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

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1 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 .
2 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 ] .
3 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 .
4 In fact , some of these practices have also been applied to political communication ; an election broadcast or a staged political event is constructed in such a way as to elicit a pre-determined and desired response .
5 This form of analysis has been applied to various periods during the industrial revolution and to more modern developments .
6 Remote sensing ( air and spaceborne ) techniques have been applied to various areas of Britain .
7 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 .
8 Recently they have been applied to other commercial lettings , notably to lettings of shops , hotels and restaurants .
9 In a very different context from California this same strategy has been applied to good effect .
10 Characterisation studies have also been applied to early Anglo-Saxon stone artefacts .
11 In this Chapter I shall begin by briefly considering the ( rather wide ) range of interference theories that have been applied to latent inhibition .
12 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 .
13 Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition .
14 Quantitative methods have been applied to social developments not only at the centre but in individual provinces , towns and villages .
15 The APT has been applied to British data by Diacogiannis , ; who used 302 monthly observations for 200 securities between November 1956 and December 1981 .
16 First , it has been applied to discretionary decisions which could not , whether right or wrong , be classified as of the ‘ red hair type . ’
17 ( An exception to this is the dichotic monitoring technique developed by Geffen which was discussed in Chapter 4 but this has not yet been applied to large scale studies of left handers . )
18 Here , it seemed , some labour had been applied to physical comforts , although there was little evidence of efficient housekeeping .
19 From the earliest days of observation and recording of geological features , terms such as ‘ coarse ’ , ‘ medium ’ or ‘ fine ’ grained have been applied to unconsolidated deposits .
20 Feminist psychology 's combinatory approach has been applied to experimental design as well .
21 A similar approach has been applied to marine records of explosive eruptions in the Bay of Naples .
22 Finally , the variety of ways in which linguistic terms have been applied to literary narrative suggests that even in the most linguistically conscious theories of literature , the role of linguistics remains subservient : it can never supply literary analysis with prescriptive procedures when it is operating at this level of the literary text .
23 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 .
24 Since they are applied to various topics throughout the text , an initial awareness is essential .
25 Instead , it is often simpler to make use of open-ended or indefinite contracts , the same contracts as are applied to other , " permanent " members of staff .
26 The hands and feet can be turned into deadly weapons capable of withstanding injury when they are applied to inanimate objects such as bricks and wooden boards so long as the practitioner approaches the matter with the right psychological outlook .
27 The methods developed are applied to large models of the UK economy , such as the model of H. M.
28 Secondly , there is the question I addressed in my research of how notions of child abuse are applied to particular cases .
29 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 .
30 Whereas the primary directions can be applied universally , the secondary may be applied to certain conditions or ailments .
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