Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be applied to " in BNC.

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1 They argue that the same rigour should be applied to the study of older patients with cancer as for younger - ‘ only then will we see strikingly reduced population mortality and improved quality of life for older patients with cancer . ’
2 ‘ Terrorism is to be condemned from whatever quarter and in an effort to do so the same rules of descriptive terminology should be applied to all victims , ’ Mr McMichael added .
3 Although more tension may be applied to the lower posterior wall of the reservoir than to the anterior wall during construction , one would expect to show greater differences in scores for these sites in relatively recently constructed reservoirs compared with those that had been in situ for several years , and the pathological changes would also be expected to be more like those of mucosal ischaemia .
4 I I going to weight of of criteria first of all , I think this very great weight should be applied to this criterion because obviously if you can not serve the new settlement satisfactorily then it should n't be developed in that location .
5 The above definition does not adequately answer the question : ‘ What is rhythm ? ’ if the choreographer is to understand how the uses of rhythm must be applied to the creation of a ballet .
6 The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based .
7 This reasoning could be applied to claims by or against the United States with respect to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea .
8 My account of deixis is such that the methodology could be applied to other kinds of discourse , both literary and non-literary .
9 This means that , if the conditions are all true in some state , then the operator called action can be applied to the state , and what is more , this operator may help the search .
10 The condition is a predicate which is true of just those states N that the action can be applied to .
11 It is necessary , in my judgment , to look at the facts somewhat closely to see what amounts to a discharge and how far the reasoning can be applied to the case , not of joint and several debtors , but of several debtors alone , albeit all liable for the same debt .
12 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 .
13 The tables on the South side of the Library are unsuitable for the consultation of colour illustrated books , and for leather bound books , until UV screening can be applied to the windows .
14 True ‘ living fossils ’ are really rather rare , and the term can be applied to both simple and highly complex organisms that have outlived the time when the earth was populated with many more of their kind .
15 Rider Haggard 's heroine ( if such a general term can be applied to her ) is introduced in terms that were to become very familiar in his fiction , as a fabled white goddess-figure ruling over an unknown tribal kingdom in unexplored Central Africa .
16 Study Philippians 2:3–4 and state specifically how this passage may be applied to marital ( sexual ) relations .
17 In addition , the police service itself has issued a code of practice setting out how the principles underlying the Data Protection Act should be applied to the PNC and to other police computer systems .
18 By 1987 , the Home Office Research and Planning Unit Programme was indicating , ‘ now that resources are more constrained , more stringent criteria of relevance must be applied to the funding of research for the Home Office ’ .
19 10.7 Where it proves necessary to redeploy an employee as a result of an act of violence at work , the normal terms and conditions of employment for the new post in question will be applied to the redeployed employee .
20 Though the doll motif can be applied to several different characters , its central meaning is a representation of that which Lawrence dislikes in relationships between men and women .
21 When minimum AC feedthrough is needed in , for example , a suppressed-carrier modulator , a +-30MV trim voltage can be applied to the X or Y input .
22 In the United Kingdom , the term deregulation can be applied to :
23 If the same anticorrelation can be applied to the longer-term decline in the Sun 's diameter , it may provide a clue to the dearth of sunspots during the height of the Little Ice Age , 300 years ago .
24 Local authorities , housing associations , community groups , government agencies , private developers and building societies were all represented at the launch , where they were told how Middlesbroughwrought experience and expertise could be applied to similar schemes nationwide , with the SkillBuilding social enterprise company offering guidance on planning , funding , construction and long-term management and also able to act as developer or sub-contractor .
25 In addition this ban could be applied to all political parties in a locality for up to three months .
26 While the main purpose of this article is to deal with the larger of the Cichlasoma species , advice on the basics of establishing a cichlid community can be applied to any of the species , even the smallest ones .
27 Potassium-argon dating can be applied to volcanic rocks such as lavas and tuffs and although difficult to measure the decay , it attains its maximum usefulness in the Middle and Early Pleistocene and can be used for a range greater than 20,000 years .
28 This model of internal marketing can be applied to schools through encouraging teachers to see themselves as customers .
29 My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot .
30 Gandhi , as we have seen , sees no superiority in conceiving of God in impersonal rather than personal terms so it is difficult to see how the traditional distinction between higher and lower levels of truth can be applied to him .
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