Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] applied to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 2 | Experimental tests of the Hashin-Shtrikman and Hill-Walpole bounds , which lie , of course , within the Voigt and Reuss bounds do not appear to have been made for single polymer systems but , as discussed later in this chapter , they have been applied to a styrene-butadiene-styrene system and to a composite of glass beads and epoxy resin ( Arridge & Crowson 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Like all broad formulations of principle , the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher had to be worked out in detail by later decisions , and it has been applied to a remarkable variety of things . |
| 9 | First , it has been applied to discretionary decisions which could not , whether right or wrong , be classified as of the ‘ red hair type . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |