Example sentences of "it refers [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It refers to the damage or destruction of forty Christian churches and monasteries ( of which two are listed as Orthodox ) ; two Jewish monuments ( the Old Cemetery at Kovacic , Sarajevo , and the Synagogue , Sarajevo ) ; and forty-six Muslim buildings , comprising forty-three mosques , two schools and the Islamic Faculty of Theology at Sarajevo . |
| 2 | Well , if you look at the document , it refers to the bureaucracy , the elimination of the bureaucracy , and how is it going to be done ? |
| 3 | One question that immediately arises is whether it refers to the content of speech or to the form — the sequencing of utterances , for instance . |
| 4 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 5 | It refers to the fable of the sick lion and the wary fox , who is frightened at seeing all the footprints pointing towards the den and none the other way . |
| 6 | It refers to the resurgence of manufacturing during the 1980s and the mistaken but widespread belief that manufacturing is still shrinking . |
| 7 | It refers to the tendency to transform social relations into relations between things . |
| 8 | It refers to the reduction in the number of teachers , to cuts in the provision for children with special educational needs , to larger classes , to cuts in the expenditure on books and equipment and to the national curriculum . |
| 9 | It refers to the presence of social groups which are ranked one above the other , usually in terms of the amount of power , prestige and wealth their members possess . |
| 10 | It refers to the address bus of a chip — how it receives and sends data . |
| 11 | In its most general interpretation , the word STYLE has a fairly uncontroversial meaning : it refers to the way in which language is used in a given context , by a given person , for a given purpose , and so on . |
| 12 | Consider , for example , the following beginning to an essay entitled " Foregrounding in King Lear " : In its most general interpretation , the word " style " has a fairly uncontroversial meaning : it refers to the way in which language is used in a given context , by a particular person , for a certain purpose . |
| 13 | The term de-industrialisation has several meanings but in this section it refers to the argument that public expenditure pulls human and capital resources out of the manufacturing sector of the economy . |
| 14 | MEAN — Without further specification it refers to the arithmetic mean ( the word average is sometimes used synonymously ) ; a measure of the central tendency in the values of a variable of the population observed . |
| 15 | From then on , it refers to the file by the number it allocated to it when it was opened . |
| 16 | It refers to the fact that subjects do not engage in ideology but are ‘ always already subjects ’ . |
| 17 | Can I ju ju just raise a point where it refers to the fact that the S S A is going to be looked at again next year . |
| 18 | In the WFS surveys , it refers to the interval between the reported date of birth and the date of interview or other event measured in completed years . |
| 19 | It refers to the duty being placed on the new committee , ( a ) to monitor the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland ; and , ( b ) to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State regarding the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland . " |
| 20 | Also , as a lay term , it refers to the capability of an infant to survive infancy or of a child to survive childhood . |
| 21 | It refers to the method of accounting which reports in terms of funds rather than in terms of organizations . |
| 22 | Given Shakespeare 's unlimited verbal energies it is no surprise to find him culling ingenuity from this idea of giving and receiving , as in the dazzling wit of 24 : ( I have italicized his in line 5 since it refers to the Poet ; his in line 8 since it refers to his bosom ; and They in line 14 as referring to his eyes . ) |