Example sentences of "refer [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 2 | There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present . |
| 3 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 4 | The tentative Taif agreement , on the other hand , sets no timetable for a total Syrian withdrawal and refers only to a pull-out from the Beirut area within two years . |
| 5 | It could be argued that Lewis 's poem refers only to a failure of etiquette . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman referred also to a knife amnesty . |
| 7 | He referred specifically to a technique developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for rendering wastes into harmless salts , which I understand is in its infancy . |
| 8 | The standard molar enthalpy of a reaction is written It is essential that should refer unambiguously to a specific equation or formula . |
| 9 | The question , though , remains : given these differences , is there any sense in which we can still refer today to a single academic community ? |
| 10 | Thus the term " criterion " can refer either to a description of the knowledge and skills possessed by the learner or the score which has to be reached in order to qualify for the description . |
| 11 | The difference of interpretation is not some accidental effect arising from the combination of certain adjectives with particular nouns ; some phrases are subject to both interpretations : ( 9 ) his Italian diary might refer either to a diary which is Italian , perhaps in the sense that it was manufactured there , or to a record made during a journey through Italy . |
| 12 | The edition of Boswell 's Tour now generally available only refers obliquely to a lack of warmth , and to Boswell 's own ‘ spleen ’ while staying there — all this notwithstanding that the beautiful ( and pregnant ) Lady Macdonald was a cousin of Boswell 's . |
| 13 | If no other provision is made , ordinary Government Bills ( and other Public Bills ) will be referred automatically to a standing committee . |
| 14 | ( b ) Hybrid Bills Where a Public Bill ( dealt with below ) contains provisions which savour of a Private Bill in that they refer specifically to a particular person or locality , the House may , if it so wishes , before second reading refer the Bill to the Examiners of Petitions for Private Bills . |
| 15 | I recall the speech to which the hon. Gentleman referred and I know that he has referred before to a case similar to that which he described today . |
| 16 | This is because objectivity is usually narrowed down to refer only to a homogeneous group of organizations . |
| 17 | Hobhouse , in these paragraphs , was using the word ‘ mind ’ to refer particularly to a knowing capacity that functions in the construction of effective policies of behaviour with respect to individual and group survival and reproduction . |
| 18 | We have referred earlier to a third interpretation of normalisation which we see as being in line with the spirit of much that has been written , particularly in the earlier days . |
| 19 | None of the other Arabic sources cited refers either to a visit earlier than the one in 823 or to the presence of Mehmed Sah on this pilgrimage ; and , on the latter point , it may be significant that in the account in the Arabic sources of Molla Fenari 's departure from Egypt ( 22 Rabi " I 823/6 April 1420 ) the presence of his son-in-law , but not of his son , is mentioned . |
| 20 | Is it referring just to a triumphalistic idea of atonement in which everything is just alright in the end ? |
| 21 | I suspect Greenhill was referring specifically to a dearth in the cultural analysis of policing , while his use of the duality of ‘ sides ’ reveals another parallel binary to that of ‘ cops and robbers ’ , with the police and sociology arraigned against each other in yet another of the wars which the police wage against those who defile the sanctity of their definition of the concept of order . |
| 22 | The Greek version of Isaiah 7 uses a word which refers specifically to a virgin , whereas the underlying Hebrew simply denotes a young girl . |