Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] applied to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The condition is a predicate which is true of just those states N that the action can be applied to . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is an excellent example of the way in which thorough research methodology can be applied to complex human experience and provide useful and thought-provoking results . |
| 5 | The tables on the South side of the Library are unsuitable for the consultation of colour illustrated books , and for leather bound books , until UV screening can be applied to the windows . |
| 6 | True ‘ living fossils ’ are really rather rare , and the term can be applied to both simple and highly complex organisms that have outlived the time when the earth was populated with many more of their kind . |
| 7 | Rider Haggard 's heroine ( if such a general term can be applied to her ) is introduced in terms that were to become very familiar in his fiction , as a fabled white goddess-figure ruling over an unknown tribal kingdom in unexplored Central Africa . |
| 8 | Though the doll motif can be applied to several different characters , its central meaning is a representation of that which Lawrence dislikes in relationships between men and women . |
| 9 | When minimum AC feedthrough is needed in , for example , a suppressed-carrier modulator , a +-30MV trim voltage can be applied to the X or Y input . |
| 10 | In the United Kingdom , the term deregulation can be applied to : |
| 11 | If the same anticorrelation can be applied to the longer-term decline in the Sun 's diameter , it may provide a clue to the dearth of sunspots during the height of the Little Ice Age , 300 years ago . |
| 12 | While the main purpose of this article is to deal with the larger of the Cichlasoma species , advice on the basics of establishing a cichlid community can be applied to any of the species , even the smallest ones . |
| 13 | Potassium-argon dating can be applied to volcanic rocks such as lavas and tuffs and although difficult to measure the decay , it attains its maximum usefulness in the Middle and Early Pleistocene and can be used for a range greater than 20,000 years . |
| 14 | This model of internal marketing can be applied to schools through encouraging teachers to see themselves as customers . |
| 15 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 16 | Gandhi , as we have seen , sees no superiority in conceiving of God in impersonal rather than personal terms so it is difficult to see how the traditional distinction between higher and lower levels of truth can be applied to him . |
| 17 | There is a large literature on tax design in market economies , and a major part of the research will consist of investigating the extent to which this body of knowledge can be applied to the particular circumstances of Czechoslovakia . |
| 18 | When a flow is self-preserving , a description of the turbulent motion developed from measurements at one station can be applied to the whole flow . |
| 19 | A L.C tincture can be applied to all sorts of stings and bites . |
| 20 | This version of the story of the development of the state 's role in social welfare can be applied to a number of industrialized nations-to the United States , to most of the other countries of western and northern Europe and to Australasia — as much as to Britain . |
| 21 | Thirdly , autonomy at any rate can be applied to an individual academic . |
| 22 | This simplified approach to starting rate can be applied to motors with any step length , excitation scheme and load . |
| 23 | A similar argument can be applied to urine production except that the emphasis , would be on fluid intake . |
| 24 | A somewhat similar argument can be applied to the oscillator stage , TR1 , except for two important additional considerations . |
| 25 | Much the same comment can be applied to comic crime . |
| 26 | This new ESRC project will see how the theory can be applied to problems in criminology , and extended to cover special features of criminological data . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Although this waveform detection technique has been discussed with particular reference to a three.phase variable.reluctance motor , it should be apparent that the method can be applied to any motor in which the motional voltage influences the current waveform . |
| 29 | The resulting method can be applied to any small area to measure either number of jobs accessible to people living there , or numbers of workers to whom jobs are accessible . |
| 30 | The concept of planning can be applied to a wide range of activities . |