproved of , but this does not imply that merely not engaging in marriage is disapproved of , nor that an unmarried condition is sanctioned .
23 It is necessary , in my judgment , to look at the facts somewhat closely to see what amounts to a discharge and how far the reasoning can be applied to the case , not of joint and several debtors , but of several debtors alone , albeit all liable for the same debt .
24 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 :
25 Three forms of data base construction can be applied to the handling of design information ; these are known as hierarchical , network and relational .
26 Once admitted , however , the principle could then also be applied to the Magyar treatment of the Croats , the Polish of Ruthenians , etc .
27 The Law can also be applied to the depth dimension , with a fulcrum in the middle ground .
28 A similar procedure may be applied to the expansion of each of the definition words , to determine the coverage of the 2nd level expansion , and the relative contributions of the two levels can then be compared .
29 £4,000 would be applied to the building and the rest to the endowment ; the builder had received £2,000 on account .
30 An important case laying down principles which can be applied to the employer/employee relationship was Faccenda Chicken Ltd. v Fowler [ 1986 ] .
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