Example sentences of "have been applied to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In a very different context from California this same strategy has been applied to good effect .
2 Although originally presented as a theory of personality , PCT has been applied to wider areas such as politics ( Fransella and Bannister , 1967 ) architecture ( Glanville , 1977 ) , maps ( Stringer , 1974 ) , film ( Carver , 1967 ) , painting ( O'Hare and Gordon , 1976 ; Mendoza and Thomas , 1972 ) and music ( Ward , 1985 ) .
3 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 .
4 With the exception of the higher rate of SSP to which I have already referred , this has been applied to all the relevant main benefits rates — notably retirement pensions , war pensions , widows ' pensions , invalidity benefit , severe disablement allowance , the disability living allowance rates equivalent to the present mobility and attendance allowances , invalid care allowance , industrial injuries benefits , and the national insurance benefits for unemployment , sickness and maternity .
5 The method was used first by Kröner ( 1958 ) for the elastic moduli of cubic polycrystals and has been applied to composite materials by Hill , Walpole and many others [ see , for example , Laws & McLaughlin ( 1978 ) for references ] .
6 This form of analysis has been applied to various periods during the industrial revolution and to more modern developments .
7 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 .
8 First , it has been applied to discretionary decisions which could not , whether right or wrong , be classified as of the ‘ red hair type . ’
9 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 .
10 Flows of people from metropolitan to non-metropolitan areas have been observed in a number of developed countries in recent years , and the term ‘ counter-urbanization ’ has been applied to this process ( Berry 1976 ; Bryant et al .
11 This principle is a quite general one that has been applied to several ‘ dimensions ’ of personality .
12 One favoured process is known as back-arc spreading and this has been applied to several such basins .
13 The APT has been applied to British data by Diacogiannis , ; who used 302 monthly observations for 200 securities between November 1956 and December 1981 .
14 Feminist psychology 's combinatory approach has been applied to experimental design as well .
15 A similar approach has been applied to marine records of explosive eruptions in the Bay of Naples .
16 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 .
17 This may allow a lower overall value to be negotiated in an area where a premium has been applied to smaller occupations .
18 There is , to my mind , no doubt at all but that the Turnbull & Co. v. Duval [ 1902 ] A.C. 429 line of cases demonstrates a treatment of wives who have given security to support their husband 's debts more tender than that which would have been applied to other third party sureties .
19 There were two decisions which were binding where the rule of privilege had been applied to copied documents : The Palermo ( 1883 ) 9 PD 6 , and Watson v Cammel Laird & Co ( Shipbuilders and Engineers ) Ltd ( 1959 ) 1 WLR 702 .
20 Here , it seemed , some labour had been applied to physical comforts , although there was little evidence of efficient housekeeping .
21 Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants .
22 In SPAR , as we saw earlier , no common sense inference is carried out until the focusing rules ( with sortal constraints ) have been applied to all anaphors , and configurational constraints have been applied .
23 Stimulated Raman scattering in a plasma has been investigated in terms of forward scattering , shock waves and ( recently ) backward scattering , and the results have been applied to high-velocity features of water masers .
24 Good Laboratory Practice ( GLP ) principles have been applied to many R & D establishments since their introduction by the Food and Drug Administration in the US .
25 Remote sensing ( air and spaceborne ) techniques have been applied to various areas of Britain .
26 Such approaches have been applied to cursive words of English ( Frishkopf and Harmon 1961 ; Harmon , 1962b ; Earnest , 1962 ; Farag , 1979 ; Brown and Ganapathy , 1980 ) , but to achieve any degree of accuracy the vocabulary which can be recognised is very small .
27 In this Chapter I shall begin by briefly considering the ( rather wide ) range of interference theories that have been applied to latent inhibition .
28 Techniques analogous to those used in the study of the brain have been applied to these systems and it can be quite instructive to compare the way in which people have approached these non-neural systems with these methods with the way they go about studying the central nervous system .
29 Quantitative methods have been applied to social developments not only at the centre but in individual provinces , towns and villages .
30 Biological explanations of fertility based on principles of maximizing a broadly defined reproductive success ( Wilson 1975 ) have been useful in non-human species and have been applied to human populations with natural fertility ( Borgerhoff-Mulder 1987 ) , in an attempt to relate reproductive success with the resources available to women .
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