Example sentences of "[being] apply to " in BNC.

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1 Probably Serious , who not only stars in the film , but directed , wrote , produced and edited it too , would not mind the description being applied to himself .
2 Assuming the Daventry nuns have been subject only to the same controls being applied to all other British egg producers , the protest by the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association ( Ukepra ) , the only organisation within the UK egg industry not represented among BEIC members , is potentially damaging both to egg consumers and to egg producers .
3 Probably Yahoo Serious , who not only stars in the film , but directed , wrote , produced and edited it too , would not mind the description being applied to himself .
4 April 13th ) is , I suppose , typical of the modish caricature of realpolitik now being applied to the Middle East .
5 ‘ The problem is that neither of the two new systems being applied to our urban and rural services is suitable in the case of these long lengths of medium-use track , ’ says David Wilkinson , Regional Railways ' signalling and telecommunications engineer .
6 The principles of the Citizen 's Charter are being applied to our legal system .
7 Integrating some of the Public Schools in the way proposed would eventually cost about £12m. each year , and £6.1m. in the short term : these plans would now be in open competition with the proposals of the Newsom and Plowden Reports , at a time when severe economies were being applied to public expenditure .
8 The powerful techniques of molecular biology are now being applied to the classical problems of embryonic development that were studied by an older generation of biologists .
9 The situation was extremely complex because of the different pricing systems being applied to gas according to supply source and age ( i.e. when the gas was discovered ) .
10 Another recent innovation is that of biotechnology , which involves the use of organisms ( especially bacteria ) in industrial and technological processes and which is being applied to a variety of environmental management problems such as waste treatment .
11 Genetic engineering is also being applied to the production of new crop strains and agents , such as viruses , that can protect existing crops from pests and frost .
12 Increasingly , environmental biotechnology is being heralded as a means of controlling and improving environmental quality and it is also being applied to mineral extraction and resource recycling .
13 The reader should note the analogy ( similarity ) to the domestic funds flow concept explained in Chapter 1 , now it is being applied to the international economy .
14 Influential advocates of existing religions have persistently resisted the use of reason being applied to the word ‘ 'god ’ , and have thus inevitably ensured the ultimate failure of those religions .
15 The 5th generation — Expert Systems — must be seen as being applied to the first four generations of Maintenance but at the same time trying to integrate them as well .
16 Pin 3 waveforms are inverted before being applied to the switching transistor ( TR1 ) .
17 Chairman Howard Wilkinson said : ‘ There is a strong feeling among managers and players that rules applying to them are not being applied to other people , namely supporters around the dug-outs .
18 A computational model of this type that was initially developed for shape-perception is now being applied to the control of bodily movement .
19 A typical response was , Pressure is being applied to consultants to increase their workload , be involved in management , accept financial responsibility , and give time for audit .
20 A cellulose-based paste is being applied to the gypsum deposits followed by a micro-sanding with fine alumina powder .
21 The negative attributes of old age at an individual level were , for the first time , being applied to the population as a whole .
22 In this text , which is aimed at senior undergraduate students of engineering , the subject of matrices is described and developed before being applied to some of the problems of engineering dynamics .
23 The regulatory enforcement agent in routine cases adopts a compliance strategy which follows a serial pattern , a loosely structured but none the less organized process relying heavily upon negotiated conformity , with a gradual increase in pressure being applied to the unco-operative .
24 But at the same time another pressure is being applied to the least gifted children from working-class homes .
25 Naturphilosophie was already being applied to the unity of type in the organic world by Lorenz Oken ( 1779–1851 ) and others .
26 This is that they have a different emphasis according to whether they are being applied to consumer markets or industrial markets .
27 For similar reasons , forms of current cost accounting are being applied to some of the newly-privatized ( regulated ) industries , such as the water industry .
28 In practice , therefore , it appears that the care programme approach , contrary to the guidelines , was being implemented selectively in the study areas and was not being applied to every new patient accepted by mental health services in these districts .
29 It is heartening to see the Precautionary Principle being applied to potential risk situations , even though it is not applied more widely throughout the PPG Note .
30 Where the restraint necessitates holding a client down , the first recourse should be to attempt this face up , a degree of weight being applied to the shoulders .
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