Example sentences of "could be applied [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It assumed that models of rehabilitation valuing people through work , which had been established at such hospitals at Netherne , could be applied for an indefinite period with all patients being potential benefactors . |
| 2 | This version of a marketable discharge licence process employs a national airshed , but it could be applied at a state or local level and for other pollutants in the future . |
| 3 | On rare occasions , too , handcuffs could be applied as a punishment . |
| 4 | He emphasized that peace had to be preserved for the entire human race and not for particular sections of it , pointing out that the word ‘ civilization ’ could be applied to a wide diversity of values . |
| 5 | The legislation 's loose definition of a ‘ British ’ film , as one made by a British company in a British studio using a certain percentage of British crew , could be applied to a picture made by a British subsidiary of a US major , using an American director , writer and key cast . |
| 6 | A difficulty is that Mercier 's brushwork , and an essential freedom in his style , does not lend itself to the same kind of minute scrutiny that could be applied to a painter like Zoffany . |
| 7 | HCIMA 's technical Advisory Group ( TAG ) published a technical brief entitled BS5750 — Quality system Guidelines , designed to give an overview of British Standards ( BS ) 5750 and suggest how it could be applied to a hotel and catering operation . |
| 8 | If a peace treaty were signed within the near future the danger was that Soviet pressure could be applied against a demilitarised Japan . |