Example sentences of "[vb -s] been apply to " in BNC.

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1 But a similar vulgarizing process has been applied to Lacan 's own ideas , first in France , and then in the English-speaking world .
2 Where these projections of the formerly open central bay of the building are not glazed , they are finished in dark-stained timber , a treatment that has been applied to all new external and internal timberwork and is a conventional finish for the external woodwork of many local farm buildings .
3 It is quite true that Corbett has been applied to situations outside marriage , eg. , the alteration of birth certificates , unfair dismissal ( White v.
4 This technique has been applied to the study of platelet function in diabetic subjects ( Jones et al , 1985 ) .
5 The method has been applied to colliding wave problems by Ernst , García-Díaz and Hauser ( 1988 ) ( see also Ernst , 1988 ) , and a class of new colliding wave solutions has been obtained .
6 Back in January , at the beginning of the hearing , Baker said ‘ No plutonium produced in CEGB reactors has been applied to weapons use either in the UK or elsewhere and it is the policy of the government and of the CEGB that this situation should continue . ’
7 One of the commoner of these difficulties is obesity and some people are so fat that the term ‘ superobese ’ has been applied to them .
8 The term ‘ twist ’ implies that a degree of torque has been applied to the line during manufacture .
9 It introduced entirely new aerodynamic principles to kiting which we shall describe under ‘ Foils ’ later , and because of its efficiency , it has been applied to power-kiting with some astonishing results , not least being measured speeds approaching 195km/h ( 120mph ) in horizontal flight .
10 This form of analysis has been applied to various periods during the industrial revolution and to more modern developments .
11 This may allow a lower overall value to be negotiated in an area where a premium has been applied to smaller occupations .
12 In a very different context from California this same strategy has been applied to good effect .
13 The construct theory of Kelly ( 1955 ) ( see pp. 61–2 ) has been applied to the family by Proctor ( 1981 ) who proposed a model of family functioning based upon shared constructs .
14 The software has been applied to the understanding of problems relating to the development of porosity in hydrocarbon reservoirs and the behaviour of rocks to be used for radioactive-waste repositories .
15 A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells .
16 This principle is a quite general one that has been applied to several ‘ dimensions ’ of personality .
17 The basic strategy of reusing information to create new information is well accepted and has been applied to writing .
18 Statistical information about n-grams has been applied to the output to select a single most likely letter string result .
19 In many European countries a similar method of ‘ criteria targeting ’ has been applied to schools .
20 It does not require that contests be pairwise , and is not confined to fighting behaviour ; it has been applied to the evolution of the sex ratio , of dispersal , of growth strategies in plants , and so on .
21 Feminist psychology 's combinatory approach has been applied to experimental design as well .
22 Executed in the artist 's late , expressionistic manner , the paint has been applied to the canvas with a palette knife , brush and finger or thumb covered with a rag .
23 It has been applied to any influence one person may exert upon another , whether in speech or writing , whether by overt physical interference , whether directly in face-to-face confrontation , or anonymously through the links and influences of an institution .
24 More recently , this phenomenon has been applied to the attempt to rescue the US hostages in Iran in April 1980 .
25 After the glue has been applied to both edges of each segment and they are assembled , the banding clamp is dropped down over the assembly and tightened until the joints close up tightly .
26 It can not be claimed that even as much testing as was possible of the information retrieval systems during the Resource Centre Project has been applied to the discussion in these subsequent pages .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 The written decision is usually relatively brief , though it must be sufficiently full and complete that the claimant can tell what facts have been accepted and rejected , the reasons for the rejection of any evidence and how the law has been applied to the facts as found .
30 Often this tag has been applied to the programme , but never , ever , has it held a vestige of truth .
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