Example sentences of "can not be applied " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Act can not be applied . |
| 2 | All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it . |
| 3 | As always , the need to calibrate the radiocarbon ‘ dates ’ means that normal statistical tests can not be applied . |
| 4 | Finally , in situations where the conventional statistical approach can not be applied , and provided suitable skills are available , there is a strong case for carrying out the analysis in conjunction with the research itself , rather than contracting out . |
| 5 | Most certainly it can not be applied to the peasant buildings of a century or so later . |
| 6 | Although , in its pure form , the bureaucracy concept can not be applied fully to schools , it has been suggested that bureaucratisation is one of the most significant educational developments of the times . |
| 7 | Without this integration the results of existing technical research can not be applied in less than the present high risk of failure . |
| 8 | At least with the man , a urethritis can be diagnosed , albeit imperfectly , by noticing pus cells in the urethra , but the same criteria can not be applied to the woman . |
| 9 | This means that the kind of discount which supermarkets , for example , are able to offer on other consumer goods can not be applied to books . |
| 10 | As control methods they have the advantage of low capital outlay , although there is the ongoing need to purchase the masking and counteracting agent , as and when necessary , and case of application , being particularly valuable where other methods can not be applied . |
| 11 | There is no reason why the methods outlined here can not be applied successfully to other basins . |
| 12 | In the general case , regions II and III are curved and the analysis given in Section 8.2 can not be applied . |
| 13 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 14 | It is interesting to note that although cost benefit has undoubtedly remained attractive to local authorities operating in difficult financial circumstances , evaluation theory has long recognized that cost benefit analysis can not be applied uniformly : |
| 15 | The equation linking trades unionism with Labour 's advance can not be applied to London ; not only were unions weak , but in the interwar period suffered setbacks as the depression deepened . |
| 16 | If the law is not a business then the controls of the market can not be applied successfully and alternatives must be sought . |
| 17 | This criticism can not be applied to the results for 1984–90 . |
| 18 | ‘ Realism maintains that universal moral principles can not be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation . ’ |
| 19 | This can not be applied directly in international law , for treaties can be amended by the parties ' unanimous agreement , and there is no over-riding regulation of international organisations . |
| 20 | This rule can not be applied to items from the newer weaving countries ( Pakistan and the Balkans , etc ) which produce workshop versions of almost any type of design . |
| 21 | Here again , a large amount of work has been done on the analysis of written discourse for students of ESP and EAP ( see , for example , Selinker , Tarone , and Hanzeli 1981 ) , but there is no reason why the same techniques can not be applied more widely to the production and processing of writing of more general interest . |
| 22 | It is hard to see why these arguments can not be applied ( in differing proportions ) to blues and jazz ; to white American country music ; to their derivatives ( rock 'n' roll , and so on ) ; and to Third World popular musics with links to ‘ folk ’ traditions ( in Latin America , the Caribbean and Africa ) . |
| 23 | In this new state , the rule for unstack can not be applied at all , but the rule for stack has six instances : x is any one of the three blocks ; y is any block other than x . |
| 24 | For example , the width of the five grades is not consistent , and grade 3 not only accounts for about half the land , but also covers a much wider range of possibilities than , say , grade 1 ( Gilg , 1975a ) , and even the subsequent sub-division of grade 3 in the 1970s can not be applied objectively ( Worthington , 1982 ) . |
| 25 | The UK maintains a strong doctrine of extraterritoriality which means that UK competition policy can not be applied in such cases , any more than US antitrust policy would be permitted to pursue a cartel of UK firms exporting to the US . |
| 26 | He argues that the ‘ local state ’ is not simply the national state writ small , and that a general theory of the state can not be applied to the local level . |
| 27 | Judicial realisation that the full implications of the adjudicative model can not be applied in this area is of course beneficial . |
| 28 | In these cases classical theory can not be applied and large-strain elasticity theory is used . |
| 29 | First , the models are one-dimensional only and can not be applied to a real solid . |
| 30 | The mastery of skills is of little use if they can not be applied . |