Example sentences of "[verb] refer [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been at one of the best State schools in England , where she would still be , no doubt , but for what Toby had heard referred to as an Incident . |
| 2 | By that time the embanked railway line — now the District Line — had bisected the ‘ Back Common ’ of Turnham Green , and the area left north of the railway gradually became referred to as Acton Green . |
| 3 | The pragmatism of political urgency must be allowed to sully the purity of intellectual thought ; what is needed , at least in the short term , is what Gayatri Spivak has referred to as a kind of ‘ strategic essentialism ’ . |
| 4 | The worst offenders are almost always Councils controlled by extreme left factions engaged in what the present Chairman of the Conservative Party , Christopher Patten , has referred to as ‘ bleeding-stump politics ’ . |
| 5 | Bad harvests , meanwhile , had once again forced wheat up to famine prices , and the ‘ outbreak of peace ’ after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was to herald what C. P. Hill has referred to as ‘ one of the grimmest periods in modern British History ’ . |
| 6 | Learners who live in what Krashen has referred to as ‘ acquisition-rich ’ environments and take advantage of such settings to use their communicative skills in the L2 , also need opportunities to focus on the functional properties of the language and attend to form . |
| 7 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 8 | The period of the 1940s and the 1950s was to produce what Samuel Beer has referred to as the welfare state and the managed economy , or what some commentators have referred to as the period of the social democratic consensus . |
| 9 | Why does the system in Northern Ireland remain isolated with no connection to any other system , with all the technical and economic disadvantages which that entails and which the hon. Member for Antrim , East has referred to on several occasions ? |
| 10 | Well , there 's nothing , as I understand it there is nothing in the Law Society guidelines but there are certainly references in the professional conduct guidelines which Mr has referred to in the course of this report er which referred to the extent of solicitors in the situation . |
| 11 | The only control that is n't a membrane switch is the parameter change dial , which BOSS refer to as the ‘ Shuttle Dial ’ . |
| 12 | these caused an acute attack of what I once heard referred to as ‘ the wants ’ or , in this case , ‘ I want a fine gauge knitting machine ’ ! |
| 13 | Gregory himself seems to refer to at least two : in addition to that in which he thought Clovis had been converted , he mentions a battle at Tolbiac or Zülpich where Sigibert , king of the Ripuarian Franks , was wounded . |
| 14 | It may loosely be judged to refer to at least some of the works of literature , art , philosophy , history and biography . |
| 15 | Er there are two examples along the western route corridor of sites which I do refer to in in the statement , Hildebrand Barracks at , an army camp which er is expected to be vacated in the near future , and Queen Ethelbergers which has been vacant now for for almost two years . |
| 16 | Round the corner to our right was what we journalists liked to refer to as ‘ No-Man's-Land ’ , into which no man had ventured for more than a year . |
| 17 | Er in the alternative of course er the local communities have available er the High Court action which I 've referred to during several discussions with yourselves over the last week or two . |
| 18 | And finally Chairman , budget proposals which we 've referred to in paragraph fourteen and fifteen are that in recognizing there 's a potential estimated shortfall of some seven hundred and fifty thousand , that five hundred thousand pounds be put towards that . |
| 19 | Vic Wilcox demanded , an hour or so later , when they were back in his office after what he had referred to as ‘ a quick whistle round the works ’ . |
| 20 | Among those instruments were what Van Gelder had referred to as the spy-glass . |
| 21 | How would Silas explain what she herself had referred to as an incident ? she wondered , and , looking up at him , their gaze locked . |
| 22 | With a wry shrug of her slim shoulders Laura made herself a ham sandwich before wandering back into what the estate agent 's particulars had referred to as ‘ a huge reception-room ’ . |
| 23 | In complete contrast , Debbie 's unique brew of distorted guitar noise , which she likes to refer to as ‘ pure filth ’ , comes as the result of crashing everything through as many effects as possible . |
| 24 | Ordinary adjectives , however ( which we may continue to refer to as referent-qualifiers ) , should still be serviceable since the basic requirement in their case is no more than that there should exist a referential locus which their properties can qualify , and evidence of a referential locus is given quite satisfactorily even by such a general word as one . |
| 25 | It is this which some journalists , using a phrase made popular by A.M. Klein , have referred to as his ‘ stony , Semitic stare . ’ |
| 26 | One of these which originally led to the nonprofessional but nationally-recognized Certificate of Social Service ( CCETSW , 1975 ) , has now been incorporated into a new and alternative route to a full professional social work qualification for some of the kinds of social service personnel we have referred to as paraprofessionals ( CCETSW , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | Many linguists in recent years have questioned the early assumptions of the discipline with regard to literacy and their work now serves to undermine rather than to support those arguments regarding literacy that I have referred to as the ‘ autonomous ’ model . |
| 28 | By this we do not mean to imply that any old interpretation will do because , clearly , there are standards involved in any inference from the data materials to the theory , be this a substantive sociological theory or what we have referred to as an instrumental theory . |
| 29 | The above example may appear something of a curioso , but it illustrates another example of the distinction between what we have referred to as the ‘ traditional ’ approach and the public choice approach to public finance . |
| 30 | The period of the 1940s and the 1950s was to produce what Samuel Beer has referred to as the welfare state and the managed economy , or what some commentators have referred to as the period of the social democratic consensus . |