Example sentences of "refer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist . |
| 2 | These words of his , in The Periodic Table , refer to some words of the past . |
| 3 | I refer to this part of my life as my grey period . |
| 4 | Even today , in the amalgamated forces , this structuring principle holds good ; and many old hands still refer to the ‘ real police forces ’ as those small units they joined in the late 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 5 | In a number of ways , both vocal and non-vocal , the uniform branch disparagingly refer to this separation which occurs between themselves and their detective colleagues . |
| 6 | Their relations to one another determine the syntax ( that is , the grammar ) of the language they constitute , and their causal relations to the external world determine their semantics ( that is , what they are about or refer to ) . |
| 7 | Because these representations refer to computational achievements within systems which are by definition ( Fodor 's definition ) not holistic . |
| 8 | Refer to the available photographs when reading the exercise description , and practise them on their own first before attempting a whole session . |
| 9 | People often refer to ‘ the elderly ’ as if they were a single group of people , but their needs are as varied as those of any other group in our population . |
| 10 | The White Paper and Working Paper 2 refer to ‘ core services ’ which must be maintained by the District Health Authority . |
| 11 | A The disease you refer to is called Lyme Disease and , as you rightly point out , it can affect people and other animals . |
| 12 | I refer to this significant dispute in passing , without engaging in it , except to say that feminists are divided on whether they want to establish a countercanon or extend the existing one . |
| 13 | Here only the place-names refer to france ; the junipers , the spruce and fir , and the falling snow are taken over by Pound from a landscape at the other side of the world . |
| 14 | Sir : I refer to Peter Wilby 's Viewpoint ( 29 September ) . |
| 15 | Sir : You refer to the Prime Minister ( 4 October ) as ‘ not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine ’ , owing presumably to her supposedly vulgar tastes . |
| 16 | Sir : I refer to the dropping of charges against the man accused of raping a mentally handicapped girl on the grounds she was not of fit mind to answer questions and give evidence ( 4 October ) . |
| 17 | I refer to would-be parliamentary candidates , Bordes-type aspirants with lunging bosoms and other improbable specimens , who seek to board the Candidates ' List , and in due course may turn up before our selection committees . |
| 18 | There are also ‘ big crime ’ calls , which refer to the ‘ real ’ job of crime-fighting , which the section police enjoy most . |
| 19 | But there are what they refer to as the ‘ problem families ’ . |
| 20 | What Bartlett and Ghoshal refer to as the global company is alleged to be the result of Japanese practice developed in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 21 | Make sure you refer to the correct table : weekly or monthly . |
| 22 | I refer to the federal corollary . |
| 23 | Most companies ( record companies , music publishers and large management firms ) have what they refer to as their standard agreement . |
| 24 | refer to a stage direction , not to life . |
| 25 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 26 | Three elements refer to the female presence , all of them dealing with an essential lack . |
| 27 | The desire to create a pseudo-history of the movement 's afterlife may be good for business , and may have provided extra material for the book ( I refer to the Boston text , see pp. 10–13 ) but it is not in keeping with the purer aims of the Situationists outlined elsewhere in these and other texts . |
| 28 | ( Comments in brackets refer to comparable difficulties when studying the body clock. ) ( 1 ) When should you study the family ? |
| 29 | The bulk of Lewis 's book is pure literary history , though its earlier chapters refer to the strange pseudo-religion of Love which appears to have originated in twelfth-century Provence . |
| 30 | These refer to the Argos catalogue , a big hit with the under-5s I 'm reliably informed . |