Example sentences of "to refer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You always have your agent to refer to should anyone make you an offer . |
| 2 | You should be able to go into turns and make centring movements without having to refer to the slip ball , yaw string , or ASI . |
| 3 | The same kind of representational language could be used to refer to the working of a television set or indeed a thermostat . |
| 4 | 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients . |
| 5 | If any further additions are made to the dos command line , they are assumed to refer to an ascii file to be loaded directly . |
| 6 | The last component of the rainbow coalition that I want to refer to is feminism . |
| 7 | In this context I want to refer to a brief but highly significant passage in Richards 's Practical Criticism . |
| 8 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 9 | She asked the court to refer to the European Court the question of whether Article 59 of the EC Treaty could be taken as meaning that a member state could bar the giving of information in its territory about services in another member state that were illegal in the first country . |
| 10 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 11 | In the one sense , the term is used to refer to the ordinary aspects of police work , in the other , it is the process by which police work is done that is described as ‘ routine ’ . |
| 12 | But for certain reasons , which I will mention presently , we do n't want to use it ; so we pretend that it does not exist and hope that no one will be guilty of such bad taste as to refer to it . ) |
| 13 | Still , we have to this extent moved on , that not merely are we , in the context of this phenomenon , allowed to refer to the facts but we are actually now allowed to criticise those who suppress the facts . |
| 14 | The Russian village community belongs to the youngest type in this chain , ’ [ Hobsbawm , 142–3 ] , and in the same letter Marx goes on to refer to an ‘ all American author ’ as one of his authorities for such a statement . |
| 15 | Morgan 's interest in anthropology had begun when he noticed the systematic pattern created by the totality of the terms used to refer to relatives and kinsmen . |
| 16 | Once , when the three of them were sitting in Lewis 's rooms , Lewis happened to refer to philosophy as ‘ a subject ’ . |
| 17 | After Nasser , he says , his themes seemed to refer to a vanished society and for five years Mahfouz wrote no books . |
| 18 | IN THE tunnel between Gloucester Road and Earls Court , the train-supposedly bound for Richmond-has come to a halt : 25 minutes pass , a hot , cross silence broken only by the coughs and tuts and groans and rattling Evening Standards of disgruntled passengers ( sorry , ‘ customers ’ ; London Underground now wishes to refer to the sad user of the subterranean network as a ‘ customer , ’ dictionary definition : n. one who buys ) . |
| 19 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 20 | These days the word salame is also used to refer to an idiot with less brains than a sack of potatoes ! |
| 21 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 22 | A proposed directive suggests that manufacturers should not be allowed to refer to helpful recommendations by health bodies ( ‘ The Intestines Inspectorate says fibre is good for you . |
| 23 | He liked to refer to his ‘ abrasive ’ personality and Jane noticed that his colleagues all gave in to him . |
| 24 | Some years ago Christian theologians coined the phrase ‘ the scandal of particularity ’ to refer to the apparent problems surrounding the identification of a particular , historical individual with the Son of God . |
| 25 | Korah sets up an alternative people of God ( the Hebrew term translated ‘ company ’ in the RSV in verse 5 and beyond is the same as ‘ congregation ’ in verse 2 and elsewhere , which is used to refer to Israel as a whole ) . |
| 26 | For a long time it seemed impossible to refer to Communists without using the words ‘ conspiracy ’ and ‘ sons of bitches ’ . |
| 27 | She will not like me to refer to this time when she is better , Dorothea thought , she will avoid my company and we will only wish one another the most formal good morning . |
| 28 | It was a category , a catch-phrase , a summation ; and it also provided a mild but pleasing joke because it used ‘ government ’ to refer to its absence , and because the arabi ( ‘ people 's government ’ ) of tradition contrasted with the sha bi ( ‘ people 's government ’ ) of the present regime , seen in this context to be the opposite of what real people 's government ought to be . |
| 29 | When dealing with large radii it is convenient to refer to them in terms of their versines . |
| 30 | However , when the Parkers passed by , some were cruel enough to refer to the minister and his attractive wife as ‘ The Beauty and the Beast ’ . |