Example sentences of "it refers [prep] the [noun] " 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 The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment .
3 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 ?
4 One question that immediately arises is whether it refers to the content of speech or to the form — the sequencing of utterances , for instance .
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 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 .
7 It refers to the resurgence of manufacturing during the 1980s and the mistaken but widespread belief that manufacturing is still shrinking .
8 It refers to the tendency to transform social relations into relations between things .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It refers to the address bus of a chip — how it receives and sends data .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Rather , it refers to the processes , categories and know ledges through which communities are defined as such : that is , how they are rendered specific and differentiated .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 From then on , it refers to the file by the number it allocated to it when it was opened .
18 The concept of cohesion is a semantic one ; it refers to the relations of meaning that exist within the text , and that define it as a text ; it occurs when the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another .
19 It refers to the fact that subjects do not engage in ideology but are ‘ always already subjects ’ .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 . "
23 Also , as a lay term , it refers to the capability of an infant to survive infancy or of a child to survive childhood .
24 It refers to the method of accounting which reports in terms of funds rather than in terms of organizations .
25 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 . )
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