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

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1 This ‘ sweeping under the carpet ’ syndrome as applied to female deviance reflects the congruency of the sociologist 's values with those of the wider society .
2 The slogan ‘ reduction of waiting lists ’ as applied to elective surgery or outpatient appointments is simplistic and may have no relevance to actual or imminent medical needs of patients and their families .
3 Oeppen has continued to investigate the structure of projection models as applied to long runs of data from the past .
4 In the case of subject searches , the criterion as applied to traditional IR systems has been that of retrieval effectiveness , based on the concept of relevance and the measures of recall and precision .
5 Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) .
6 In 1847 the Congregational Union Year Book included a thirteen-page section , ‘ Remarks on Ecclesiastical Architecture as Applied to Nonconformist Chapels ’ .
7 They further describe research as covering quality , distribution , accessibility , outcome , and effectiveness , as applied to professional health care ( self care or public health activity ) .
8 Little was known , however , of whether ESRC support was more important in some areas than others or whether , in areas where there is significant support from other sources , ESRC 's support for basic or strategic research ( as applied to applied ) might nevertheless be critical .
9 It involved spasmodic attempts at boosting advanced teaching and research in science and other fields of " modern " study , especially as applied to industrial organization and technological development .
10 Graham Hough develops this argument as applied to English studies by claiming that the Christian-humanist ideal is now worn and battered , with a resulting confusion within literary education .
11 The results with quail provide direct support for the discrepancy hypothesis as applied to sexual preferences and indirect support for the notion of optimal outbreeding .
12 Members of staff have research interests in the following fields — Medieval : Modern literary theory as applied to medieval texts ; mythology and fantasy ; oral literature ; questions of transmission and textual criticism .
13 Status consciousness , as applied to male/female speech differences , is a construct that tries to squash everything into the one-dimensional framework of class ; to the extent that other things are relevant it therefore fails .
14 If the attitudinist can make sense of deductive reasoning as applied to ethical statements , it seems that he can make sense of the embedding of ethical sentences in complex sentences where the attitude they would express on their own is , so to speak , held in reserve .
15 This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer .
16 Similar problems are likely to arise in respect of artificial intelligence systems , or heuristic systems as applied to medical diagnosis where again two paths are open but the possibilities which socially useful design make possible would appear to have been ignored .
17 The pieces we loaned made up the ‘ influence of ’ section , with each piece was a particularly rare and important example of Japonisme as applied to domestic silver , and we shall have some of those pieces displayed for sale at this year 's fair .
18 The authors discuss neither Simpson nor the important paper by John Cronin et al in 1981 ( Nature , vol 292 , p 113 ) which summarises the mass of morphological and molecular data which contradict the punctuational argument as applied to human evolution .
19 The department has major research activities in the pathological sciences and has closely co-ordinated research interests in Immunology , Molecular Biology , Virology and Microbiology , both in veterinary species ( especially the sheep , pig , cat and dog ) and as applied to human medicine .
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