Example sentences of "refer to [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 2 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 3 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 4 | Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it . |
| 5 | Now I 'll put a line to do a transcription transcription goes in an appendix , put your transcription at the back of your work , in according to Appendix A and number the lines , so that you can refer to them in the body or wherever . |
| 6 | For brevity we can refer to it as the PCBCR . |
| 7 | But they 've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they |
| 8 | We refer to everything in the plane exterior to 1.5kpc as the ‘ disk ’ , and consider all material inside 1.5kpc , whether or not it lies in the plane , to be part of the bulge . |
| 9 | The local press referred to him as the Supremo . |
| 10 | He had met Graham , or Green as he had referred to him throughout the interrogation , for the first time at the Windorah . |
| 11 | Experienced solicitors took turns in seeing defendants in custody and those referred to them by the court so that they could advise ( not represent ) an appropriate course of action . |
| 12 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 13 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 14 | The Welsh Office has shown itself barely capable of handling planning matters referred to it under the appeals system . |
| 15 | Convocation has a role defined in the Charter : it may ‘ discuss and pronounce an opinion on any matters whatsoever relating to the University including any matters referred to it by the Court or the Council ’ . |
| 16 | The National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) acts as the lobbying body on behalf of the pension industry , but has no specific regulatory powers , nor does the Occupation Pensions Board ( OPB ) which comments on pension matters that are referred to it by the Secretary of State ( and also has responsibility for issuing contracting out certificates ) . |
| 17 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission may , under the Fair Trading Act 1973 , have referred to it by the Director of Fair Trading or a Minister for investigation and report whether a monopoly , as defined , is or is not against the public interest . |
| 18 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |
| 19 | Apples were also taken west to Greece and Italy , and Homer refers to them in The Odyssey , which was written between 900 and 800 BC . |
| 20 | The bird has a piercing yellow eye and I think an older generation of wild-fowlers still refers to it as the golden-eye although that name , strictly speaking , belongs to an entirely different species . |
| 21 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |
| 22 | She is the most powerful magician ever to wear the crown of Kislev , and her aloof majesty and inscrutable disposition has caused many to refer to her as the Ice Queen of Kislev . |
| 23 | Since such rules can be optionally applied to the same basic sentence structures , they provide a linguistic basis for the notion of * In this , as in subsequent chapters , we number examples and extracts only where we need to refer to them in the text . |
| 24 | There , from January 1801 onwards , correspondence covering the years since 1780 was systematically assembled from the State Paper Office and elsewhere and taken to the foreign office — an obvious response to the need frequently to refer to it in the conduct of daily business and the resulting inconvenience if it were stored anywhere else . |
| 25 | When referring to yourself as the writer , it is possible to use a range of forms : " I " , " we " , " one " , " the present author " , etc . |
| 26 | However , he was much more explicit in his references to the nature of ‘ adolescence ’ , referring to it as the age of ‘ terrible peril ’ which had to be responded to ; the ‘ wayward forces ’ had to be ‘ rightly directed ’ , so that the ‘ new instincts and impulses , the new faculties and powers … shall be rightly exercised and trained , and that protection shall be given as far as possible against the temptations to which it is exposed ’ . |