Example sentences of "[noun] can [not/n't] be applied to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This criticism can not be applied to the results for 1984–90 . |
| 4 | ‘ Realism maintains that universal moral principles can not be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |