Example sentences of "not be applied to the " in BNC.

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1 All behaviouristic theories of cognition are viciously third-personal , where that expression signifies , first , that they can not be applied to the first-person perspective and , second that our ability to apply them to the third person really rests on our bringing to bear first-person knowledge : as with rats in mazes , where my plain and unreduced apprehension of the rat 's environment enables me to see its grasp of that environment in terms of its behaviour within it .
2 Most certainly it can not be applied to the peasant buildings of a century or so later .
3 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 .
4 This criticism can not be applied to the results for 1984–90 .
5 ‘ Realism maintains that universal moral principles can not be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation . ’
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 .
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