Example sentences of "[noun] refer to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | pehunan refers to a state of extreme vulnerability to dangers of all sorts that results from the frustration of an individual 's wishes ( see Dentan 1968 ; Robarchek 1977b , 1986b ) . |
| 2 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 3 | Rebecca West refers to a photograph of him taken at this time in army uniform as a private of the Worcestershire Regiment . |
| 4 | Here Heisenberg refers to a notion to which he often had recourse , that quantum mechanics had revived Aristotle 's old idea of potentia . |
| 5 | Ferguson refers to a pub and club session that Norman Whiteside and I had , and that come Friday I could n't train — even though , he said , I was supposed to be playing against Queens Park Rangers . |
| 6 | The term ideology refers to a set of ideas which present only a partial view of reality . |
| 7 | In fact in its original Hebrew setting the shepherd referred to a totally different picture — one who actually cared for and was perhaps even prepared to give his life for the sheep , protecting them from very real danger from which they could not be expected to protect themselves . |
| 8 | The next extract refers to a period in Salisbury when Philip Parrish works eight hours a day in preparation for his Civil Service examination without too many lapses into dreaming . |
| 9 | This term refers to a situation of balance — a steady state . |
| 10 | Waldron refers to a justification of property along these lines as a right-based argument for private property , which he defines as ‘ an argument which takes an individual interest to be sufficiently important in itself to justify holding others ( especially the government ) to be under duties to create , secure , maintain , or respect an institution of private property ’ . |
| 11 | Another Orton diary entry referred to a man complaining about the TV show being a ‘ fake ’ — presumably because he could see they worked from scripts . |
| 12 | Many more primary than secondary schools referred to a focus on healthy eating although this was clearly not without its difficulties : |
| 13 | One punter refers to a typically fateful day : 1 August 1988 - " … the day I returned from a holiday abroad , Harvard telephoned me out of the blue ( 8th April 1986 ) , and a chap who sounded like an enthusiastic young cockney told me how wonderful Towerbell was and that it was going places with top stars in tow ! " |
| 14 | The information recorded on the birth certificate refers to one point in time — when the child 's birth was registered — whereas the information reported at interview refers to a period of employment of three months or longer , at any time from three years before the child 's birth up until diagnosis . |
| 15 | Here , the action refers to a game which has ceased . |
| 16 | Preceded by to the infinitive is felt to evoke an action referred to a point in time prior to its realization : ( la ) above situates call as being supposed to follow the existence of the obligation to realize this event , denoted by had . |
| 17 | Sometimes , for example , the id refers to a section of the mind , at other times it appears to be alluding to a whole person or agent . |
| 18 | The reader should note that the term Grower Champagne used throughout this chapter refers to a récoltant-manipulant , that is to say a grower who sells Champagne under his own name . |
| 19 | In his last letter , Tristram referred to a document he was sending — or intending to send — to Beatrix . |
| 20 | Mr. Raffan : As the review referred to a much higher incidence of heart disease , strokes and most forms of cancer in Wales compared to the rest of the United Kingdom , will my right Hon. Friend assure the House that the Health Promotion Authority for Wales will have a much higher profile than it has had and a budget to match ? |
| 21 | A Scottish term referring to a group of fairies and fairy beasts which can be dangerous , or at least mischievous . |
| 22 | In linguistics , " creole " is a technical term referring to a class of languages which originate through contact between two or more already existing languages . |
| 23 | Strictly speaking , Hesiod refers to a golden race rather than to the golden age of later writers . |
| 24 | The D in brackets refers to a wo , a work organiser section of my daytimer which is my marketing section . |
| 25 | The judge referred to a previous decision of his , In re H. ( Minor ) ( Abduction ) [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 439 , but he said that that was to be distinguished because in that case there was in existence at the time of the removal an order of the court that the child should not be removed from the jurisdiction . |
| 26 | The arrowed solid bar refers to a deletion of 650 bp covering the promoter region and the signal sequence present in the b and s haplotype ( 28 ) . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , in principle the distinction is clear : where a pronoun refers to a linguistic expression ( or chunk of discourse ) itself , it is discourse-deictic ; where a pronoun refers to the same entity as a prior linguistic expression refers to , it is anaphoric . |
| 28 | More recently in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 , Lord Griffiths ( with whom Lord Bridge of Harwich , Lord Brandon of Oakbrook and Lord Mackay of Clashfern agreed ) confirmed that the courts have no concurrent or appellate jurisdiction in respect of matters referred to a visitor by the special regulations of a university and emphasised the advantages of the visitorial procedure . |
| 29 | The borough council refers to a criteria based policy . |
| 30 | Bunyard 's accolade referred to a perfectly ripe Cox , left on its tree until October and not snatched off before it is anywhere near maturity , as so many commercially grown apples were later treated . |