Example sentences of "referred to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A guide to art reference books published in 1969 had 2,500 entries , some of which referred to series ; for example , there was a single entry for the series of monographs on individual artists , called Klassiker der Kunst , also published in French as Classiques d'Art , in which there are thirty-eight books . |
| 2 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 3 | Professor Pacey referred to Layton as ‘ a poet of revolutionary individualism , ’ and there can be no doubt that that individualism was a common tie , and not merely religiously but in every way . |
| 4 | ( It reached its zenith in Beautiful Losers when he referred to ‘ my factory ’ , his metaphor for Judaism as , ‘ a pile of rags and labels , a distraction , an insult to my spirit . ’ ) |
| 5 | If this were not so , and all statements simply joined names that referred to individuals , nothing would be said about those individuals . |
| 6 | In Mr Leach 's reply to J. Wigg of Halifax ( WW/June 91/p.557 ) he referred to commercial acrylic water borne lacquers . |
| 7 | In her letter of 21 August , Ms Greengross referred to the 1989 Family Expenditure Survey which found that 25% of retired people living alone mainly dependent on the state pension do not have a telephone and linked this ‘ poor level of penetration among people who need a telephone most … to the policy of increasing rental and connection charges to the maximum permitted by the retail price index ( RPI ) + 2% price cap , while targeting businesses and heavy residential users for international call rate reductions and volume discounts ’ . |
| 8 | When Bournonville discussed the construction of a ballet he referred to the librettos and development of plot in La Sylphide and Giselle . |
| 9 | She puts it on to follow Raskolnikov on his final journey to the police station , and through his mind flashes the thought that this is the shawl Marmeladov referred to in the pub as ‘ the family one ’ . |
| 10 | Part of the reliquary consisted of a gold inscription plaque which referred to the fourteenth year of a particular Gadhara king , enabling the experts to date it precisely . |
| 11 | But Ferranti said yesterday : ‘ The report confirms that Coopers & Lybrand have found no information which would lead them to suspect that the Ferranti International balance sheet exposure to fraud was any different from that referred to in the letter to shareholders dated 29 September . |
| 12 | She also referred to her mother in a slightly dismissive way in the course of two reported interviews . |
| 13 | In the continuing war of words between reformers and hardliners , Mr Nemeth conjured up the best insult of the day when he referred to his opponents as ‘ Stone Age conservatives ’ . |
| 14 | He referred to two documents where the Yugoslavs gave undertakings about treatment of repatriated citizens . |
| 15 | He referred to plans to develop social programmes and infrastructure projects as a ‘ vision that I hope will sustain Hong Kong during the present period of uncertainty and give us all confidence in our ability to overcome whatever problems confront us ’ . |
| 16 | The ideal grew out of one man 's initiative and people who referred to Sir Matt Busby as a visionary did so without hesitation because , of all the titles bestowed upon him , none appeared to be more appropriate . |
| 17 | The local village Soviet , whose members Makarenko referred to as ‘ a lot of parasites ’ , declared that the Trepke cistern was state property . |
| 18 | This interplay and this conflict are the driving forces of history/ they are a process which Marx referred to by the word ‘ dialectic ’ . |
| 19 | This is just the same for systems like the Polynesian one , discussed by Engels , where large numbers of people can referred to by the same term as one 's father . |
| 20 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 21 | Watched by a demonstration of 5000 jeering westerners at the Brandenburg Gate , and by Mr Willi Brandt , the then Mayor of West Berlin who referred to ‘ the vacant eyes of uniformed compatriots doing their duty on the other side ’ , the soldiers completed the first barrier in only a few hours . |
| 22 | Stauder referred to ‘ this exorbitantly rewarded and grotesque event which gives the winner more prize money than Boris Becker has made this year ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Gorbachev never referred to the SDI in any of the other summit sessions , said US officials . |
| 24 | Professor Sir David Cox of Nuffield College , Oxford , an expert on — among other things — Aids statistics , no doubt had uppermost in his mind the Prime Ministerial axing of the Lifestyle Aids survey when he referred to increasing political pressure and lamented the sinking reputation of official statistics . |
| 25 | McNeill referred to Jim Smith , his counterpart at St James ' Park , as ‘ insulting ’ and accused him of conducting private business in public . |
| 26 | Reynes was an acquaintance of the diarist Samuel Pepys , who referred to him as ‘ a willing man , ready to co-operate in plans for the Navy ’ , and ‘ one who understands and loves a play as well as I , and I love him for it ’ . |
| 27 | Three generations later , the third John Pollexton inherited Mothecombe in 1700 and proceeded to build what he referred to in his will as ‘ the new house by me erected ’ . |
| 28 | As one of the bright-eyed and Washington-bound young lawyers from Columbia referred to in your leader ( ‘ America 's timid trustbusters ’ , April 27th ) , I question your nostalgia for American antitrust enforcement in the 1960s . |
| 29 | Others followed , among them Castlereagh , Victor Hugo , Nietzsche and a French foreign ministry memo of 1930 which referred to the ‘ European Community ’ . |
| 30 | Jane wondered who ‘ they ’ referred to . |