Example sentences of "[vb pp] refer to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( For a more detailed review of employment law and practice than is possible here , the haulier is recommended to refer to The Penguin Guide to the Law by John Pritchard . ) |
| 2 | The nursery rhyme then , comes from Tommy Thumb 's Pretty Song Book from around seventeen forty-four , and the division of bags , one for the master , one for the dame , one for the little boy who where wherever he is , lives down the lane , is said to refer to the export tax on wool , which was imposed as far back as twelve seventy-five , making even the outsider sheep of value . |
| 3 | Now that we had decided to refer to the team leader ( who would be the care manager ) we devised a simple referral form and agreed that all communications with and from social services would be made in writing and filed in our patients ' notes . |
| 4 | In these cases we are instructed to refer to the Adjudication Officer for a decision on whether the claim to benefit should be allowed or disallowed . |
| 5 | It is extremely important , because of the price and resale differences between items from the various countries , to ask specifically whether the name used refers to the rug 's place of origin or its design . |
| 6 | DH numbers used refer to the previously described hypersensitivity sites which are present during all stages of B cell development ( 26 ) . |
| 7 | The same kind of representational language could be used to refer to the working of a television set or indeed a thermostat . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The term proactive interference is used to refer to the fact that prior learning can interfere with the acquisition , retention , or use of new information . |
| 10 | From these definitions you will see that crime and delinquency are one form of deviance ( strictly speaking , delinquency refers to anti-social and illegal behaviour , but in sociology it is usually linked with ‘ juvenile ’ and used to refer to the criminality and misconduct of youths ) . |
| 11 | Interactionist approaches to crime and deviance have centred around the concept of labelling , with the term labelling theory sometimes used to refer to the Interactionist perspective on rule-breaking . |
| 12 | But the term has also been used to refer to the work done by anthropologists who have lived with tribes they have studied . |
| 13 | That usage was not found in the classical texts , in which voluntas is not used to refer to the source of validity of a trust but as a criterion in assessing the content of a trust . |
| 14 | The term gender will be used to refer to the social construction of sexual differences . |
| 15 | Sentences in the intentional mode ( such as ( 18 ) , ( 19 ) , and ( 20 ) ) express a reason-action relation , and the verb which is used to refer to the result of the action occurs in its non-finite form ( e.g. , go ) . |
| 16 | This contrasts with sentences in the empirical mode which express an action-result relation , and in which a finite verb form ( went ) is used to refer to the result of the action : |
| 17 | The principle of local interpretation however , will guide us to construct a limited context in which ‘ the mother ’ is the mentioned baby 's mother and the expression it is used to refer to the previously mentioned baby . |
| 18 | Johns ( personal communication ) also suggests that in English science and engineering academic abstracts , the present perfect is specifically used to refer to the work of other scientists . |
| 19 | One can not refer to a behaviour pattern as inherited ( or instinctive ) or learned ; the terms can only properly be used to refer to the causes of differences between individuals . |
| 20 | Since dictionaries also contain information about the orthography ( i.e. spelling ) , phonology ( i.e. pronunciation ) and semantics ( i.e. meaning ) of words , terms such as ‘ mental dictionary ’ , ‘ internal lexicon ’ or ‘ mental lexicon ’ have been used to refer to the internalised system of knowledge we use when we perceive or produce words . |
| 21 | This term is used to refer to the consistency over time of financial reports . |
| 22 | This makes it possible to study subtle processes of coordination : for example , when words are repeated they are generally pronounced less clearly after the first time , but only if they are being used to refer to the same thing . |
| 23 | The term ‘ Staff contact ’ is used to refer to the information resource represented by the telephonist/receptionist ; the constabulary ; and the garden staff encountered by the public in the gardens . |
| 24 | The term karstification is used to refer to the process of karst landscape development . |
| 25 | Poltoranin claimed that his resignation was motivated by the need to protect Yeltsin from opposition attacks , but also referred to " a series of reasons " concerning the media , thought to refer to the dismissal of the Ostankino broadcasting company chairman [ see below ] . |
| 26 | Caro had noticed before the way her mother always avoided referring to the accident and Caro 's time in hospital , almost as if it were something obscene . |
| 27 | All weights given refer to the extra-large size or equivalent . |
| 28 | However , the Bernese Alps ‘ range ’ is generally understood to refer to the entire mountain range lying between the so-called Interlaken Valley to the north and the Rhône Valley to the south . |
| 29 | For our purposes , the executive will be understood to refer to the body of government ministers together with permanent senior officials ( bureaucrats ) who are involved in the basic decisions over what policy proposals to initiate and pursue and the priority to give them . |
| 30 | The " confrontation lines " were understood to refer to the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights . |