Example sentences of "[been] applied to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Stimulated Raman scattering in a plasma has been investigated in terms of forward scattering , shock waves and ( recently ) backward scattering , and the results have been applied to high-velocity features of water masers .
2 In SPAR , as we saw earlier , no common sense inference is carried out until the focusing rules ( with sortal constraints ) have been applied to all anaphors , and configurational constraints have been applied .
3 The method was used first by Kröner ( 1958 ) for the elastic moduli of cubic polycrystals and has been applied to composite materials by Hill , Walpole and many others [ see , for example , Laws & McLaughlin ( 1978 ) for references ] .
4 There were two decisions which were binding where the rule of privilege had been applied to copied documents : The Palermo ( 1883 ) 9 PD 6 , and Watson v Cammel Laird & Co ( Shipbuilders and Engineers ) Ltd ( 1959 ) 1 WLR 702 .
5 In fact , some of these practices have also been applied to political communication ; an election broadcast or a staged political event is constructed in such a way as to elicit a pre-determined and desired response .
6 Remote sensing ( air and spaceborne ) techniques have been applied to various areas of Britain .
7 This form of analysis has been applied to various periods during the industrial revolution and to more modern developments .
8 Good Laboratory Practice ( GLP ) principles have been applied to many R & D establishments since their introduction by the Food and Drug Administration in the US .
9 Although originally presented as a theory of personality , PCT has been applied to wider areas such as politics ( Fransella and Bannister , 1967 ) architecture ( Glanville , 1977 ) , maps ( Stringer , 1974 ) , film ( Carver , 1967 ) , painting ( O'Hare and Gordon , 1976 ; Mendoza and Thomas , 1972 ) and music ( Ward , 1985 ) .
10 In a very different context from California this same strategy has been applied to good effect .
11 In this Chapter I shall begin by briefly considering the ( rather wide ) range of interference theories that have been applied to latent inhibition .
12 Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition .
13 Such approaches have been applied to cursive words of English ( Frishkopf and Harmon 1961 ; Harmon , 1962b ; Earnest , 1962 ; Farag , 1979 ; Brown and Ganapathy , 1980 ) , but to achieve any degree of accuracy the vocabulary which can be recognised is very small .
14 Quantitative methods have been applied to social developments not only at the centre but in individual provinces , towns and villages .
15 The APT has been applied to British data by Diacogiannis , ; who used 302 monthly observations for 200 securities between November 1956 and December 1981 .
16 First , it has been applied to discretionary decisions which could not , whether right or wrong , be classified as of the ‘ red hair type . ’
17 Techniques analogous to those used in the study of the brain have been applied to these systems and it can be quite instructive to compare the way in which people have approached these non-neural systems with these methods with the way they go about studying the central nervous system .
18 ( An exception to this is the dichotic monitoring technique developed by Geffen which was discussed in Chapter 4 but this has not yet been applied to large scale studies of left handers . )
19 Here , it seemed , some labour had been applied to physical comforts , although there was little evidence of efficient housekeeping .
20 From the earliest days of observation and recording of geological features , terms such as ‘ coarse ’ , ‘ medium ’ or ‘ fine ’ grained have been applied to unconsolidated deposits .
21 This may allow a lower overall value to be negotiated in an area where a premium has been applied to smaller occupations .
22 It seems to me there 's there 's a very circular argument that that 's been applied to this question of environmental constraint .
23 You 'll see that these formatting commands have also been applied to this heading .
24 Flows of people from metropolitan to non-metropolitan areas have been observed in a number of developed countries in recent years , and the term ‘ counter-urbanization ’ has been applied to this process ( Berry 1976 ; Bryant et al .
25 A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells .
26 Feminist psychology 's combinatory approach has been applied to experimental design as well .
27 A similar approach has been applied to marine records of explosive eruptions in the Bay of Naples .
28 Finally , the variety of ways in which linguistic terms have been applied to literary narrative suggests that even in the most linguistically conscious theories of literature , the role of linguistics remains subservient : it can never supply literary analysis with prescriptive procedures when it is operating at this level of the literary text .
29 It has been applied to any influence one person may exert upon another , whether in speech or writing , whether by overt physical interference , whether directly in face-to-face confrontation , or anonymously through the links and influences of an institution .
30 Biological explanations of fertility based on principles of maximizing a broadly defined reproductive success ( Wilson 1975 ) have been useful in non-human species and have been applied to human populations with natural fertility ( Borgerhoff-Mulder 1987 ) , in an attempt to relate reproductive success with the resources available to women .
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