Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] applied to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such innovations were only applied to certain traffic flows , and the old order of vacuum-braked or unfitted wagons , sprawling marshalling yards and generally lavish siding provision was allowed to linger on . |
| 2 | Until late 1988 , whisky spirits in Japan faced a special tax which was not applied to other spirits . |
| 3 | This knowledge was rapidly applied to clinical care by responsible physicians . |
| 4 | The term ‘ buggery ’ , for example , derives from the religious as well as sexual nonconformity of an eleventh-century Bulgarian sect which practised the Manichaean heresy and refused to propagate the species ; the OED tells us that it was later applied to other heretics , to whom abominable practices were also ascribed . |
| 5 | This preparation was then applied to standard silica gel thin layer chromatography plates together with phosphatidylcholine , cholesteryl oleate , and oleic acid standards . |