Example sentences of "to [be] applicable [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 2 | They are also written in such a way as to be applicable to the most popular makes of computer , by giving variations in programming where necessary . |
| 3 | The fourth meaning appears to be a combination of the first and third meanings where non-sexual and sexual attraction are combined , and which seems also to be applicable to human beings only . |
| 4 | There are only a few societies where all members hold the same characteristics to be applicable to everyone . |
| 5 | The result , however , is not a ‘ theory of the state ’ , an account of such generality as to be applicable to all societies at all times . |
| 6 | This certainly makes room for the many capitalist configurations found in history But some of Poulantzas ' critics have complained that , instead of creating a theory , all he has provided is an overblown list a set of descriptive categories so various as to be applicable to any social formation , and lacking any explanatory bite . |
| 7 | The work is expected to be applicable to the mainstream Unix market as well as real-time embedded systems and high performance parallel processing systems . |
| 8 | Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution . |
| 9 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |
| 10 | The specified conditions as to the amount of supply that could be sold off , were ones to which we were asked to agree — conditions to be applicable to all bidders — before the Government would even consider pursuing the possibility of a private sale . |
| 11 | All of these proposals to be applicable to the whole of the U.K. |
| 12 | But the concept of pain which I have acquired in this way is such as to be applicable to others , by simply supposing that they have a sensation which is like the one I have ( Mill : ‘ by supposing the link to be of the same nature ’ ) . |
| 13 | In most cases , it will not be difficult to see how the argument presented could be re-cast so as to be applicable to observation via the other senses . |
| 14 | The major difference is that whereas in Popper the decisions concern the acceptance of singular statements only , in Lakatos the device is extended so as to be applicable to the universal statements that make up the hard core . |
| 15 | Surely they only take place when the data 's known to be applicable to people . ’ |
| 16 | Thus , natural justice has been held to be applicable to cases of disciplinary action within a university and to expulsion for failure in examinations , although in the latter case the examiners had based their decision on the personal attributes of the candidate as well as exam marks . |
| 17 | Apollinaire had recently finished writing Le Bestiaire au Cortège d'Orphée and felt the name to be applicable to Delaunay 's work , partly because it was more lyrical and sensuous than the rather austere Cubism of the period , and also because he saw it as a form of ‘ peinture pure ’ which had analogies with music . |
| 18 | On balance , they believe it to be a flexible enough approach to SSE to be applicable to different school circumstances , to be institutionally penetrating and to be capable of bringing about changes in schools using it . |
| 19 | Here , the fact that the adjective property is applicable to the object entity in a whole construction like ( 22 ) is intimately connected with the lexical meaning of the verb , and will thereby be understood to be applicable to the entity of the object even when that is considered in isolation . |
| 20 | A number of processes have been proposed to explain the formation of back-arc basins but no one mechanism seems to be applicable to all cases . |
| 21 | Numerous mechanisms have been suggested to explain the often significant uplift that has occurred in plate interiors but none seems to be applicable to all cases . |
| 22 | It seems probable that many of the models outlined above will be found to be applicable to at least some passive margins , but much work remains to be done in this field . |
| 23 | Although first language acquisition is strictly related to the development of social identity , Watts ' conclusions that a certain set of perceptions is characteristic of Swiss-German readers ( p. 37 ) and that it " may be traced back to the kind of socialization into literacy " ( p. 39 ) are debatable mainly because the presented responses seem to be applicable to various categories of readers . |
| 24 | The basic model has been found to be applicable in a wide area extending from Germany in the east , to onshore U.K. in the west . |
| 25 | A typical model , considered by some to be applicable in any communication situation , would take the following form : |